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CONFERENCE PLAY CONTINUES
The Southern Connecticut State University field hockey team plays two Northeast-10 Conference games this week. The Owls travel to No. 10 nationally ranked Merrimack on Wednesday afternoon before a Saturday night home game against Franklin Pierce.

ALL-TIME VERSUS MERRIMACK
The Owls lead the all-time series with the Warriors, 16-12.

THE LAST MEETING WITH MERRIMACK
Audrey Dolloff made a dozen saves, but the Southern Connecticut State University field hockey team lost to Merrimack College, 7-0, in a Northeast-10 Conference contest on Oct. 25, 2014.
• Merrimack was led by a hat trick from Nicole Bradley. She opened the scoring 6:08 into play. Sydney Bowker, Bradley and Lindsay Dobecki then followed with goals in a span of 6:45 later in the opening half to build a 4-0 lead. That was the score at halftime.
• Katie Bishop, Taylor Simpson and Bradley scored goals in a span of 2:41 early in the second half to close out the scoring and make it a 7-0 final.

ALL-TIME VERSUS FRANKLIN PIERCE
Franklin Pierce leads the all-time series with the Owls, 16-15.

THE LAST MEETING WITH FRANKLIN PIERCE
Despite a pair of goals from Bailey McGinnis, the Southern Connecticut State University field hockey team dropped a 4-3 decision to Franklin Pierce on Sept. 9, 2015. The Owls held a 3-1 lead at halftime before the host Ravens scored three second half goals to secure the win.
• Two goals in a stretch of 2:53 midway through the first half gave SCSU an early cushion. Bailey McGinnis opened the scoring with an unassisted goal before Zoe Fanolis connected off an assist from Emma Farrel.
• After a FPU goal from Carly Canavan, McGinnis netted her second of the night to extend the lead to 3-1 at the intermission.
• The Ravens trimmed the deficit to a goal just over three minutes into the second half on a goal from Chelsea Burnell. Canavan tied the game with 22:30 remaining before Burnell tacked on the game-winner with 11:49 left.
• Goalie Audrey Dolloff made 11 saves in the contest.

LAST TIME OUT
Senior Lauren Anderson found the back of the net just 4:51 into play and classmate Audrey Dolloff turned away nine shots as the Southern Connecticut State University field hockey team shut out Southern New Hampshire last Friday evening, 1-0.
• Anderson netted her first goal of the year in the opening minutes. She took a deflected pass and stickhandled through the legs of a SNHU defender before lifting a shot over the right shoulder of the Penmen keeper.
• SNHU had a chance to tie the game a short while later, but after two saves by Dolloff, Alicia Morgan cleared a ball off the line to keep SCSU ahead. Dolloff had seven of her nine saves in the first half.

OWLS ON THEIR WAY
SCSU needed just 10 games this year to surpass its win total from all of last year.

DOLLOFF MATCHES CAREER HIGH
Audrey Dolloff has posted two shutouts already this season, matching a single-season high in that department. She also posted two shutouts during her freshman season in 2012.

ONE TO NOTHING
Final scores of 1-0 have not been commonplace around the Owls' program for the better part of the past decade, either on the plus or minus side. In fact, this season marks the first time since 2006 that the Owls have registered two 1-0 victories in the same campaign. It's also the first time since 2006 that SCSU has played in at least three games during a year with that score - the 2006 team played four 1-0 games and was 2-2 that year.

FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING (OR IN A WHILE)...
A few takeaways from the win over AIC:
• Zoe Fanolis netted her first collegiate game-winning goal.
• Sadie Young posted her first collegiate goal.
• Southern earned a win in its conference opener for the second time in the last three years.
• For the first time this year, the Owls had separate players score each goals in a contest in which they netted more than a single tally. Colleen Murphy had three goals in the win over Mansfield, while Bailey McGinnis had two goals in the loss to Franklin Pierce.

MCGINNIS RECORDS ANOTHER MULTI-GOAL GAME
Bailey McGinnis notched the fourth multiple-goal game of her collegiate career with two tallies in the game against Franklin Pierce.

DOLLOFF STARTS STRONG
Audrey Dolloff helped the Owls to a season opening split in a pair of games against Mansfield and No. 4 nationally ranked Shippensburg. Dolloff played the first 58:42 of action to earn the win against Mansfield and stopped all three shots she saw in the net. The following day, Dolloff kept the Owls right with the high-powered Raiders, stopping 20 shots in a 2-0 defeat.

MURPHY HAS A CAREER DAY
Senior Colleen Murphy kicked off the 2015 season in style, scoring her first career hat trick in the win over Mansfield.

JACKSON GETS INTO THE MIX
Freshman Alicia Jackson registered her first point as an Owl with an assist in the game against Mansfield.

THE CAPTAINS
Head Coach Kelley Frassinelli has announced that seniors Lauren Anderson and Audrey Dolloff, along with junior Meghan Davis will serve as the Owls team captains for the 2015 season.

WELCOME TO THE CLUB 
The Owls welcome nine newcomers to the squad for the 2015 season - Madison Cole, Alicia Jackson, Kelli McCombs, Amanda Oberly, Kya O'Donnell, Natalia Prukalski, Emily Stross, Jacqueline Touzos and Sadie Young.

IN THE NORTHEAST-10 PRESEASON POLL
The Owls have been selected 10th in the 2014 Northeast-10 Preseason Poll.

2015 NE-10 Field Hockey Coaches Preseason Poll
1. LIU Post - 135 (5)
2. Adelphi - 127 (2)
3. Stonehill - 125 (4)
4. Merrimack - 97
5. Bentley - 89
6. Assumption - 88
7. American Int'l - 82 (1)
8. Saint Anselm - 77
9. Saint Michael's - 69 (1)
10. So. Connecticut - 44
11. Franklin Pierce - 41
12. So. New Hampshire - 28
13. Pace - 12

DOLLOFF RANKS AMONG NCAA LEADERS
Audrey Dolloff finished the 2014 season ranked No. 3 in Division II with an average of 11.0 saves per game and was also 20th in save percentage (.731).

TEN OWLS EARN NFHCA ACADEMIC HONORS
SCSU had 10 student-athletes receive recognition from the NFHCA for academic success in 2014-15: Emily Allen, Lauren Anderson, Kimberly Driscoll, Zoe Fanolis, Erica Martino, Bailey McGinnis, Alicia Morgan, Colleen Murphy, Vienna Pallisco and Ashley Sanzaro.

TEAM CAPTURES NFHCA ACADEMIC TEAM LAURELS
For the seventh year in a row, the Southern Connecticut State University field hockey team was recognized with National Academic Team honors from the National Field Hockey Coaches Association. The National Academic Team Award recognizes those institutions that achieved a minimum GPA of 3.0 during the first semester of the 2014-15 academic year. In total, the Owls were one of 20 programs at the Division II level to be recognized with this honor.

ON DECK
The Owls are back in action on Oct. 14 for a home game against LIU-Post.