SMU Women's Soccer

**Game Notes**
Macalester's Grace King scored the game's only goal early in the first half as Macalester snapped SMU's season-opening eight-game winning streak with a 1-0 victory in the teams' regular-season meeting a year ago. … The Cardinals are coming off their most impressive offensive performance of the season, as SMU routed Alverno 9-0 Thursday. … The Scots, meanwhile, extended their season-opening unbeaten streak to seven last Sunday, battling Luther to a 0-0 nonconference tie. It was the second tie during Macalester’s 5-0-2 current season-opening run.

Cardinal Notes

Melisa
Entinger
Team-leading
7 goals

The Cardinals are looking to snap a nine-game losing streak and a 10-game winless streak (0-9-1) vs. Macalester. SMU’s last win vs. the Scots was a 1-0 win in 1995. … Bridgette Baggio (Prospect Heights, Ill.) and Melisa Entinger (Mound, Minn.) netted two goals and Melissa Paulson (Ham Lake, Minn.) had a goal and two assists in SMU’s 9-0 rout of Alverno Thursday. … Mariana Sanchez (Puebla, Mexico) scored her first career goal in Thursday’s win. … Entinger’s two goals give her a team-leading seven for the season. … Entinger’s seven goals are the most since Amy Cory netted a team-best 14 in 18 games in 2004. The SMU freshman also leads the team with 14 points. … Paulson shares the team lead in assists (5) with Keirra Metcalfe (Pickering, Ontario). … Four of the Cardinals’ seven wins have come by shutout. … SMU is now 17-0-0 in its last 17 nonconference games, dating back to a 1-0 loss to Simpson on Sept. 11, 2004. … The Cardinals have scored 18 goals in the first half and 18 in the second en route to their 36 goals, while all four of SMU’s opponent’s goals have come in the first half. … SMU has not allowed more than one goal in any game this season. … The Cardinals have gotten scoring from 14 different players and 16 different players have at least one point.

**Scot Notes**
The Scots have an overall unbeaten streak of 34 straight matches (29-0-5) — the longest in the nation. This streak includes being eliminated on penalty kick shootouts in both the ’04 and ’05 NCAA playoffs. … The Scots are unbeaten in their last 27 regular-season conference games (25-0-2 since an ’03 loss at Saint Benedict). Against MIAC foes — including playoffs — Macalester is unbeaten in 32 straight (29-0-3). … The Scots have trailed in a game just once in their last 34 matches. That was when Edgewood took a 1-0 lead over Macalester earlier this season. Previously, they had not trailed since losing an overtime decision to DePauw (Ind.) late in the ’04 season. … MIAC Player of the Year and two-time All-America forward Annie Borton is in a three-way tie for second place on the school’s all-time goal-scoring list and needs just one more goal to become Macalester’s second 50-goal scorer. … Macalester has surrendered just four goals in its last 21 games. … The Scots have collected three hat tricks this season — two from Annie Borton and one by Grace King. The Macalester duo has accounted for 13 of the team’s 20 goals. … GK Jenny Lee owns a 0.32 goals- against-average. … Macalester is ranked No. 16 nationally by the NSCAA and second to UW-Eau Claire in the Central Region. … Macalester is going for its eighth MIAC championship in 10 years.