Marquette meets Milwaukee for 27th time on Monday

MILWAUKEE – The Marquette University women's soccer team continues its three-match homestand at 7 p.m. on Monday against Milwaukee at Valley Fields.

The match will air live on GoMarquette.com/watch at 7 p.m. in the 27th all-time meeting between the two squads.

The Golden Eagles (1-6-1) fell to BYU, 3-0, in their last match on Saturday afternoon at Valley Fields after being outshot 19-6. Redshirt senior Carrie Madden leads Marquette into the match with a team-high two goals, while junior goalkeeper Maddy Henry has played 732 of 740 minutes in net.

The Panthers (7-0), who are receiving votes in the United Soccer Coaches Poll, own a 2-1 win over DePaul on Sept. 2 and defeated Iowa State, 3-2, in overtime on Sept. 9. They are one of six schools in the country without a loss or tie and it is the first time since 2011 that they have recorded wins in each of their first seven contests.

Haley Johnson has posted 11 points (three goals, five assists) to lead UWM, which is coming off a 2017 campaign in which it went 16-0-4 and fell in the championship match of the Horizon League Tournament to IUPUI on penalty kicks, 4-3.

Milwaukee defeated Youngstown State, 1-0, on Friday evening in its Horizon League opener. Mackenzie Schill scored the lone goal in the 34th minute and the Panthers held the Penguins off the board for the win.

Marquette dropped last season's matchup 2-1 against the Panthers at Engelmann Stadium as then-junior Jamie Kutey posted the lone goal for MU in the 86th minute. That tally snapped a 917:25 scoreless streak for UWM keeper Mallory Geurts, which ranks as the ninth-best mark in NCAA Division I history.

MILWAUKEE SERIES IS LONGEST IN MU HISTORY
• Due to severe weather in the Milwaukee area, the annual match against the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was postponed from Sunday, Aug. 26 and will now be contested on Monday, Sept. 17 at Valley Fields at 7 p.m. Central time. Marquette has met local foe Milwaukee 26 times in program history, more than any other opponent over the squad's first 25 seasons of competition. The two teams have meet in each of the last 25 years during the regular season, while Marquette claimed the lone NCAA tournament matchup, 1-0, in 2005 at Valley Fields. MU is 0-2-2 in the last four meetings after going 4-0-1 in the five meetings from 2009-13. Marquette's last victory in the series was a 5-0 win at Milwaukee on Sept. 23, 2013 and the Golden Eagles and Panthers have each won nine matches and played to a total of eight draws. The two teams are also an even 5-5-3 all-time at Marquette.

MARQUETTE EARNS FIRST WIN AT DRAKE
• Leah Celarek and Alyssa Bombacino each scored their first goals of the year on Sept. 9 as Marquette picked up its first victory of the season at Drake, 2-1. The win snapped a six-match winless stretch to start the year for the Golden Eagles, their longest stretch to begin a season without a win in program history. MU posted an 18-3 advantage in shots against the Bulldogs and Bombacino's match winner was the first point of her career.