Women’s soccer plays Sunday matinee at Seton Hall

SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey – The Marquette University women's soccer team continues its East Coast swing against Seton Hall on Sunday, Oct. 13 at Owen T. Carroll Field in South Orange, New Jersey.

The match at Seton Hall will air live at noon CT on Pirates Sports Network through Seton Hall's athletics website, SHUPirates.com.

The Golden Eagles are 7-1-1 against Seton Hall and have posted three consecutive wins against the Pirates since a 1-0 loss on an own goal in 2015.

Following the match in New Jersey, Marquette returns to Milwaukee to host Villanova on Sunday, Oct. 20.

MARQUETTE (4-8-1): The Golden Eagles have earned points in each of their last two BIG EAST matches after dropping their first two league contests to then-No. 12 Georgetown and Providence … MU earned a 1-1 draw against Creighton on Oct. 6 and a remarkable 3-2 comeback win in double overtime at St. John's on Oct. 10 … MU has scored in five of its last six matches after beginning the season with just three goals in its first seven games … Five of its first seven games overall were decided 1-0 … MU earned its first win of the season on Sept. 1, courtesy of Kylie Sprecher's 108th minute goal in double overtime … Sprecher's score was MU's first goal of the year, ending a stretch of 379:36 to start the year without a tally ... BIG EAST All-Preseason Team selection Katrina Wetherell posted her first goal of the year against the Bluejays on Sunday in the 51th minute to push the match to extra time.

LAST TIME OUT: Marquette posted a season best three goals in a 3-2 double overtime victory at St. John's on Thursday evening after trailing 2-0 at the half. Zsani Kajan scored both goals for the Red Storm before freshman Alex Campana tallied MU's first score in the 61st minute. Sprecher landed the equalizer in the 82nd minute and Macey Shock posted the match winner on a golden goal in the 101st. MU held an 11-6 edge in shots and posted five of the game's six corner kicks.

SETON HALL (1-9-1): The Pirates have scored just five goals through 11 matches this season with two coming from Laura Hooper, who posted SHU's lone score in a 5-1 loss to Villanova on Thursday … SHU's lone victory of the season came on Thursday, Aug. 29 against Lafayette, 1-0, and the squad has gone 0-8-1 since that triumph … The Pirates have been outscored 14-1 in BIG EAST action ... Head coach Ciara Crinion is in her first season after serving as associate head coach at Hartford.

SHOCK SPARKS THE MU OFFENSE
• Sophomore Macey Shock played her first two matches of the season on the weekend of Sept. 20 and provided a needed offensive spark for the Golden Eagles. MU had scored just three goals entering the match against NIU and Shock scored two of MU's three goals against the Huskies and Colorado State. Shock's first career goal in the 87th minute pushed the match against NIU to overtime and she provided the equalizer in the eventual win over the Rams in the 77th minute.

• The Dublin, Ohio native also posted the match winner in the 101st minute of the Oct. 10 match at St. John's as MU rallied from a 2-0 hole for a 3-2 overtime victory.

GOLDEN EAGLES EARN UNITED SOCCER COACHES TEAM ACADEMIC AWARD
• The Marquette women's soccer team earned the United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award for the 2018-19 academic year, marking the 11th consecutive year and 22nd season overall that the squad has been honored. The Golden Eagles recorded a team cumulative grade-point average of 3.496 last year.

WETHERELL RETURNS AFTER ALL-BIG EAST CAMPAIGN
• Sophomore Katrina Wetherell, who was a BIG EAST All-Preseason Team selection in August, notched her first goal of the year, the equalizer, against Creighton on Oct. 6. Wetherell led the team as a freshman in 2018 with four assists while starting every match in the midfield. She earned All-BIG EAST Second Team honors as a rookie in addition to all-freshman accolades.

GOLDEN EAGLES BEGIN 15TH BIG EAST SEASON
• Marquette played its first season as a BIG EAST member in 2005 and is in its 15th year of conference action. The Golden Eagles have accumulated a record of 98-33-14 in BIG EAST action, which includes six regular season conference titles and a pair of tournament championships in 2012 and 2013. MU went a remarkable 39-1-1 in BIG EAST play in the four seasons from 2010-13.

STARTING LINEUP SOLIDIFIES
• Marquette head coach Markus Roeders has used a different starting lineup for 10 of the 13 matches so far in 2019, but the lineup has remained the same in each of the last three contests. Senior defender Bri Jaeger is the only player to have started every game, while Kylie Sprecher, Maddy Henry, Emily Hess and Katrina Wetherell have started all but one match. The Sept. 29 game at Georgetown was the first time this season that MU used a lineup it had used previously.

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