No. 8 Virginia Continues ACC Road Trip At Notre Dame Sunday
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. –The No. 8 Virginia women’s soccer team (10-2-0, 3-2-0 ACC) continues its ACC road trip on Sunday (Oct. 7), traveling to face Notre Dame (6-7-0, 2-3-0 ACC) at Alumni Stadium in a 12 p.m. ET match.
The matches will air on ACC Network Extra, which is available to authenticated subscribers of ESPN3 through WatchESPN and the ESPN app. Fans can also keep up with the action through live stats linked at VirginiaSports.com or by following the program’s official Twitter account @UVAWomenSoccer.
QUICK KICKS
• UVA closes road play in the ACC on Sunday afternoon with its 12 p.m. match at Notre Dame
• To date, 12 different players have scored goals for UVA and 14 different players have assists
• Six different players have hit game-winning goals for the Cavaliers in the 10 season wins
• Freshman Rebecca Jarrett leads the Cavaliers with five goals and 11 points this season
•Virginia is averaging almost three goals per game, while its two losses were both shutouts
•Taryn Torres is the team leader in assists with five this year, UVA has 28 assists on 29 goals
LAST TIME OUT FOR THE HOOS
• UVA picked up a 1-0 victory over the Louisville Cardinals on Thursday night at Lynn Stadium
• The shutout by the Cavaliers was the first by a team over Louisville this season
• Laurel Ivory posted her fourth shutout of the season and the 13th of her career at Louisville
• Meghan McCool hit the game-winning goal for the second straight match on Thursday
• Alexa Spaanstra and Taryn Torres assisted on the game winning goal for UVA
THE SERIES WITH NOTRE DAME
• Virginia and Notre Dame have faced each other six times with UVA leading 4-1-1 all time
• The squads first met in the 1989 season then didn’t play again until the 2013 season
• Virginia won the match 2-0 in the 2014 season and 1-0 in the 2017 season at Notre Dame
A LOOK AT NOTRE DAME
• Notre Dame is 6-7 on the season and 2-3 in ACC play
• The Irish are coming off a 2-1 loss to North Carolina on Thursday
• Karin Muya is the leading goal scorer with four for the season
• Jen Westendorf leads offensive production (3 goals, 4 assists, 10 pts)
• Notre Dame has scored 16 goals this season and allowed 23 goals
• The Irish have ACC wins over #21 NC State and Wake Forest
• Brooke Littman and Mattie Interian split time in goal for the Irish
UP NEXT FOR THE CAVALIERS
• UVA returns home to host the Pittsburgh Panthers next Sunday
• The match with Pitt kicks off a four-match ACC home stand for UVA
• The four-match streak closes the regular season for the Cavaliers
• UVA closes the year with Pitt, Syracuse, Florida State and NC State
PROMOTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN RETURN HOME VS. PITTSBURGH
• Fans can take part in the fun at Klöckner Stadium with a variety of promotions
• The first 50 CavMan’s Crew members will receive a free scoop of ice cream from Ben & Jerry’s
• The first 500 fans in attendance at Klöckner Stadium will receive a free thunder stick
• Members of the Virginia women’s soccer team will sign autographs following the match