PITTSBURGH – The Duquesne women's soccer team travels to Youngstown, Ohio Thursday to battle the Youngstown State Penguins at 7:00 p.m. ET.
 
The game will be broadcasted on ESPN+ and live stats will be available.
 
SERIES BREAKDOWN

• All-Time Series: Duquesne, 9-1-2
• First Meeting: Sept. 25, 1996 at Duquesne – Duquesne won, 4-0
• Last Meeting: Sept. 5, 2021 at Duquesne – Duquesne won, 2-1 I Recap | Box Score
• Streak: Duquesne, W2

QUICK HITS

• DU opened its season this past Thursday with a 2-1, comeback victory against Ohio.
• It is believed that Duquesne has more true freshman on its team than any other D-I team in the nation with 17.
• Senior midfielder Sarah Wilkinson and freshman forward Maya Matesa scored the goals to give Duquesne its season-opening win.
• Matesa was named A-10 Rookie of the Week Monday for her performance in the first two games.
• The Dukes then traveled to #14 Penn State and dropped their first match of the season Sunday.
• Duquesne was picked to finish in 10th place by the league's coaches, tied with George Washington, in the annual Atlantic 10 women's soccer preseason poll. 
• The Dukes return eight starters from the 2021 season, including five of their top six scorers. 
• Sophomore forward Emma Bundy led the team and ranked third in the A-10 with 1.33 points per game and 0.556 goals per game despite playing just nine games due to injury. She made her season debut Sunday, playing 22 minutes.
• Junior forward Jaimi Araujo, who also missed time due to injury last season, scored four times and had 10 points on the season. She has an assist through two games so far.
• Sophomore defender Karley Steinher missed the last six games of the season, but still managed to rack up nine points and three goals last year. She has played 160 minutes through two games, the second-most on the team.
• Senior defender Ashley Rodriguez started all 16 games last year and tallied the most minutes on the team with 1,483. She scored on two penalty kicks in 2021.
• The Dukes averaged 1.188 goals per game last season, which ranked fifth in the A-10.
• Duquesne ranked fourth in the A-10 with 6.00 shots on-goal per game and fifth with 11.69 shots per game.
• The team was disciplined in 2021, committing the second-least number of fouls in the conference with 129.

DUQUESNE HEAD COACH AL ALVINE (Robert Morris '92)

• Al Alvine is in his 11^th season as the head coach of the Dukes in 2022.
• The Dukes' all-time winningest coach boasts a record of 71-83-22 on the Bluff and 35-48-10 in Atlantic 10 play. His career mark stands at 201-148-40.
• Alvine inherited a three-win team prior to the 2012 season and quadrupled that total in four years. 
• He set a program record with 12 victories in 2015 – which included the program's first-ever A-10 Championship and NCAA Tournament bid.
• His teams have totaled 11 or more wins three times during his tenure.
• Alvine has coached four First-Team and three Second-Team All-Atlantic 10 picks, including 2017 A-10 Midfielder of the Year Linnea Faccenda.
• He was named the fifth head coach in Duquesne women's soccer history on December 29, 2011.
• Alvine came to the Bluff after spending five seasons as head coach at California University of Pennsylvania, where he went 72-28-11 – including a 38-2-6 mark over his final two seasons with the Vulcans. 

SCOUTING THE PENGUINS (ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATS)

• Youngstown State has started the season 0-2 with two one-goal losses to Akron and Valparaiso.
• The Penguins have yet to score this season.
• YSU was picked to finish in ninth-place in the Horizon League this year.
• Sophomore defender Maddie Angelo returns for the Penguins and was named to the 2021 Horizon League All-Freshman Team.
• Two of the Penguins' top three leading scorers from last year return – senior forward Abriana Rondin and senior forward Regan LaVigna.
• The 2021 season ended with the Penguins in ninth in the standings, a 2-11-5 overall record and a 2-5-4 record in the Horizon League.
• Head coach Brian Shrum is in his fifth season leading YSU. He took over there after spending six seasons at Duquesne, including time as the associate head coach under Alvine.
•  The Dukes went on to have an overall record of 34-22-7 and an 18-10-2 mark in Atlantic-10 play during Shrum's time on the Bluff.

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