AMHERST, Mass. – The Duquesne women's soccer team goes on the road Thursday to take on the Massachusetts Minutewomen at 2:00 P.M. ET.   
The game will be broadcasted on ESPN+ and live stats will be available.
 
SERIES BREAKDOWN

• All-Time Series: Duquesne is 5-16-1 against UMass.
• First Meeting: Oct. 27, 1996 at UMass – UMass won, 1-0
• Last Meeting: Sept. 19, 2021 at DUQ – UMass won, 2-1 (OT) | Recap | Box Score
• Streak: Duquesne, L4

QUICK HITS

• Duquesne is 2-1-1 in conference play and has an overall record of 4-4-1.  
• The Dukes are coming off a 1-0 win at Richmond Thursday and a 1-0 loss to No. 10 Saint Louis Sunday.
• Freshman midfielder Mackenzie Muir scored her second goal of the season at Richmond in her return to the starting lineup.
• The Dukes tied with Saint Joseph's, 2-2, Sept. 18. Junior forward Jaimi Araujo scored her team-leading fourth goal.
• The Sept. 15 win against URI was a thriller. Araujo scored two goals while freshman forward Brianna Moore notched her first career goal.
• Araujo was named the A-10 Co-Offensive Player of the Week Sept. 19.
• Duquesne's first two wins this season were comeback wins, with the first one coming against Ohio in the Dukes' season opener Aug. 18 and the other coming at Youngstown State Aug. 25.
• Freshman forward Maya Matesa was named A-10 Rookie of the Week Aug. 22 for her performance in the first two games of the season.
• It is believed that Duquesne has more true freshmen on its team than any other D-I team in the nation with 17.
• The Dukes have nine players that have recorded a point so far through nine games. Six of those players have been freshmen.
• Sophomore goalkeeper Maddy Neundorfer has recorded the second-most saves in the A-10 so far with 63. She has made at least five saves in every match this year. Her 12 saves against Rhode Island were a career high and she recorded her first career shutout against Richmond Sept. 22.
• The Dukes are currently in fifth place in the A-10.
• 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 is still looking to get on the scoresheet in 2022.
• Araujo, who also missed time due to injury last season, scored four times and had 10 points on the season. She has four goals and a team-leading nine points through nine games so far.
• 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.

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 74-86-23 on the Bluff and 37-49-11 in Atlantic 10 play. His career mark stands at 204-150-41.
• 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 MINUTEWOMEN (ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATS)

• UMass is 2-5-5 overall and 1-1-2 in A-10 play. It currently sits in eighth place in the conference standings.
• The Minutewomen went 0-1-1 last week with a tie at Saint Joseph's and a loss at home to Dayton.
• Forward Lauren Bonavita leads the team with nine goals and 18 points. Her nine goals lead the conference.
• Goalies Bella Mendoza and Megan Olszewski have split time in net this season. Mendoza has five starts and 540 minutes played while Olszewski has seven starts and 495 minutes played.
• UMass went 11-6-4 last season and advanced to the A-10 Championship before losing to Saint Louis.
• The Minutewomen were picked to finish fifth this season in the A-10.
• Jason Dowiak is in his fifth season as the head coach at UMass. He has 40 victories to his name with the Minutewomen.

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