BROOKLYN, N.Y. --- After opening the season with a season-long five-game road slate, the LIU Brooklyn women's soccer team will host its first two home matches at LIU Field this weekend - against Siena College on Friday, September 8 at 6 p.m. and Manhattan College on Sunday, September 10 at 1 p.m.
LAST TIME OUT
Redshirt senior Jenn Peters scored LIU's second goal of the year in the team's 2-1 loss to North Florida on Sunday. UNF scored in the third minute and 24th minutes and Peters put the Blackbirds on the board with an unassisted tally 23 seconds later. The native of Slate Hill, N.Y. was able to quickly slip past the defense and beat UNF keeper Rhiannon Conelley with a shot to the lower left side of the goal. Peters led LIU with three shots, all of which were on goal. Freshman Megan Virgin made her first career start in goal and logged the team's second-highest save total of the year with nine stops in 90 minutes.
GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION
The Blackbirds will be looking to win its first home opener since 2015. LIU defeated Saint Peter's, 5-2, with current junior Marian Awad scoring one of the team's five goals. That tally was the most the team has recorded in the last two seasons.
SCOUTING SIENA AND MANHATTAN
Siena enters Friday's matchup with a 3-2 record after a 2-1 double overtime victory over Vermont on Wednesday. Senior Madison Vasquez leads the team in scoring (three goals, six points) while senior Michele Tremblay and junior Gabby Albano each have one goal and two assists on the season. LIU is currently 0-3 all-time against the Saints, with the teams' last meeting coming on September 11 of last season.
Manhattan comes into the weekend with a 1-3-1 record and will take on VMI Friday before facing LIU. The Jaspers have three players each that have scored one goal and made one assist, led by Arianna Montefusco and Nicole Copping, who have started all five games. LIU leads the all-time series with Manhattan, 3-2, and have gone 1-1 in the team's last two meetings (won last meeting in Brooklyn, 3-1, on September 10, 2002.