Oregon State Hits the Road for Pac-12 Play

Thursday, September 27

Seattle, WA

7:00 PM

Oregon State

Washington

September 25, 2018 | Women's Soccer

Match Notes

Oregon State will face Washington Thursday and No. 9 Washington State Sunday.

By: Athletic Communications

The Games: Oregon State women's soccer team heads north for two Pac-12 match-ups against Washington and No. 9 Washington State on Thursday and Sunday.

Follow Along: Washington will live stream the game on Thursday. Sunday's game will air on the Pac-12 Network with Elise Woodward on the call. Both live stats and the link for the live streams for the games can be found at OSUBeavers.com. Twitter updates for all Oregon State games can be found @BeaverWSoccer.

What's Coming Up: Oregon State returns home to host California (Oct. 4 at 7 p.m.) and Stanford (Oct. 7 at 3 p.m.).

History with the Huskies:

Washington holds a 9-16-4 series lead over Oregon State.
The last meeting between the two teams in 2017 resulted in a double-overtime tie, 0-0.

History with the Cougars:

The Beavers took a 1-0 double-overtime win over the Cougars in 2017.
Washington State currently leads the series between the two teams with the overall results being 11-14-3.

Starting XI:

The Beavers have had three athletes start every game this season (Malone, Skiba and Studer).
Two of these starters are freshmen (Skiba and Studer).
Against Colorado, Diana Santiago made her first OSU career start.
Ashleigh Fonsen, Allison Pantuso and Emery Wallerich have all seen time in eight games this season. They have started every game they have seen time in.
There have been 15 different starters this season.

Quick Hitters:

Oregon State has committed the 12th-most fouls in the NCAA this season, with 12.44 per game.
Oregon State ended the 2017 season with back-to-back wins over Utah and Oregon.
OSU scored 10 goals last season, the fewest total since 2014.
The Beavers committed the fewest amount of fouls during the 2017 season that they have committed in the last decade.
Oregon State made the least shot attempts in the Pac-12 last season, with an average of 10.37 per match. Currently averaging 8.33 per match this season.
OSU placed 14 players on the Pac-12 All-Academic team last season, including seven players that will return to the squad this season (Fonsen, Lemmond, Nickerson, Pantuso, Santiago, Wallerich and Witherington).

The Newcomers:

The team welcomes 11 newcomers to the roster for the 2018 season, 10 freshmen and one transfer.
Seven newcomers have seen time in the first eight matches of the season (Brown, Liddell, Hackbarth, Keawekane, MacDonald, Skiba and Studer).
Bridgette Skiba leads leads the team in minutes played with 817:34. Sydney Studer follows her with 800.
Bridgette Skiba leads the Pac-12 with 47 saves on the season as of Sept. 24.
Helena Brown recorded her first career goal as a Beaver against Gonzaga.
Junior transfer Erica MacDonald made her OSU debut against Portland.
These 11 span from two countries (United States and Jamaica) and four different states (Oregon, California, Hawaii and Washington).

The Returners

Redshirt freshman McKenzie Weinert has scored two goals this season in back-to-back games (vs. Dartmouth - first career goal, and vs. Texas Tech).
Senior Kate Evans recorded the first goal for the Beavers in the 2018 season off a free kick against Stony Brook.
Mylene Gorzynski made her OSU debut against Colorado.
Allison Pantuso returns for her senior year after leading the 2017 team in the minute's category with 1723.
The Beavers return four athletes who scored a goal last season (Leblic, Lemmond, O'Connor and Santiago).
Diana Santiago is the only returner who recorded a goal and an assist last season.

The Staff:

Head Coach Linus Rhode is entering his 11^th season at the helm of the Oregon State women's soccer team, and is looking to lead the Beavers to their fourth NCAA tournament appearances under his watch.
Rhode has 87 career wins at Oregon State, which ranks first for the most wins in Oregon State history.
Prior to becoming a head coach, Rhode was an assistant and associate coach for the Beavers for eight seasons.
The Beavers enter their second season with Michelle Voiland as the associate head coach after being a longtime assistant with the program.
Vanessa Valentine returns for her second season as assistant coach.

The Schedule:

Oregon State has faced three top-25 teams so far this season (No. 18 Kansas (Aug. 24), No. 25 Texas Tech (Sept. 9) and No. 23 Colorado (Sept. 21).
Ten of Oregon State's 19 matches will be home games, including five of its eight nonconference contests.
Four of Oregon State's nonconference opponents came from power conferences.
The Beavers took on foes from six different conferences in non-league play. OSU faced two teams from the Big 12, two from the West Coast, and one each from the ACC, Big 10, American East and Ivy League.
The Beavers will be on TV nine times this year, with their fourth Pac-12 Network appearances coming against Washington State.

Beavs in the Pros:

Jodie Taylor currently plays for Seattle Reign FC.
Taylor recently helped Melbourne City FC win the 2017/18 Westfield W-League Championships.
Was a member of England's Euro 2017 squad, scoring the winning goal to send the Lionesses to the semi-finals.
Recently nominated for the Best International Women's Soccer Player at the 2018 ESPYs.
Rachel Axon currently plays for Kolbotn Fotball in the Norwegian league.
Greta Espinoza plays for the Spanish club Levante.
Espinoza was a member of the Mexico National Team who recently won a gold medal at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, Columbia.
Bella Geist was picked in the third round (29^th overall) by the Portland Thorns in the 2018 draft.
Geist recently signed a contract with 1. FFC Frankfurt in Germany.
Emma Jones recently signed a contract to play for the Linkopings FC in Sweden.
Natalie Higgins signed a contract on Sept. 16 to play for Ravenna Women in Italy.

Last Week: Oregon State vs. No. 23 Colorado:

Final score: Oregon State - 0, Colorado - 6.
McKenzie Weinert led the team in shots with six.
Six other players recorded at least one shot (Leblic - 2; Brown, Evans, Fried, Malone and O'Connor - 1).
Bridgette Skiba had five saves.
Mylene Gorzynski saw her first action of the 2018 season during this game.

For updates on Oregon State women's soccer, follow the team on Twitter or Instagram @BeaverWSoccer.

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