Oregon State Heads to Portland for Mid-Week Game

Wednesday, February 10

Portland, OR

3:00 PM

Oregon State

Portland

Photo by: Dave Nishitani/Oregon State Athletics

February 09, 2021 | Women's Soccer

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By: Athletic Communications

CORVALLIS, Ore. - The Oregon State women's soccer team continues its non-conference slate with a road game at Portland, Wednesday afternoon.

MATCH INFORMATION
Oregon State at Portland
DATE: Wednesday, February 10
TIME: 3:00 PM PST
SITE: Harry A. Merlo Field - Portland, Ore.
RECORDS: Oregon State 1-0, 0-0 Pac-12; Portland 0-0, 0-0 West Coast
SERIES RECORD: Portland leads, 25-4-2
STREAM: PortlandPilots.com
STATS: PortlandPilots.com

Oregon State notes (coming soon) | Portland notes (coming soon)

LAST WEEK IN REVIEW
• Oregon State opened the season with a win over Idaho, 3-0.
• Junior Laura Galceran opened the scoring in the 19th minute after receiving a pass from sophomore Brianna McReynolds.
• Junior Sydney Studer added to the Beavers' lead with a header, off senior Kaillen Fried's corner kick, in the 29th minute.
• Just over 10 minutes into the second half, McReynolds scored a goal of her own with a powerful free kick.
• Oregon State led in shots, 11-5, shots on goal, 3-2, and saves, 2-0, against the Vandals.

ABOUT THE BEAVERS
• Oregon State will host seven home games in Corvallis.
• OSU returns 10 starters from 2019.
• The Beavers are scheduled to face five opponents currently ranked in the top 25 on Top Drawer Soccer, including two in the top five.
• Two players earned All-Pac-12 honors following the 2019 season, both of which will be returning (Weinert - third team, McReynolds - freshman team).
• Oregon State placed nine players on the Pac-12 Fall Honor Roll, including seven players that will be returning to the squad this season (Deane, Ellsworth, Fried, Gorzynski, Nickerson, Skiba, Weinert).

FIRST POINTS
• Junior Laura Galceran scored her first career goal to open the season.
• Sophomore Brianna McReynolds notched her second career game with three or more points.

PAC-12 TEAM RANKINGS
After the first week of games, Oregon State ranks:
• tied for first with 0.00 GAA
• third with a .273 shot percentage
• fourth with 11.0 shots per game

PAC-12 INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS
Kaillen Fried
• tied for third with 1.00 assists per game

Laura Galceran
• tied for third with 1.00 goals per game

Brianna McReynolds
• tied for third with 1.00 goals per game
• tied for third with 1.00 assists per game
• tied for third with 3.00 points per game

Bridgette Skiba
• tied for first with a 1.00 save percentage
• tied for first with a 0.00 goals against average

Sydney Studer
• tied for third with 1.00 goals per game
• tied for first with a 1.00 shot percentage

ABOUT PORTLAND
• The Pilots finished the 2019 season with a 6-6-5 record.
• Portland graduated 11 seniors in 2020.
• The Pilots welcomed eight newcomers to the 2020 squad with one senior returning for another season.
• Portland played Lewis & Clark in an exhibition match on Saturday, Feb. 6. The Pilots won 8-0 with goals scored by Taryn Ries (x3), Selma Licina (x2), Gabi Brummett (x1), Jamie Rita (x1), and MJ Roe (x1).

AGAINST THE PILOTS
• Portland leads the all-time series, 25-4-2.
• The Beavers last played Portland at home in 2018. Oregon State could not find the back of the net and lost 3-0 to the Pilots.
• OSU last saw a win against Portland three matches ago. Before losing, 1-0, in 2017, the Beavers found a 2-1 victory over the Pilots in 2016. Then-junior Natalie Higgins and then-sophomore Toni Malone each scored the goals for the win.

A LOOK BACK AT 2019
• OSU posted a final record of 11-6-2 and a 3-6-2 conference record.
• As a sophomore, Bridgette Skiba recorded 69 saves on the season, which was the sixth-most in the Pac-12.
• Skiba posted all seven shutouts for the Beavers.
• Five players started every game on the season - Madison Ellsworth, Marley Salveter, Bridgette Skiba, Sydney Studer, and McKenzie Weinert.
• Studer (1768) and Ellsworth (1756) led the team in playing minutes on the 2019 season.
• McKenzie Weinert led the Beavers with 21 points and nine goals.
• Brianna McReynolds led OSU with five assists.
• Six Beavers return after scoring at least one goal last season - Conrad (2), Fried (2), McReynolds (5), Schwartz (5), Studer (3), Weinert (9).
• 13 returning players competed in at least 13 games on the 2019 season.

THE ROSTER
• The Beavers have two seniors on the 2020-21 squad - Kaillen Fried and Nicole Nickerson.
• There were 13 additions to the team with the arrivals of one transfer, Melissa Symmes, and 12 freshmen - Jazy Campbell, Hailey Coll, Isobel Herrod, Amber Jackson, Gwen Jacobs, Bryana Pizarro, Aubrie Rasheed, Haley Richardson, Alyssa Romero, Valerie Tobias, Anna Wagner, Gaelle Wells.
• 14 of the returning soccer players competed in at least one game in the last season.
• OSU has 10 players that hail from Oregon - Fried (Sherwood), Weinert (Milwaukie), Gorzynski (Corvallis), Skiba (Portland), Ellsworth (Hillsboro), Brown (Happy Valley), Conrad (West Linn), Tetz (Happy Valley), Salveter (Sandy), Coll (Eugene).
• The Beavers have two teammates from outside the United States - Laura Galceran (Barcelona, Spain) and Abby Schwartz (Port Moody, British Columbia).
• Outside of Oregon, the team has 17 players that represent seven different states. California is the most represented with 11 players while Indiana, Minnesota, New York, Texas, Virginia, and Washington all hold one player's hometown.

ABOUT HEAD COACH MATT KAGAN
• The 2020-21 season is Matt Kagan's second year coaching at Oregon State.
• In his first season as head coach of the Beavers, Kagan improved OSU from a 2-17 record with a 1-10 conference record in 2018 to an 11-6-2, 3-6-2 finish in 2019.
• Kagan joined Oregon State after spending two years with Mississippi State as the associate head coach. In his first season at MSU, the Bulldogs had the best program record in 16 years.
• Kagan has been a member of nine coaching staffs that have led teams to the NCAA Tournament - three of those teams have advanced to the Sweet 16.

UP NEXT
• The Beavers will open Pac-12 play at home. On Feb 26, OSU will host California before welcoming Stanford to Lorenz Field on Feb. 28.

For more information on the Oregon State women's soccer team, visit OSUBeavers.com or follow the club on Twitter and Instagram, @BeaverWSoccer.

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