ARCATA – Seven seniors – Kelly Sandberg, Anna Erway, Arielle Kern, Danielle Drucker, Kim Carroll, Tamlyn Tsubota and Sarah Nakamoto – will be honored on Friday afternoon as the Humboldt State women's soccer team (3-11-0, 3-9-0 CCAA) returns to northern California for its final home match of the 2010 season.
HSU will also be opening its new soccer facility on the corner of 14th Street and LK Wood Boulevard. With the new facility a new start time has been announced. The women's game will begin at approximately 12:30 p.m. following Senior Day activities. On Sunday the Jacks and Seawolves reconvene in Rohnert Park for game two of this annual home-and-home series.
Last week HSU traveled to the Los Angeles area and dropped a pair of 0-2 results. On Friday they were the victims at Cal State Dominguez Hills and again on Sunday at Cal State Los Angeles.
Live Stats
All Lumberjack home soccer matches can be tracked online by using the Live Stats feature on hsujacks.com. Real time statistics and other information are featured on the game viewer. The feature can be found at: http://www.sidearmstats.com/humboldt/msoc/.
Head-to-Head
Sonoma State holds a 12-6-2 lead in the all-time against the Lumberjacks. The teams split last year's home-and-home series to end the season. Each side took the game on its home field. HSU, 3-1, in Arcata and the Seawolves, 2-1, in Rohnert Park. As members of the CCAA, SSU is 5-1-1 against the Jacks with the one HSU win coming last season.
Johnson's Comments
“Like us, Sonoma State has been struggling with injuries. It's surprising that their only three conference goals came in one game against (CSU) Monterey Bay. They are having trouble finding the back of the net, but defensively are keeping games close.”… “For us the question is what Humboldt State team is going to show up. We have played poorly and still been in games. What if we had shown up and played well? Could we have tied those games or possibly won them? My concern is, although we are ahead of them in the standing, that we play down to there level.”
Lumberjack Notes
HSU is 3-11-0 overall and 3-9-0 in CCAA play - 4th in the North Division. … Three Jacks have each scored two goals this season. Arielle Kern (2 g, 2 a, 6 pts), Sarah Nakamoto (2 g, 1 a, 5pts) and Kim Carroll (2 g, 4 pts) lead the HSU attack. Carroll's goal against Cal State Monterey Bay moved her into a tie for fourth place on the program's all-time list. Her 16 career goals match Gabby Ahmadia. … Keeper Jennie Paugh is 3-8-0 while playing just shy of 952 minutes. She has made 48 saves on the 65 shots that have been on frame (.738 save percentage) and her goals-against-average (gaa) is 1.61. … The Jacks have scored two goals in each of their three wins. … Among CCAA athletes Paugh ranks seventh in saves and her 4.36 saves per game is fourth in the conference.
Opponents Notes
The Sonoma State Seawolves (2-8-3, 1-8-3 CCAA – 5th place North Division) dropped a pair of 0-1 results in Los Angeles last week. On Friday they fell to CSU Los Angeles and on Sunday came up short at Cal State Dominguez Hills. Sara Studer (2 g, 4 pts, 1 gwg) leads the Seawolves' offense. Allison Kern, Taylor Colacion and Jaci Davey (1 g, 2 pts) also contribute. Courtney Grixti, the SSU keeper who has played the majority of the minutes this season, has made 39 saves on 51 shots for a gaa of 1.32 and a save percentage of .765. Her record is 2-6-2. Luke Oberkirch, in his 16th season, leads the Seawolves.
