Thursday, October 29
Clemson, S.C.
7 PM
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Clemson
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Pitt Begins Final Road Trip of Fall Regular Season Thursday Versus No. 3 Clemson
10/28/2020 4:58:00 PM | Women's Soccer
PITTSBURGH – Pitt women's soccer begins its final road trip of the fall regular season at No. 3 Clemson Thursday at 7 p.m.
HOW TO FOLLOW ALONG
LAST TIME OUT: MIAMI
ACC TOURNAMENT SPOT ON THE LINE
TOP MARKS IN THE COUNTRY
LEADING SCORER IN THE NATION, AMANDA WEST
ROAD WARRIORS
SCOUTING NO. 3 CLEMSON
THE SERIES
NEW STARTING GOALKEEPER
O CANADA
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HOW TO FOLLOW ALONG
- The game airs live on the ACC Network Extra.
- Updates from the contest will also be provided on Twitter. Follow @Pitt_WSOC for the latest news and updates about the team.
LAST TIME OUT: MIAMI
- Pitt defeated Miami 2-0 on Sunday, Oct. 18 in the fall home finale.
- Kate McKay headed in a corner kick from Hailey Davidson in the 67th minute for the game-winning goal.
- Amanda West added an insurance goal in the 78th minute.
- Pitt had the decisive advantage in shots (24-8) and shots on goal (8-2).
ACC TOURNAMENT SPOT ON THE LINE
- Sitting in eighth place in the ACC standings with nine points (3-3-0) and with two games left, the Panthers are in a position to make the ACC Tournament for the first time in program history.
- As the top-eight teams make the tournament as in years' past, Pitt controls its fate to make its first postseason appearance since making the BIG EAST Tournament in 2010.
- Pitt would clinch a bid with a win over Clemson and a tie between ninth-place Wake Forest (seven points) and 10th-place Virginia Tech (six points), which takes place Thursday at 7 p.m. in Winston-Salem, N.C.
- With two wins this week, Pitt could finish as high as third in the league standings.
TOP MARKS IN THE COUNTRY
- With the strong start to the season, the team ranks among the best in Division I in several categories.
- The Panthers lead the nation in total points (81) and goals (29).
- They rank in the top-20 in other team statistics:
- second in scoring offense (2.42 goals per game) and assists (23), 10th in shots per game (15.17), 13th in shots on goal per game (7.08), 19th in corner kicks per game (5.7) and 20th in shutout percentage (0.417).
LEADING SCORER IN THE NATION, AMANDA WEST
- West leads the nation in goals (12), game-winning goals (four), points (28), goals per game (1.0), points per game (2.33) and shots on goal per game (2.5) while ranking fourth in shots per gme (4.5) and tied for fourth in assists (four) with teammate Kate McKay.
- She hit the ground running this season, just like she did last year, with a goal in the first seven games for the longest goal-scoring streak in program history.
- With only 29 career games played, she already ranks among the top all-time scorers in program history.
- First in points (57), six ahead of Ashley Cuba (2009-12).
- Second in career goals (22), one behind Cuba.
- Tied for third in assists (13) with Liz Carroll (2007-10).
- She has recorded nine 3+ point games, the most in school history.
- Her 28 points this year rank second and one behind her total last year.
- Her 12 goals this fall are most in a single-season, one ahead of her total last year and Cande Ruiz (1998) in 1998.
- She accomplished things in 2019 that no other Panther has done.
- She was named to the United Soccer Coaches' All-Atlantic Region Third-Team, becoming the second-ever Panther to receive all-region honors.
- She became the first Pitt women's soccer player to receive All-ACC honors when she was named to the third and all-freshmen teams.
- She broke the school's all-time single-season points record last year with 29.
- In assists, she tied with Charity McClure (1998) and Katelyn Ruhe (2010) for the single-season record.
ROAD WARRIORS
- Five of the nine wins this season have come on the road, the most in a single-season in program history.
- Last year on the road, Pitt was 1-7-1 and a combined 2-28-4 in the last four seasons.
- With the difficulties of scheduling due to COVID and the desire to play nonconference games, Pitt has 10 of its 15 games away from home this fall.
- All but one of the seven nonconference games are on the road.
SCOUTING NO. 3 CLEMSON
- The Tigers enter the game with a 5-2-0, 4-2-0 record and have been ranked in the top-10 since the rankings first came out.
- Clemson's only losses have come at No. 1 North Carolina (3-0) and then-No. 11 Duke (1-0).
- Freshman midfielder Megan Bornkamp and sophomore midfielder Caroline Conti lead the team in scoring with three goals and seven points, as the Tigers have outscored teams 14-4 with four shutouts.
- A transfer from Villanova, junior goalkeeper Hensley Hancuff has started in all but one game with a goals-against average of 0.51, 30 saves and .909 save percentage.
THE SERIES
- Clemson has won all five meetings against Pitt.
- In the only meeting between the two programs to go to overtime, last year in Clemson Pitt rebounded from a two-goal second half deficit, but the Tigers got the golden goal for a 3-2 win.
NEW STARTING GOALKEEPER
- The Panthers replace two-year starting goalkeeper Amaia Pena, who signed a professional contract with Athletic Club Femenino (Spain).
- Pitt has three goalkeepers on the roster: Robinson, Caitlyn Lazzarini and Gabriella Neibart.
- Robinson, the most experienced of the trio, seized the job at the beginning of the season and started the first eight games with only eight goals allowed and 21 saves in 754 minutes played.
- She has recorded three shutouts, including back-to-back against Syracuse and Navy.
- Lazzarini has started the last three games and previously relieved Robinson in both App State games and also against Boston College in the second half.
- She has made eight saves in 331 minutes.
- Prior to this season, Robinson made eight starts in 12 games played over two seasons. Last year she registered a 0-1-1 record with a 2.20 goals against average and eight saves.
- Lazzarini played in four games with three starts last year as a freshman and recorded a 1-2-0 record, 0.95 goals against average and eight saves.
O CANADA
- Waldrum and his staff have gone north of the border the last two years to find top talent to fill out the roster.
- Six players grew up playing in the Canadian youth soccer system: Chantelle Parker (Milton, Ontario), Leah Pais (Mississagua, Ontario), West (Burlington, Ontario), Anna Bout (Cambridge, Ontario), Chloe Minas (Montreal, Quebec) and Bex Bartosh (Hiawatha First Nation, Ontario).
- Pais ranks tied for second with Anna Rico and McKay on the team in scoring with four goals and 10 points.
- Bout and Minas have started in the midfield in each game, and Bout scored her first collegiate goal at Appalachian State.
- Parker started four games at forward before Pitt's last game against Miami.
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