STANDISH, Maine – #4 Saint Joseph's College (9-8-1, 9-3-1 GNAC) will play at #1 Johnson & Wales University (17-2-1, 13-0-0 GNAC) in a 2022 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Women's Soccer Tournament Semifinal tonight at 7:00 PM.

BRACKETOLOGY:

Quarterfinals - Saturday, October 29

#1 Johnson & Wales def. #8 Univ. Saint Joseph, 5-2
#4 Saint Joseph's def. #5 Regis, 3-1
#6 Albertus Magnus def. #3 Emmanuel, 2-1
#2 Lasell def. #7 Colby-Sawyer, 4-0

Semifinals - Tuesday, November 1

#4 Saint Joseph's at #1 Johnson & Wales, 7:00 PM
#6 Albertus Magnus at #2 Lasell, 2:30 PM

Championship - Saturday, November 5

Final at highest remaining seed

TEAM STATISTICS IN GNAC PLAY:

RANDOM FACTS:

• Saint Joseph's is 4-5-1 in away games while Johnson & Wales is 10-0-1 at home; the Wildcats have not lost in Providence since falling to Wheaton on September 15th, 2021 – a span of 20 games
• The Monks are 4-1-1 in their last six games while the Wildcats are riding a 16-game winning streak
• St. Joe's is 5-10-4 all-time versus JWU and has lost three-straight to the Wildcats

PLAYERS TO WATCH:

Saint Joseph's:

• Junior forward Aaliyah Wilson-Falcone (Winthrop, Maine) has enjoyed a breakout season with 12 goals and 27 total points; she leads the team in goals and game-clinching tallies (3) and is tied for the lead in points
• Senior forward Madison Michaud (Presque Isle, Maine) has scored 11 goals with five assists for 27 total points as a senior
• Sophomore Alicen Burnham (Monmouth, Maine) has four goals and 10 points while junior Tatum Hancock (Damariscotta, Maine) and freshmen Lelia Weir (Bar Harbor, Maine) and Sydney Gallop (Hermon, Maine) have notched three goals each this fall

Johnson & Wales:

• Grad student Jordan Restivo leads the conference in goals (22), assists (18), points (62), shots (118) and game-winning goals (6)
• Senior Hayley Viebrock is second on the team in goals (8) and points (20)
• Sophomore Angelina Oliveira, freshman MacKenna Renaud, and first-year Kylie Schmidt have netted six goals apiece this fall

KEEPER COMPARISON:

• In her first season as a starter, junior Carly Downey (Yarmouth, Maine) has posted a 1.41 goals against average with a .806 save percentage after making 116 saves and allowing 28 goals in 1518 minutes. She ranks second in the conference in wins (10) and fourth in minutes and saves.
• JWU sophomore Carly McCrumb is 10-2-1 with a 0.95 goals against average and a .698 save percentage in 16 games – 12 starts – this fall. She has allowed 13 goals while making 30 saves in 1228 minutes and ranks third in the conference in goals against average and shutouts (5); rarely tested, she has been forced to make more than three saves in a game just three times all season

THE SKIPPERS:

SAINT JOSEPH'S: Jenelle Harris (10th season; 107-60-11, .601)

JOHNSON & WALES: Chris Flint (8th season; 107-35-9, .709 (at JWU))

THE LAST TIME WE MET:

Johnson & Wales blanked Saint Joseph's, 3-0, in the 2022 regular season matchup played at the SJC Athletics Complex on October 1st. Viebrock, Angelina Carrion and Skyla Landry scored for the Wildcats, who held the lead in shots (29-4), shots on goal (22-0), and corner kicks (8-0) that afternoon.

HISTORICALLY SPEAKING:

With the loss, Saint Joseph's fell to 5-10-4 all-time versus Johnson & Wales University. The Wildcats have defeated the Monks in three-consecutive meetings dating back to the 2019 campaign.

JWU is riding a 34-game undefeated streak versus GNAC foes (regular and postseason) and has not suffered a loss to a conference foe since the Monks defeated the Wildcats in Standish, 2-1, on October 26th, 2019. In fact, the Wildcats' last three GNAC setbacks have come at the hands of Saint Joseph's.

POSTSEASON HISTORY:

The Monks have advanced to the GNAC postseason in 14 of 15 seasons and will be playing in the semifinal round for the seventh time this evening. St. Joe's suffered a 2-0 defeat to Lasell University in a 2021 semifinal contest and fell to JWU, 2-1, in the 2019 semis. Saint Joseph's defeated the Wildcats, 4-2, in the 2018 GNAC semifinals and went on to tip Lasell, 1-0, in the finals to claim the program's first GNAC Championship.

The Wildcats have appeared in the GNAC Tournament in 20 of the last 25 seasons with GNAC Championships in 2000, 2005, 2019 and 2021.