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Women's Soccer Welcomes Harvard Thursday For Seaso

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Women's Soccer Welcomes Harvard Thursday For Seaso

The Fairfield University women's soccer team will conclude its 2010 campaign on Thursday evening as it hosts non-conference foe Harvard University at 6 p.m. on Lessing Field. The contest is a make-up of a contest that was postponed from October 5 due to inclement weather.
Fairfield enters the game Thursday night at 8-8-3 overall, while the Crimson are 8-7-3.  A win over the Crimson would give Fairfield a .500 non-conference record for the year as well as extend the program's streak of winning nine or more games a year to six consecutive seasons.
Fairfield and Harvard are meeting for the seventh time in the history of the programs, with the Stags looking for their first victory. The Crimson, who lead the series 4-0-2, defeated the Stags 4-1 in last year's meeting, in Cambridge. The two teams last met on Lessing Field during the 2008 season, playing to a 0-0 double-overtime draw. The first meeting of the series, at Harvard, in 1994, also ended in a draw, 2-2. The Stags goal in last year's contest was the first goal against Harvard since the initial meeting, having gone scoreless in four consecutive games (8-0).
Casey Frobey will make her record-tying 84th career appearance in tonight's game - equaling the program mark set by Robyn Decker. Frobey became the program's all-time leader in starts in the game at Marist, having started every game that she has played during her Fairfield career.
Kelly Boudreau's junior season will go down in the record books. She backstopped the Stags to 11 shutouts, equaling the single-season record in that category. The effort gave her 26 for her career, which puts her alone atop the career list - having passed Anne Lyons with a 1-0 blanking of Niagara on Senior Day. Boudreau has made a single-season personal best 113 saves, which is the second-highest total in program history. She enters the week 20th in the nation with an .863 save percentage and is 77th nationally with a GAA of .908.
Shannon Fay tallied the Stags lone goal at Siena and in the process became the first player this season to reach 10 points and leads the team with four goals. Should she finish in that spot, she will be the third rookie in six years to lead the team in scoring, joining seniors Casey Frobey (2006) and Nicole Cavallaro (2007) as freshmen to accomplish that feat during the six-year tenure of Jim O'Brien.
Harvard has won three of its last four games, including a 2-0 win over Columbia in its Ivy League finale on Saturday at home. Katherine Sheeleigh is the team's offensive leader, with nine goals, six assists and 24 points. Sheeleigh, Melanie Baskind and Alexandra Conigliaro have all tallied two game-winners on the season. Alexandra Millet has started 10 games in net, playing 858 minutes, and enters the final contest with a GAA of 1.47 and a .689 save percentage. 
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