The Fairfield University women's soccer team plays its lone game of the week on Friday, travelling to Stony Brook University for a 5 p.m. non-conference game. Stony Brook will offer free Gametracker as well as video.
The Stags enter the game at 0-2, falling to Army, 1-0, and Wagner, 2-1, during the opening weekend. Stony Brook is 1-0-1 on the season and moved to 10th in the NSCAA Northeast Region Poll released on August 27. The Seawolves opened the year with a 2-2 draw versus Seton Hall before scoring six first-half goals to blank Fairleigh Dickinson, 6-0.
The meeting is the eighth in program history for the Stags and Seawolves, with Fairfield going 4-2-1 in previous contests. Stony Brook won the last meeting, on Lessing Field, in 2011, 2-1, snapping a two-game Fairfield series win streak. The Stags won 3-0 in 2010 at Stony Brook after a 3-1 win at home in 2009.
Ashley Small tallied the Stags first goal of the year in the second-half of Sunday's game at Wagner. The fifth of her career, it came from a Nikki Stanton pass. Stanton has an assist in each of the four seasons that she has played at Fairfield and now has nine for her career. Kathleen Early has played all 180 miontes in goal, stopping 10 shots for a .769 save percentage.
Stony Brook is led by the three goals of Larissa Nysch, while Stella Norman has a team-best three assists to go along with a goal. Ashley Castanio has started both games in goal for the Seawolves, making 16 saves and stopping nearly 89 percent of the shots she has faced.
