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BC Begins Road Stretch at Louisville
October 13, 2021 | Women's Soccer
The Eagles will face the Cardinals on Friday afternoon in Kentucky.
Game 15 | Boston College at Louisville
Friday, Oct. 15, 2021 | 4:00 p.m.
Dr. Mark & Cindy Lynn Stadium | Louisville, Ky.
A WIN OVER LOUISVILLE WOULD . . .
• Move Boston College to 7-7-1 overall on the year and to 1-6-0 in ACC play.
• Bump BC's record in the series against Louisville to 4-3-0 overall and 2-2-0 on the road.
ABOUT LOUISVILLE
• Louisville enters Friday's contest with an overall mark of 7-4-1 and a record of 3-3-0 in ACC play ... the Cardinals hosted NC State on Sunday afternoon, falling 2-1.
• The Cardinals have picked up ACC wins against Miami (3-2 OT), Syracuse (2-1) and Wake Forest (2-1 OT).
• Nina Nicosia leads the team in scoring with nine points on three goals and three assists ... Emma Hiscock has a team-leading four goals ... all seven of Louisville's game-winning goals have come from different players.
• Goalkeeper Gabby Kouzelos has started all 12 games for Louisville, going 7-4-1 with a .694 save percentage, 1.56 goals against average and two shutouts.
• Louisville was tabbed eighth in the 2021 ACC Preseason Coaches Poll.
SERIES HISTORY VS LOUISVILLE
• Boston College has a record of 3-3-0 in the all-time series with Louisville ... the Eagles have a mark of 1-2-0 on the road and 2-1-0 at home against the Cardinals.
• The teams first met on Oct. 12, 2014, with BC traveling to Louisville and earning a 1-0 win.
• Five of the six meetings in the series have featured a shutout ... BC has put up three shutouts to Louisville's two in the series.
• The teams met in Louisville last year, with the Cardinals getting a 2-0 win in what was BC's second game of the season.
UP NEXT
• Boston College will continue its three-game road stretch with a visit to Pitt on Thursday, Oct. 21.
• The Eagles will then head to Virginia Tech on Sunday, Oct. 24 before returning home to host Clemson for the regular season finale on Thursday, Oct. 28.
ACTIVE SCORING LEADERS
• Jenna Bike is BC's active scoring leader with 45 points on 17 goals and 11 assists.
• Sam Smith is the second-highest active scorer with 39 points on 17 goals and five assists.
PUTTING IN THE TIME
• Haley Thomas leads Boston College field players in minutes played with 1,216 while captain Michela Agresti has put in 1,215 ... Thomas has played 90 minutes or more in 11 games this season while Agresti has played at least 90 minutes in 10 games this season, including the last eight straight.
• Sonia Walk has also broken the 1,000-minute mark, putting in 1,073 on the pitch.
• Two other Eagles in Samantha Agresti (923) and Éabha O'Mahony (965) have played over 900 minutes.
• Goalkeeper Wiebke Willebrandt has played all 1,287 minutes for the Eagles.
LAST TIME OUT
• The Eagles went toe-to-toe with No. 5 North Carolina on Sunday afternoon, ultimately falling in overtime, 2-1.
• BC carried the early play and took a 1-0 lead in the 50th minute thanks to Sam Smith's fourth goal of the season ... UNC evened the score late in the half and then scored for the win in overtime.
• Jenna Bike assisted on Smith's goal ... goalkeeper Wiebke Willebrandt made two saves for BC.
IT'S WORTH NOTING
• BC has seven different goal scorers and 17 different point getters on the year.
• Three Eagles have combined for six four-point games for BC this season, with Ella Richards doing it four times and Linda Boama and Samantha Agresti once each.
• Ella Richards ranks fifth in the ACC in points (20) and sits tied for fifth in goals (8).
• Linda Boama is tied for sixth in the ACC in points (19) and fifth in points per game (1.58) while tying for fifth in goals (8) and goals per game (0.67).
• Wiebke Willebrandt's season and career-high 12 saves at No. 1 Florida State on Sept. 18 marked the second most in a game by an ACC goalkeeper this season.
• Willebrandt earned her first career win and shutout in her first career start with four saves at Iona on Aug. 19 ... the last Eagle goalkeeper to do the same was Erin Seppi against Stony Brook on Aug. 25, 2016.
• BC's 15 goals in the first four games marked the most for the team through the first four games of the year since BC scored 15 goals over the first four games of the 2015 season.
SISTER ACT
• The Eagles have two sets of sisters on the roster this season.
• Samantha and Michela Agresti are in their third season together as Eagles.
• Sophomore Emma Goggins is joined this season by her younger sister, Kate Goggins.
