BC Heads to Notre Dame for Sunday Matinee

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The Boston College women's soccer team will travel to Notre Dame this weekend to face the Fighting Irish on Sunday at Alumni Soccer Stadium. The match, which is set for a 1 p.m. start, will air live on ACCNX, which streams live on the ESPN App.

Game 11 | Boston College at Notre Dame
Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021 | 1:00 p.m.
Alumni Soccer Stadium | South Bend, Ind.

A WIN OVER NOTRE DAME WOULD . . .
• Move Boston College to 7-3-1 overall on the year and to 1-2-0 in ACC play.
• Bump the Eagles to 2-13-0 in the all-time series with Notre Dame with a mark of 1-8-0 on the road.
• Give BC its first ACC win of the season.
• Move Jason Lowe to 1-1-0 against Notre Dame.

ABOUT NOTRE DAME
• The Fighting Irish enter Sunday's match with an overall record of 8-1-1 ... Notre Dame is coming off of a 5-0 win at Miami on Thursday night.
• The Irish opened the season with a five-game unbeaten streak (4-0-1) before falling at Missouri, 3-2, in overtime ... the squad has gone 4-0-0 since.
• Sammi Fisher leads the team with 17 points on eight goals and one assist ... four of Fisher's goals have been game-winners.
• Olivia Wingate with 11 points on four goals and three assists along with Korbin Albert with 10 points on four goals and two assists, give Notre Dame three double-digit scorers.
• The Irish have used three different goalkeepers this season in Mattie Interian (3-0-1), Kaylin Slattery (1-1-0) and Ashley Naylor (4-0-0).
• Head coach Nate Norman is in his fourth season as head coach of the Fighting Irish.

SERIES HISTORY VS NOTRE DAME
• Boston College and Notre Dame have met 14 times, with the Fighting Irish holding a lead of 13-1-0 in the all-time series.
• The teams met last season in South Bend, with the Irish spoiling the Eagles' season-opener with a 2-0 win ... it was the first meeting between the two teams since 2015.
• This marks the first time the Irish and Eagles have met in back-to-back seasons since they faced off every year from 2000 to 2004.
• The Eagles and Fighting Irish first met on Oct. 27, 1995 at Notre Dame ... the hosts came away with a 3-1 win.
• BC's lone win in the series came on Nov. 7, 2003, with the Eagles earning a 2-1 win in the BIG EAST tournament.
• The Eagles and Irish have clashed in five different locations ... in addition to Notre Dame and Newton, the two schools have squared off in a neutral site game at Rutgers University, the BIG EAST tournament in Storrs, Conn. and also at Natick HS in Natick, Mass.

UP NEXT
• After facing Notre Dame, the Eagles will return home for a three-game homestand, beginning with a game against Miami on Saturday, Oct. 2.

IT'S WORTH NOTING
• BC has seven different goal scorers and 17 different point getters through the first 10 games of the season.
• 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.
• Haley Thomas leads BC field players in minutes played with 868 ... captain Michela Agresti is right behind with 847 minutes logged ... four other players have all put in at least 600 minutes in Sonia Walk (747), Samantha Agresti (660), Éabha O'Mahony (639) and Sarai Costello (604).
• Ella Richards ranks second in the ACC in points (2.00) and points per game (2.00) and tied for second in goals per game (0.80).
• 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.

LAST TIME OUT
• Boston College dropped its ACC home opener on Thursday night, falling to Wake Forest 1-0.
• The Demon Deacons scored in the 30th minute and then held off BC's second-half bids.
• The teams were even in 14 shots each ... Laura Gouvin, Jenna Bike and Samantha Agresti led the Eagles with three shots each.
• Wiebke Willebrandt finished with three saves for BC.
• It was the 14th time in 18 meetings between Wake Forest and Boston College that the game was decided by one goal or less.

INTERNATIONAL APPEAL
• The Eagles are a diverse group, having five different countries and 14 different states represented on the team roster of 28.
• The most represented state for BC is Massachusetts, which is called home by six players ... five Eagles hail from California ... 12 states can claim one Eagle each.
• Canada has two players represented while Iceland, Ireland and Germany each have one representative on the roster ... 23 players are from the United States.

BC Heads to Notre Dame for Sunday Matinee

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Players Mentioned

Michela Agresti

Samantha Agresti

Jenna Bike

Linda Boama

Sarai Costello

Laura Gouvin

Ella Richards

Haley Thomas

Sonia Walk

Wiebke Willebrandt