Cleveland State at UIC
Sunday, October 27, 2019
2 p.m.
Chicago, Ill. | Flames Field
SETTING THE STAGE: Cleveland State continues its pursuit of a postseason berth as it visits UIC for a Horizon League match on Sunday (Oct. 27) at 2 p.m. on Flames Field.
HORIZON LEAGUE STANDINGS: Cleveland State currently occupies the sixth position in the Horizon League standings...The top six teams in the regular season standings will advance to the Horizon League Tournament...The Vikings lead Northern Kentucky by one point in the race for the final tournament spot, and Cleveland State trails IUPUI by two points for the fifth spot and Oakland by three points for the fourth position...Cleveland State also owns the tiebreaker over Northern Kentucky by virtue of a 3-0 win...Cleveland State will close the regular season with a road match at Wright State (Nov. 1)...Northern Kentucky finishes the season at home versus Green Bay (Oct. 27) and at Detroit Mercy (Nov. 1), while IUPUI hosts Wright State (Oct. 27) and Green Bay (Nov. 1) and Oakland hosts Milwaukee (Nov. 27) and visits UIC (Nov. 1).
HORIZON LEAGUE TOURNAMENT: The top six teams in the regular season standings will advance to the Horizon League Tournament...The tournament will begin on Nov. 4 with the No. 3 seed hosting the No. 6 seed and the No. 4 seed hosting the No. 5 seed...The semifinals of the tournament will be held on Nov. 7 and the championship will determined on Nov. 9...The top seed for the tournament will host the semifinals and championship.
ON THE ROAD TO CLOSE THINGS OUT: Cleveland State will close the regular season by playing its final two matches on the road...The Vikings have fared well on the road this season with a 3-3-1 record away from Krenzler Field...Cleveland State will travel to UIC (Oct. 27) and Wright State (Nov. 1) to close the season.
AMAZING GRACE: Cleveland State freshman Grace Krosky scored a pair of goals in the Vikings 3-0 victory at Northern Kentucky to become the 21st player in school history to register two goals in a match...Krosky scored a goal in each period to lead the Vikings to the win...Her first goal, which proved to be the game winner, came off a Cleveland State corner kick...She capped the scoring in the second half with a one-touch blast from distance.
HORIZON LEAGUE OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Cleveland State freshman Grace Krosky was rewarded for her play against Northern Kentucky by being selected as the Nike Horizon League Co-Offensive Player of the Week...She became the first Viking to win Offensive Player of the Week honors this season and joined Stevie Holbrook (Defensive Player of the Week) as Cleveland State players to be recognized by the league this season.
TWO FIRSTS: Cleveland State freshmen Rylee Bussen and Grace Krosky each scored their first career goals in the Vikings tie with Oakland...The duo helped the Vikings rally for a 2-2 draw.
VERSUS UIC: This will mark the sixth all-time meeting between Cleveland State and UIC with the Flames owning a 3-2 series advantage...Detroit Mercy with the Titans owning a 10-5-2 series advantage...The Vikings are 2-1-0 at home versus the Flames and 0-2-0 on the road...The Vikings defeated UIC 1-0 last season on Krenzler Field...Cleveland State lost at UIC by a 2-0 margin in 2017 and by a 2-0 score in 2015...Cleveland State head coach Dallas Boyer is 1-1 all-time against UIC.
MCKENNA MAGIC: Cleveland State freshman McKenna Donahue became the 20th player in Cleveland State history to tally two goals in a match in the Vikings 3-0 victory at Green Bay...Donahue scored the first two goals of the match to lead to the Vikings to the victory.
ALL-TOURNAMENT VIKINGS: Cleveland State's Elena Gutlove and Kailah Ransom were each named to the all-tournament team at the UTSA Tournament.
HORIZON LEAGUE DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Cleveland State's Stevie Holbrook was named the Nike Horizon League Defensive Player of the Week on Aug. 26...It marked the second time in her career she has earned Defensive Player of the Week honors from the league.
LAST TIME OUT: Cleveland State closed out the home portion of its schedule with a 1-0 victory against Detroit Mercy on Krenzler Field...Grace Grant converted a penalty kick in the first period to spark the Vikings...Keeper Stevie Holbrook made five saves and posted her sixth shutout of the season...Grace Grant, Toni Dickson and Sydney Hamker each recorded two shots for Cleveland State...Grace Krosky, Essence Canady, Briana Niedermeier, Rylee Bussen and Courtney Coholich each finished the match with one shot.
IN THE PRESEASON: Cleveland State played a pair of exhibition matches in the run up to the season opener...The Vikings tied Buffalo 1-1 at Buffalo on Aug. 12...Cleveland State dropped a 2-0 decision to Duquesne at Krenzler Field on Aug. 16...Freshman McKenna Donahue scored the Vikings goal against Buffalo.
HORIZON LEAGUE POLL: Cleveland State was selected to finish third in the Horizon League Preseason Poll as selected by the league head coaches...The Vikings received two first-place votes and finished with 73 points...Defending Horizon League champion Milwaukee was tabbed as the league favorite, while Northern Kentucky was chosen to finish second in the poll.
ABOUT CLEVELAND STATE: The Vikings currently have a 5-7-3 overall record and a 3-3-1 record in the Horizon League...The Vikings are 2-3-2 at home, 3-3-1 on the road and 0-1 in neutral site matches...Cleveland State is currently sixth in the Horizon League standings...Junior Elena Gutlove leads the Vikings with nine points on the season...Gutlove has three goals and three assists...Freshman Grace Krosky has three goals and is second on the team with six points...Junior Essence Canady has two goals and an assist...Freshman McKenna Donahue and junior Grace Grant each have two goals and four points on the year...Rylee Bussen has one goal and two points for Cleveland State...Lina Feltovich, Helena Novatsidis, Bianca Sarti and Briana Niedermeier each have an assist for CSU...Elena Gutlove leads Cleveland State with 28 shots, while Grace Grant has 21 shots...Essence Canady has 19 shots, McKenna Donahue has 16 shots, Grace Krosky has 13 shots and Bianca Sarti has notched 10 shots...Stevie Holbrook has started 14 matches in goal and has a 5-6-3 record, a 1.04 goals against average and a .774 save percentage...Holbrook has six shutouts on the season...Cleveland State, which set school records for overall wins and Horizon League wins, advanced to the Horizon League Tournament title match for the first time in school history last year.
ABOUT UIC: UIC enters the contest with a 9-5-1 overall record and a 5-2-0 record in the Horizon League...The Flames are currently tied for second place in the Horizon League with 15 points...UIC is 4-2-1 at home this season...UIC has won three straight matches and has outscored the opposition 8-1...Emily Valentine has four goals and four assists and leads the Flames with 12 points...Emma Main leads the Flames with five goals and is second on the squad with 11 points...Eight different players have scored a goal for UIC this season...Lena Kurz is 8-4-1 in goal for the Flames and has a 0.63 goals against average.
THE COACHES: Cleveland State head coach Dallas Boyer is in his third season at the helm of the Vikings and has compiled a 25-23-5 overall record...Tom Anagnost is in his first season as the head coach at UIC and has a 9-5-1 record guiding the Flames.