Virginia Ladies’s Soccer | No. 17 Virginia Heads To Liberty For Sunday Matchup

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The No. 17 Virginia girls’s soccer workforce (2-0-0) hits the highway on Sunday (Aug. 24), touring to tackle Liberty (2-1-0) in a contest set for 1 p.m. at Osborne Stadium.

HOW TO FOLLOW THE ACTION
Sunday afternoon’s match might be streamed on ESPN+ which is on the market at ESPN.com and thru the ESPN app. Live stats are additionally out there and hyperlinks to each are at VirginiaSports activities.com. Fans may get updates by following this system’s official account on X (@UVAWomenSoccer).

NOTING THE HOOS

• Virginia enters week ranked No. 17 within the United Soccer Coaches ballot and in addition entered the rankings for Top Drawer Soccer at No. 24 after not being ranked within the publication’s preseason rankings
• Virginia is coming off a 3-0 victory over Xavier on Thursday evening and the Cavaliers have posted back-to-back shutouts to begin the season and three straight courting again to final season’s finale
• Following the sport at Liberty, the Cavaliers will return house for a stretch of 5 straight house video games that features No. 1 Duke, No. 14 Penn State and Georgetown
• Lia Godfrey delivered within the win over Xavier with an help on the game-winning purpose and a purpose of her personal to cap the scoring within the 3-0 victory over the Musketeers
• Victoria Safradin matched a profession excessive in saves in opposition to Xavier, tallying six saves within the shutout
• Safradin and the Hoos have posted 374:16 consecutive shutout minutes courting again to final season’s win over Princeton within the opening spherical of the NCAA Tournament
• Allie Ross scored her first purpose of the season with the opening purpose and sport winner in opposition to Xavier
• Maggie Cagle and Godfrey are two of essentially the most prolific ball distributors within the NCAA coming into the weekend as each gamers rank within the high 6 amongst energetic D1 gamers in assists per sport for a profession
• Each a part of the duo additionally ranks within the high 4 amongst all D1 gamers in complete assists in a profession with Godfrey rating second (31) and Cagle rating fourth (24)
• Tatum Galvin delivered her first profession help on the Ross purpose within the match in opposition to Xavier, whereas freshman Pearl Cecil scored her first collegiate purpose in that win over the Musketeers
• Godfrey additionally leads all energetic NCAA girls’s soccer gamers in video games performed (87) no matter division

THE SERIES WITH LIBERTY

• Virginia and Liberty have met 16 time beforehand with the Cavaliers holding a 16-0-0 lead within the all-time sequence
• The final assembly got here within the 2019 season with Virginia taking a 6-0 victory in that matchup in Charlottesville
• This is simply the second matchup performed at Liberty as 15 of the earlier 16 conferences have all are available in Charlottesville