WSOC PREVIEW: First-Place Billikens Journey to Saint Joseph’s Sunday

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•Saint Louis concludes the primary half of its Atlantic 10 Conference schedule Sunday, Oct. 5, when the Billikens (9-2-1, 4-0) tackle Saint Joseph’s (4-7-1, 1-3). Game time at Sean Sweeney Field in Philadelphia is midday Central.

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•Saint Louis, which equaled its season excessive for objectives in a 4-0 win over La Salle Thursday night time at Hermann Stadium, has 4 straight victories and a seven-game unbeaten streak (6-0-1). The preseason favourite Billikens are tied with Dayton atop the A-10 standings.

•A 3-0 house win over Davidson on Thursday snapped a three-game shedding streak and a five-game winless streak for Saint Joseph’s, which was tabbed for a fifth-place end within the A-10.

•Saint Louis leads Saint Joseph’s 12-4-4 in a collection that dates to 2005. The Billikens are 6-2-1 vs. the Hawks in Philadelphia.

•SLU is 7-0-1 vs. Saint Joseph’s within the final eight conferences, outscoring the Hawks 17-1 throughout that span.

•The groups met twice final yr, each instances in St. Louis. Saint Louis claimed a 2-0 victory within the A-10 Championship semifinals as Julia Simon (Lucie Schwartz, Hope Kim assists) scored the primary purpose and Hannah Larson assisted on the second. The Bills and Hawks battled to a 1-1 draw within the regular-season assembly.

•Through video games of Oct. 2, Saint Louis is No. 48 within the NCAA Division I girls’s soccer Ratings Percentage Index (RPI).

•Including regular-season and convention event competitors, Saint Louis is unbeaten in 46 consecutive video games vs. A-10 opponents.

•Saint Louis leads the A-10 in profitable share (.792, seventeenth nationally) and is tied for first in assists per sport (1.83, tied for 57th).

•The Billikens are second within the league in nook kicks per sport (7.75, sixth), photographs per sport (17.92, seventeenth), photographs on purpose per sport (7.92, twenty first) and purpose differential (+12, 53rd).

•SLU is third within the A-10 in objectives per sport (1.83, eightieth), tied for third in shutout share (.583, seven shutouts in 12 video games, tied for nineteenth) and fourth in objectives in opposition to common (0.83, sixtieth).

•Nine completely different Billikens have scored at the least one purpose, and 13 completely different Billikens have recorded at the least one level.

•Seventeen of SLU’s 22 objectives have been assisted. There has been a special participant mixture on 15 of these 17 objectives.

•Adee Broesder and Audrey Smith have a team-high 4 objectives apiece. Hope Kim and Izzy Luebbert have three every.

•Broesder, Kim and Luebbert high the factors chart with 9 apiece. Smith is shut behind with eight.

•Caroline Chier leads the group with 5 assists, tying for second within the A-10. Hannah Larson and Eva Schreiber have 4 apiece.

•Emma Parker is tied for fourth within the A-10 and tied for fifteenth nationally with six shutouts. Parker is fourth within the league and 69th nationally with a 0.83 objectives in opposition to common.

•Junior ahead Emily Hanrahan has group highs of 5 objectives and 12 factors for Saint Joseph’s. Hanrahan is one in every of 10 Hawks who’ve scored at the least one purpose.

•Sophomore ahead Sarah Fisher, a 2024 A-10 All-Rookie choice, leads the convention with six assists.

•Graduate Alli Popham (1.29 GAA, .771 save share) and sophomore Peyton Radwanski (1.89 GAA, .756 save share) have shared the goalkeeping duties virtually evenly.