Virginia Girls’s Soccer | No. 1 Virginia Heads West To Face Cal Thursday Night time

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The top-ranked Virginia girls’s soccer crew (10-0-1, 4-0-0 ACC) heads on a west coast swing this week for 2 video games starting with a matchup at Cal (6-2-6, 2-1-2 ACC) on Thursday (Oct. 9). Kick is ready for six:30 p.m. ET.

HOW TO FOLLOW THE ACTION
Thursday night time’s contest with the Bears will probably be streamed on ACCNX via ESPN.com and the ESPN app. Live stats are additionally out there and hyperlinks to each are at VirginiaSports activities.com. Fans can even get updates by following this system’s official account on X (@UVAWomenSoccer).

NOTING THE HOOS

• Virginia held down the highest spot within the United Soccer Coaches rankings for the fourth straight week and stayed at No. 2 within the Top Drawer Soccer ballot following the win over Virginia Tech
• The Cavaliers additionally maintained the highest spot within the RPI for the fourth straight week
• Lia Godfrey, Laney Rouse and Victoria Safradin had been on the MAC Hermann Trophy Midseason Watch List this week because the trio are a part of the 35 participant record from the United Soccer Coaches
• Godfrey hit her fourth recreation winner of the 12 months and sixth aim of the season in opposition to Virginia Tech final week as she and Maggie Cagle hit the 2 targets for UVA within the 2-1 victory
• Godfrey and Cagle proceed to be an offensive risk for the Hoos as each gamers rank among the many high 4 nationally in profession assists amongst all energetic D1 gamers (Godfrey 2nd, Cagle T4th)
• The duo have mixed for 48 targets and 59 assists all through their careers with the Hoos
• Godfrey hit the sport profitable aim in three straight contests for the Cavaliers and leads the crew with 4 game-winning targets and 7 complete targets on the season
• Godfrey has been potent within the midfield with Ella Carter because the pair have mixed for 10 targets and 5 assists – six of these targets are recreation winners and two assists got here on game-winning targets
• Safradin sits second nationally in aim in opposition to common (0.300) and in save share (.919)
• The Virginia keeper employees has been stout, rating first nationally in save share (.923) and ranks second nationally in aim in opposition to common (.273) heading into the week
• The recreation in opposition to Cal is the primary of two on the west coast for the Hoos and is a part of UVA’s second two-week street journey in convention play as UVA performs 5 of it’s first seven ACC video games on the street

THE SERIES WITH CAL

• Virginia and Cal meet for less than the second time in program historical past when the groups face off at CA Edwards Stadium
• The Cavaliers gained the one different assembly with a 1-0 victory within the 1995 season in a neutral-site matchup in Livermore, Calif.
• This is the primary assembly between the 2 groups as ACC opponents and at one of many crew’s campus venues