Soccer Faces Off With Chanticleers On Thursday

OPENING KICK: App State Soccer seems to be to comply with a powerful residence win with a profitable street journey because the workforce heads to Conway, S.C. to sq. off with Coastal Carolina on Thursday at 7 p.m. on ESPN+.
 
SCOUTING THE MOUNTAINEERS: App State is 5-5-1 on the season and 1-2-1 in Sun Belt play following a 1-0 victory over South Alabama on Friday. Izzi Wood scored the lone objective of the match on a penalty kick within the 66th minute giving her 29 profession targets (one behind the Casey Cleary for probably the most all-time). The win marked the primary victory over the Jaguars since 2016 and simply the second time that an opponent shut out South Alabama this season. App State is paced offensively with 4 targets from Ellie Garrison and three apiece from Wood and Kyli Switalski. The protection is anchored by freshman Maddie Williams who has began every of the primary 11 video games for the Mountaineers and has performed all 90 minutes a team-high 9 occasions. Fellow freshmen Morgan Chapman and Lucy Harrington have additionally earned beginning roles on the again line. App State has posted back-to-back profitable seasons in Sun Belt play and seven-plus win seasons total.
 
SCOUTING THE CHANTICLEERS: Coastal Carolina comes into play 3-4-3 total and 0-1-3 in Sun Belt play following back-to-back scoreless attracts towards Old Dominion and ULM. The Chanticleers additionally performed to a 1-1 draw towards James Madison and fell 4-1 to South Alabama. The workforce has performed a low-scoring type all season lengthy, scoring simply seven targets and permitting solely 11 in 10 video games performed. Sophomore Dolcie O’Connor leads the offense with three targets this season, whereas Eleanor Ashton has offered a objective and two assists. Goalkeeper Aris Lamanna has performed each minute of each sport this season and has posted 4 shutouts. Coastal went 8-7-6 final season and 3-3-4 in Sun Belt play and was picked to complete fifth within the Sun Belt this season. Sophomore defender Eefje Botjer was chosen to the Sun Belt preseason all-conference workforce.
 
SERIES HISTORY: Thursday’s matchup will mark the seventeenth all-time assembly between the Mountaineers and Chanticleers. Coastal leads the head-to-head collection 7-5-4 following a 2-2 draw final season in Boone the place Izzi Wood and Eleanor Ashton every notched two-goal efforts.
 
PERFECT FROM THE DOT: App State has gone an ideal 4-4 on penalty kicks this season, together with game-winning targets towards Miami and South Alabama in a pair of 1-0 victories this season. App State is certainly one of six groups within the nation (Bellarmine, Detroit Mercy, Florida, Georgetown, Oklahoma) to have made 4 penalty kicks this season and not using a miss. Ellie Garrison (2/2) and Izzi Wood (2/2) have accounted for all 4 makes.
 
INCREDIBLE IZZI: Graduate pupil Izzi Wood scored a decisive penalty kick objective within the 66^th minute on Sept. 26 in a 1-0 victory over South Alabama to present App State its first convention win of the yr. Wood has now scored 29 profession targets, shifting her to inside one objective of Casey Cleary’s profession document of 30 targets completed from 2005-2008. The sixth-year standout has performed 81 matches throughout 5 seasons – the third-most in program historical past – regardless of lacking the 2021 marketing campaign attributable to damage. Wood is coming off a career-high 11 targets in 2024, which matched the single-season program document.

ANCHORED BY MADDIE: Freshman Maddie Williams has been the anchor of the App State protection in her first season in Boone. The native of Birmingham, England joined the workforce as an early enrollee within the spring, and she or he is certainly one of 5 gamers to play and begin all 11 video games this season. Williams leads the Mountaineers with 965 minutes performed this season, together with a team-high 9 90-minute efforts. She has led the again line to 3 shutouts this season.

 

MOUNTAINEER MAGIC: Kyli Switalski scored the game-tying objective within the 86th minute of regulation within the convention opener at Old Dominion on Sept. 13 to assist App State earn a 1-1 draw. It was the seventh time in Aimee Haywood‘s 4 seasons that App State has scored a game-tying or game-winning objective with lower than 10 minutes to play.

A FRESH(MEN) START: 11 of App State’s 27 gamers this season are freshmen or redshirt freshmen (9 extra are sophomores or redshirt sophomores) with many incomes distinguished roles early on of their careers in Boone.

  

UP NEXT: App State will return residence to face James Madison on Sunday. First contact is ready for 1 p.m. at The Valley and the sport will probably be broadcast on ESPN+. The Dukes are 5-3-4 total and 1-1-2 in Sun Belt play and can host Marshall on Thursday earlier than making the journey to Boone.