App State Soccer Faces Georgia Southern in Season Finale

OPENING KICK: App State Soccer takes intention at a 3rd consecutive seven-win season when the staff squares off with Georgia Southern on Wednesday at 6 p.m. at The Valley. The contest will function a pizza giveaway for college kids and a halftime Halloween costume contest. The match will probably be broadcast on ESPN+. 
 
SCOUTING THE MOUNTAINEERS: App State enters the match 6-7-3 on the season and 2-4-3 in Sun Belt play following a 2-1 victory over Southern Miss. Izzi Wood scored the game-winning aim within the 56th minute of play to set the App State all-time scoring report along with her thirty first profession tally. Libby Bermingham opened the scoring along with her first profession aim. Wood leads the Mountaineers with 5 objectives this season, together with three game-winners, whereas Ellie Garrison has scored 4 objectives, three of which have been game-winners. The protection is anchored by freshman Maddie Williams who has began all 16 video games for the Mountaineers and has performed all 90 minutes a team-high 14 occasions. 
 
SCOUTING THE EAGLES: Georgia Southern enters the finale 2-9-6 total and 0-4-5 in Sun Belt play. After starting the season 2-1, the Eagles haven’t registered a win for the reason that month of August. They are coming off back-to-back 2-2 attracts towards Coastal Carolina and ULM. They have been outscored 30-17 this season. Senior ahead Bri Conley leads the Eagles with 4 objectives and two assists on the season, whereas junior midfielder Addison Comer has additionally scored 4 occasions. Three totally different goalkeepers have began at the very least three video games for the Eagles this season, with Quinn Wilson getting the not in every of the final two outings. 
 
SERIES HISTORY: App State and Georgia Southern are assembly for the fortieth time in program historical past, relationship again to the 1994 inaugural season when this system earned its first ever victory towards the Eagles (1-0). Most just lately, App State received the 2024 assembly 2-1 in Statesboro with Ellie Garrison and Izzi Wood every scoring a aim inside the first 12 minutes of the match. Wood additionally scored the lone aim within the Mountaineers’ 1-0 win in Boone in 2023.
 
LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN: A win on Wednesday would give the Mountaineers at the very least seven wins for the third consecutive season. The final time App State Soccer received at the very least seven video games in three straight years was 2014-2016, the staff’s first three seasons within the Sun Belt Conference.
 
STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE: App State holds an RPI of 122 this season, a 36-spot enchancment from the place they completed final 12 months. The Mountaineers have performed a difficult schedule in each non-conference and Sun Belt play. App State has confronted 5 of the top-six RPI groups within the Sun Belt going 1-2-2 in these contests with a win over South Alabama (49) and attracts towards Old Dominion (61) and James Madison (57). App State additionally defeated Miami (68) and performed a street contest at Clemson (23).

PROTECTING THE VALLEY: In Aimee Haywood‘s tenure, the Mountaineers have been stout at dwelling, compiling a report of 17-8-7 (.640), and outscoring their opponents 46-28 at The Valley over that span. The Mountaineers posted a program-best 13-match unbeaten streak from Oct. 14, 2022, by Aug. 29, 2024.