CLINTON, S.C. – Poised to enter the Big South Tournament for the first time in five years, the Presbyterian College women's soccer team hopes to boost their resume a bit further on Saturday afternoon in the regular season finale, welcoming two-time defending league champion Radford.

First touch at Martin Stadium is scheduled for 2:30 PM, the first half of a doubleheader involving the PC Men's Soccer team who will face nationally-ranked High Point later that evening.

Tomorrow will be Alumni Day in Clinton, as the Blue Hose will be honoring the 1994 Women's Soccer team in a postgame ceremony. Head coach Matt Smith's wife, Heather, was the team captain that year under previous director Brian Purcell.

ESPN+ will be on hand to broadcast the conference closer, as PC aims to burn a three-game losing skid to the Highlanders and put themselves in position to host a Quarterfinal Round match in the following weekend's league bracket.

The top two seeds in the Big South Tournament receive a BYE into the Semi's, while the remaining four qualifiers will duke it out on November 2. With a win, coach Smith's crew could be playing in a postseason match at home for the first time in the school's NCAA Division I history (since 2007).

 
GAMEDAY INFO – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26
Presbyterian (7-4-4, 2-1-3) vs. Radford (7-3-5, 2-1-3)
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STANDINGS UPDATE
 
- With one final outing left until the regular season is complete, the Blue Hose find themselves in a tie with their Saturday opponent for the number three spot in the conference standings.

- USC Upstate and High Point will enter the weekend in a tight battle for the first and second seeds, while Presby and Radford are right on their heels by gaining nine points each (two Big South wins and three ties against conference foes).

- Both the Blue Hose and the Highlanders took a step forward on Wednesday, as Radford rode an early goal all the way to a 1-0 shutout over HPU. Meanwhile, PC also earned a shutout versus UNC Asheville, besting the Bulldogs two-nil.

- Presbyterian and Radford make up half of the Big South's four-team group that has exactly two conference W's. Longwood and Charleston Southern are the other pieces in that quartet, jockeying for the right to play the Quarterfinal Round on their home turf.
 


SCOUTING THE OPPONENT
 
- By scoring in the 19^th minute and holding High Point to zero on the board over the full match, Radford picked up their 31^st overall win since the beginning of the 2022 campaign.

- The Highlanders have claimed six regular season championships since their first in 1999, boasting the most Big South Tournament titles of anyone in the league (nine). Four of the last six conference tournament trophies have gone to Radford.

- Four-time Big South Coach of the Year Ben Sohrabi is winding down his 28^th season with the program, the conference's all-time leader in wins and win percentage.

- Radford leads all schools in the division with 33 goals this semester, averaging two scores per game along with a total of 35 assists.

- Lilly Short and Eileen Albers have combined for 14 goals and 34 points, as the Highlanders have posted five draws. However, they've acquired just two outright wins away from home, both of which were non-conference matchups (Mount St. Mary's and Appalachian State).


 
LAST TIME OUT
 
- Presbyterian assembled one of their most well-rounded wins of the calendar during the midweek against UNC Asheville, overcoming a late series of shots from the Bulldogs to win by a pair.

- The Blue Hose went into halftime ahead 1-0 despite not reaching any shots-on-goal. This was due to an Asheville mishap in the 20^th minute that resulted in a rare self-inflicted score.

- Junior forward Sloan Spees shut the door on UNCA with two-and-a-half minutes on the clock by logging her third goal of the season. She joins Lina-Marie Müller, Isabel Lasota, Lindsey Malyszek, and Gwen Keiser in the realm of three goals or more since August.

- PC's defense was up to its usual stinginess as they submitted their second clean sheet in a row, recording their fourth shutout of 2024 after blanking both the Bulldogs and Longwood in the match prior.


 
HALL AT THE TOP
 
- The win over Asheville was the 10^th shutout in the career of keeper Kelly Hall, the Blue Hose anchor who has aided Presby to their highest win count since 2018. She has now surpassed Sarah Beth Anderson (2008-11) for the most shutouts by an individual during PC's 17-year Division I era.

- Under Hall's surveying, the Scotsmen have tallied four shutouts in a sole season for the first time since 2015, ensuring that PC has now gone three consecutive campaigns with a sequence of back-to-back shutouts.

- In her final year with the program, Hall ranks second in the Big South with a goals-against average of 1.06. She has denied 84 percent of all shots that have flown in her direction, a number that tops every player in the conference and ranks just outside the nation's top 30.