The American International College women's soccer team seeks to improve to 3-0-0 in Northeast-10 play when they host the Assumption Greyhounds under the lights at Abdow Field.

LAST TIME OUT: The Yellow Jackets poured a dazzling array of shots on target but needed overtime to take down New Haven, 2-1, in their most recent contest. It was the Chargers who struck first, as Danielle Matassa fired a shot on goal that eluded sophomore goalkeeper Madison Brown in the twenty-first minute. The Yellow Jackets responded with their most brilliant second half of the season, taking 13 attempts at the net, with seven on target, and finally in the seventy-first minute sophomore midfielder Federica Frew forced the ball home by deking out the goalkeeper and then tapping it into the empty net. That set up the overtime, where senior midfielder Stephanie Tweer started and finished a give-and-go play with sophomore midfielder Johanna Nilsson to win the contest.
Assumption edged out Saint Anselm 1-0 on Saturday on a mid-second half goal by Amanda Arnold, who took a pass from Emily Hill, dribbled into the middle of the box, and fired low left for her NE-10 leading seventh of the season. Saint Anselm outshot Assumption 10-7 in the first half, but the Hounds responded with an 11-2 advantage in the latter frame. Goalkeeper Alexis Nason earned her first win in the contest, stopping all five shots on goal she faced.

LAST TIME THEY MET: Assumption and AIC battled to a scoreless draw after 110 minutes in the Northeast-10 Championship Tournament Quarterfinals at Abdow Field on November 3, 2015. The game was decided on penalties, which the Greyhounds won by a 5-3 margin. Assumption held a 14-10 shot attempt advantage and a 7-0 edge in corner kicks, but managed just one shot on target in the contest to AIC's 3.
In the regular season, the Yellow Jackets topped the Greyhounds 2-0 on September 22, 2015. Alyssa Werbicki '16 scored the winning tally in the forty-eighth minute and also assisted on a goal by sophomore midfielder Rachel Brown. The contest was wide open, with Assumption taking 26 shot attempts to AIC's 12 and putting nine shots on target to the Jackets' eight, but former Assumption goalkeeper Rachel Edgin '16 shut out her former squad.

HOUNDING HER OPPONENTS: Assumption's Amanda Arnold is off to an impressive start to the 2016 campaign. The junior forward leads the Northeast-10 with seven tallies and 16 points overall. She has at least one goal in five of the six contests her team has played so far.

AND THE AWARD GOES TO: Both AIC and Assumption took home a weekly award from the conference office, as Yellow Jackets senior midfielder Jessica Margaretta earned Defensive Player of the Week honors and Greyhound rookie goalkeeper Alexis Nason was named Rookie of the Week.

WIN-TERNATIONAL: Each of the game winning goals scored so far for the Yellow Jackets have come from a player who calls a different country home. Taylor Kue (United States), Johanna Englund (Sweden), and Stephanie Tweer (Germany) have each scored a goal to decide a game in AIC's favor. Federica Frew (Australia) adds a fourth different flag to the list of scorers this season.

NEXT UP: AIC heads west to take on the College of Saint Rose on Saturday, September 24 at 3:00 p.m. in Albany.