MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin women's soccer team welcomes South Dakota State on Friday night for its annual PAC the MAC game before facing Loyola-Chicago on the road at 7 p.m. on Monday.
 

Game #7 | Wisconsin (1-2-3) vs. South Dakota State (2-3-1)
Date	Friday, Sept. 9 | 5 p.m. CT
Location	Madison, Wis. | McClimon Complex | Tickets
Live Video	BTN2GO
Live Stats	Statistics
Live Coverage	Twitter
Promotion	PAC the MAC
Game Notes	Wisconsin Get Adobe Acrobat Reader | S Get Adobe Acrobat Readerouth Dakota State

Game #8 | Wisconsin (1-2-3) vs. Loyola Chicago (2-2)
Date	Monday, Sept. 12 | 7 p.m. CT
Location	Chicago, Ill. | Loyola Soccer Park
Live Stats	Statistics
Live Coverage	Twitter
Game Notes	Wisconsin Get Adobe Acrobat Reader | Loyola Chicago

STARTING XI
1. Senior Rose Lavelle was ranked the No. 1 Player in the Country by Top Drawer Soccer in their preseason top 100 poll.
2. This past weekend, the Badgers tied the Santa Clara team that was ranked No. 22 in the country at the time.
3. Senior Micaela Powers leads the team in goals after notching her second goal against Stanford (9/1).
4. Sophomore Emily Borgmann is the only player this season to record both a goal and an assist.
5. Both Borgmann and junior Sydney McGinnis lead the team in assists with one each.
6. Junior goalkeeper Caitlyn Clem earned a season-high six saves against Stanford.
7. Clem currently ranks third in the country for goalie minutes played (600) and 53rd in the country for shutouts with two.
8. Allie Winterfield is the only freshman to start all four games this season.
9. Head coach Paula Wilkins is on the brink of her 100th win at Wisconsin. 
10. This marks the third meeting between Wisconsin and South Dakota State. The Badgers lead the series 2-0-1.
11. Loyola and UW have met four times with the Badgers leading the series 4-0-0.

SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS

• SOUTH DAKOTA STATE
  • The Jackrabbits are 2-3-1 thus far this season, picking up wins against Northern Iowa and North Dakota
  • SDSU earned its second consecutive Summit League Tournament title last season after defeating top-seeded North Dakota State 3-0
  • The reigning Summit League Tournament champions have been tabbed to finish second in the conference in the preseason polls
  • The team is also coming off of its second consecutive appearance in the NCAA College Cup
  • Head coach Lang Wedemeyer has been with the team since their inauguration in 2000
  • Wedemeyer has guided the Jackrabbits to the NCAA College Cup three times, including one trip that occured during the team's first year of postseason eligibility in 2008
  • After upsetting then-No. 14 Colorado in the first round of the College Cup that year, Wedemeyer wan named South Dakota Sportswriters Women's College Coach of the Year and was Soccerbuzz.com's runner-up coach of the year
• LOYOLA-CHICAGO
  • The Ramblers are hungry for their first win of the season after going 0-3-2 thus far
  • The team opened-up their season with a 0-0 draw against UW-Green Bay while falling to Fordham a couple of days later 0-1
  • Loyola's losing streak continued as they gave up games to Arizona State (0-4) and Valparaiso (2-3) the following weekend
  • The team picked itself back up last week after tying Eastern Michigan 1-1 after a tough battle through two periods of overtimeAfter being picked to finish sixth last season in the Missouri Valley Conference, the team made it to the conference championship before falling to Evansville in a shootout
  • This season, the Ramblers are slotted to finish second in conference standings
  • Senior Shelby Koch and sophomores Taylor Lambouris and Jenna Szczesny were chosen to the MVC preseason team
    Koch, who started 20 games last season, earned Second-Team All-MVC last season after recording three goals and two assists
    Lambouris also garnered Honorable Mention All-MVC honors last season while also being named to the league's All-Freshman Team her first year
  • Szczesny also was a part of the All-Freshman Team last year while also earning Second-Team All-MVC honors last season
  • Head coach Barry Bimbi led the Ramblers to their fifth winning season in program history last year going 9-7-5 overall, which was one win away from a birth in the NCAA Tournament

SERIES HISTORY

• This marks the third meeting between Wisconsin and South Dakota State. The Badgers lead the series 2-0-1. 
• Loyola and UW have met four times with the Badgers leading the series 4-0-0.

LAST TIME OUT

• The Wisconsin women's soccer team capped off the team's trip to California with a 1-1 draw against No. 22 Santa Clara at Stevens Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
• Wisconsin didn't hesitate to get the game going as Emily Borgmann notched her first goal of the season in the 16th minute of action.
• The sophomore forward was able to find the back of the net on an unassisted play from inside the penalty area which put Badgers on top, 1-0.
• But it only took Santa Clara a little more than two minutes to avenge the Badgers' goal when the Broncos' Julie Vass swiped one past junior goalkeeper Caitlyn Clem to find the back left of the net, tying the game at 1-1.
• The Cardinal and White had a chance to come away with the win late in regulation when sophomore Steph Fabry launched a shot into an open goal in the 87th minute, but the ball bounced off the crossbar.
  Santa Clara also had a last-minute opportunity to take the game when Katie Pingel took two back-to-back shots at the Badgers' net in the 89th minute, but Clem dove into action to save both of Pingel's attempts. With both teams failing to net a goal, the game went into its first period of overtime still deadlocked at 1-1.
• The first ten minutes of overtime proved to be a struggle for both teams to get an effective offensive strike going as SCU's Brittany Ambrose was the only player from either team to get off a shot, and with that the game was forced to go into double overtime. The Badgers' offense came out a bit more energetic in the second overtime period with both Fabry and Borgmann getting off shots, but in the end the team had to settle with a 1-1 draw.
• Borgmann and Fabry led the team in shots with two apiece while Borgmann also led the team in shots on goal with two. Clem was able to earn three saves during the game while SCU's goalkeeper Courtney Ogren had six.
•  The Wisconsin women's soccer team fell to a worthy opponent in No. 2 Stanford, 2-1, on the road on Thursday night. Senior Micaela Powers helped the Badgers to cut Stanford's early 2-0 lead late in the game but UW (1-2-2) dropped its second contest of the season as the Cardinal improved to 4-0.
• The Cardinal struck quickly, scoring both of its goals nearly just one minute apart in the 10th minute and 12th minute of the game. Stanford's Andi Sullivan had the assist on the first goal, which was scored by Kyra Carusa, and netted the second goal off of a penalty kick for her first goal of the season.
• Wisconsin's goalkeeper Caitlyn Clem was tested plenty more after the Cardinal took a two-goal lead, but she and the Badger defense were able to hold Stanford off as she recorded a season-high six saves on the night.
• But it was Powers who brought the Badgers back into the game in the 80th minute of the match. With time winding down, Emily Borgmann crossed the perfect pass to Powers who headed in the shot, cutting Stanford's lead to 2-1. It was Powers' second goal of the season, already making it the most season goals she's had in her career.