DAYTON –  The University of Dayton women's soccer team (5-6-3, 3-1-2 A-10) continues Atlantic 10 play with a home match this Thursday, Oct. 17 at 7:30 p.m. ET at Baujan Field vs. Duquesne (5-5-2, 3-3-0 A-10). The match will be streamed on ESPN+ with Alex Mikos on the call. It is Dayton's Breast Cancer Awareness match. 

The Flyers are on a three-game unbeaten streak in Atlantic 10 Conference play and currently third in the A-10 standings. UD's last three matches include a 1-0 road win at St. Bonaventure and a 3-2 come-from-behind victory over Davidson on the Flyers' senior day, and a 1-1 tie at UMass.

PROMOTIONS
• Thunder sticks and vuvuzelas for fans. 
• Pink Ribbon Girls and ZTA will be in attendance for the Breast Cancer Awareness night. 
• You can place a bid on the Flyers' ribbon jerseys via email to Baleigh Reid at breid1@udayton.edu or in person at any of the Flyers' remaining home matches. 

THE SERIES
• Dayton leads the all-time series 16-3-2 vs. Duquesne.
• The last meeting was last season in Pittsburgh on Sept. 23, 2018 and resulted in a 0-0 tie. The Dukes have won two of the last four matches (3-1 at Baujan Field on Oct. 12, 2017 and 2-0 at Duquesne on Oct. 27, 2016).
• In 2015, the Dukes won the A-10 Championship as the No. 7 seed and it started with a 1-1 tie vs. the Flyers in the first round at Davidson. Duquesne advanced on PKs, 3-2. 
• The Flyers are 10-2-0 overall when hosting Duquesne at Baujan Field. 

FLYER FACTS
•  The Flyers went 2-5-1 overall in the non-conference portion of their 2019 schedule. 
•  Dayton is 4-2-1 at Baujan Field this season, and 1-4-2 on the road, picking up its first road win of the season with a 1-0 win at St. Bonaventure. 
•  The Flyers snapped a four-game losing streak with a 1-0 win over Eastern Michigan on Sunday, Sept. 15 to close out non-conference play. 
•  UD opened Atlantic 10 play with a 2-0 shutout over George Mason at Baujan on Sept. 22. The Flyers followed that with a 0-0 tie vs. Rhode Island at home. The three-match shutout streak was ended by a 4-1 loss at Saint Louis. 
•  Dayton bounced back with the shutout victory over SBU, a 3-2 come-from-behind win over Davidson, and a 1-1 tie at Massachusetts to improve to 3-1-2 in A-10 play and third place in the standings. 
•  Four of UD's six losses have been by one goal (Illinois 3-2, DePaul 1-0, Bowling Green 2-1 in double overtime - with just six seconds left in the match, and Indiana State 1-0). 
• Dayton's leading scorers are three freshmen: Alexis Goins with six goals and three assists (15 points), Laney Huber with three goals and four assists (10 points), and Landy Mertz with two goals and two assists (six points).
• Huber leads the Flyers in assists with four. Goins, Senior Micayla Livingston, and freshman Yaiza Navarro Leon have three assists each. 
• Nine different Flyers have scored goals this season: Goins (6), Huber (3), senior Jordan Pauley and Mertz (2), and freshmen Jessica Sheldon and Audrey Steiert, sophomore Izzy Greene, and seniors Micayla Livingston and Caroline Mink (1). 
• Five different Flyers have scored game-winning goals: Sheldon (vs. Davidson), Goins (vs. St. Bonaventure), Livingston (vs. George Mason), Huber (vs. Eastern Michigan) and Mink (vs. Miami).
• Redshirt sophomore Carly Becker has started 13 matches in goal for Dayton. She has 34 saves and a 1.52 GAA with five shutouts. Senior Emily Jones earned her first collegiate start vs. UMass. She had seven saves in the match. 

UP NEXT
•  The Flyers play at VCU this Sunday, Oct. 20 at 1 p.m. ET in Richmond, Va. 

SCOUTING DUQUESNE
• Duquesne is 5-5-2 overall and 3-3-0 in A-10 play, currently in a three-way tie for seventh place, with just two points separating them from Dayton in third place. 
• The Dukes are 0-5-1 in road games this season.
• Junior Deena DeBaldo leads the Dukes in scoring with 8 goals and 2 assists (18 points). 
• Sophomore Megan Virgin has started 12 matches in goal for Duquesne with 46 saves and a 1.34 GAA.
• Al Alvine is in his eighth season as head coach of the Dukes. 

BELIEVIN' IN BAUJAN 
• The Flyers are 230-74-24 all-time in games played on Baujan Field. 

FRESHMEN FLYER DUO EARN A-10 HONORS
Freshman Alexis Goins was named the A-10 Women's Soccer Player of the Week, while fellow freshman Jessica Sheldon shared A-10 Rookie of the Week honors for matches played Sept. 30-Oct.6.

Goins led the Flyers with five points in Dayton's 2-0-0 week in Atlantic 10 play. Goins scored the lone goal in a 1-0 road win at St. Bonaventure Thursday night. The rookie from Fairfield, Ohio scored a goal to tie the match vs. Davidson and then had the assist on the game-winning goal vs. the Wildcats Sunday, a match in which the Flyers came back from a 2-0 deficit to win 3-2. She leads the Flyers with six goals this season. 
 
Sheldon scored the game-winning goal and had an assist in Dayton's 3-2 come-from-behind win over Davidson Sunday at Baujan Field. The forward from Medina, Ohio, had an assist on the game-tying goal vs. the Wildcats. She then scored the game-winning goal in the 66th minute. It was her first-ever collegiate goal and her first-ever collegiate assist.

Earlier this year, Laney Huber was named A-10 Rookie of the Week for games played Sept. 9-15. Huber led the Flyers with six shots (including a team-high three on goal), a .333 shot percentage, five points, two goals, and an assist in Dayton's 1-1 week. The Loveland, Ohio, native had a goal and an assist in UD's loss to undefeated Louisville and a team-high five shots and the game-winning goal in UD's 1-0 win over Eastern Michigan to close out non-conference action.

FLYER PRESEASON PREVIEW
•  The Flyers went 8-9-2 overall last season. UD returns 16 letterwinners from that squad and they have 10 newcomers. 
• Senior Micayla Livingston is Dayton's leading returning scorer with 12 points. 
• Sophomore Izzy Greene, a 2018 A-10 All-Rookie selection, was UD's second leading scorer last year with 2 goals and 2 assists. 
• Key losses for the Flyers include four-year starting goalkeeper Kaelyn Johns who had 18 career shutouts, as well as Beth Kamphaus and Nadia Pestell, both four-year starting defenders.
• Head coach Eric Golz is in his third season at the helm of the Flyers. He previously served as an assistant at UD in 2011. 

DAYTON'S A-10 BACKGROUND 
• Dayton has won the A-10 Tournament Championship more than any other team in the conference: 10 times (1996, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2016). 
• UD has also won or shared 11 Atlantic 10 Regular Season titles (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2013). The next closest is Massachusetts with five. 
• Dayton has appeared in 22 A-10 tournaments, earning a berth every year the Flyers have been a member of the conference. 

FLYERS PICKED 6TH IN A-10 POLL
• The Dayton women's soccer team was selected to finish sixth in the 2019 Atlantic 10 standings in a vote by the league's 14 head coaches. They were picked to finish seventh last year and ended the season in eighth place with the final spot into the A-10 Tournament. 
• Defending champion Saint Louis was picked to finish first with 192 points and 13 first-place votes. 
• The top eight teams will compete in the 2019 Atlantic 10 Women's Soccer Championship. The opening rounds will be held on the campus of the higher seeds on Nov. 2 and 3. The top four teams will then advance to play at Saint Louis' Hermann Stadium in the semifinals on Friday, Nov. 8. The championship final will be held on Sunday, Nov. 10 with the winner earning the A-10's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. All rounds of the championship will be streamed on ESPN+.

FANTASTIC FRESHMEN 
• Dayton's freshmen have a history of making an impact. 
• Current freshmen Alexis Goins, Landy Mertz, Yaiza Navarro Leon, and Audrey Steiert have started every match for the Flyers. Laney Huber (10 starts), Jessica Sheldon (four starts), and Marlee Taylor have played in all 14 matches. Mackenzie Lutz has played in 13 matches with 12 starts. Goins (6 goals), Huber (3 goals & team-high 4 assists), Mertz (2 goals), Sheldon and Steiert have each scored this season. Navarro Leon has three assists. 
• Izzy Greene was named to the 2018 A-10 All-Rookie Team. 
• Micayla Livingston and Caroline Mink were both named to the 2016 A-10 All-Rookie Team.