DAYTON – The University of Dayton women's soccer team finishes the non-conference portion of the 2025 slate by welcoming Akron to Baujan Field on Friday night at 7 p.m. The Flyers will honor 10 senior student-athletes prior to the game.
ABOUT DAYTON
Dayton (2-3-2) is looking to win its first match of the season at Baujan Field on Friday night. Senior keeper
Batoul Reda has 32 saves on the season, her most through seven games in her career. The Dearborn, Mich. native has an .821 save percentage on the season. Sophomore
Liv Grenda leads the team in points with three (1 goal, 1 assist), while redshirt sophomore
Olivia Baca and sophomore
Laney Smith also have a goal.
SCOUTING AKRON
The Zips (3-1-1) are off to a hot start in 2025, winning each of their last two matches over Southern Indiana (5-3) and Green Bay (2-0). Addison Hall and Emma King lead Akron with five points, each scoring two goals and adding an assist. Fineen Cregan has four points thanks to a goal and two assists. The Zips are averaging 1.60 goals scored per game and while allowing 1.20.
SERIES STUFF
Dayton and Akron have played one another five times in program history, with the Flyers winning all five of those meetings. The Flyers traveled to the Rubber City to play the Zips in 2023, coming away with a 5-2 win. UD scored five unanswered goals, with current senior
Karli Ferguson scoring her second career goal in the victory.
LAST TIME OUT
• Dayton was shut out for the fourth time this season at Louisville on Sunday, falling 2-0 to the Cardinals.
• Senior keeper
Batoul Reda finished with seven saves in the contest.
• Louisville came into the match leading all of NCAA Division I with 5.0 goals per game and finished the night with 20 total shots.
• The Flyers had three shots on goal from
Ella Raimondi,
Liv Grenda and
Lauren Fields.
SENIOR NIGHT
• Dayton will honor 10 senior student-athletes prior to its match against Akron on tonight.
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Karli Ferguson (Chicago, Ill.),
Morgan Gerak (Villa Heights, Ky.),
Jenna Hallbeck (Dayton, Ohio),
Kyra Karfonta (South Lyon, Mich.),
Riley Kerber (Medina, Ohio),
Ella Raimondi (Erie, Pa.),
Batoul Reda (Dearborn, Mich.),
Molly Russell (Henderson, Nev.),
Aya Saiki (Nishinomiya, Japan), and
Sophie Weeks (Reston, Va.) will be recognized approximately 10 minutes before the match begins.
SENIOR STATS
• This year's senior class has won 45 games to this point with a .735 winning percentage. That's tied for the fourth-most wins for a class in the last decade (2024 - 55; 2015 - 50; 2023 - 48; 2016 - 45) and is the second-best winning percentage (2024 - .741).
•Dayton's defense has been the key to its success during the class of 2025's tenure, compiling 39 clean sheets in 68 matches played.
•Keeper
Batoul Reda has amassed a program record 31 shutouts between the posts, breaking a 23-year-old record.
• Defender
Kyra Karfonta was named a United Soccer Coaches Preseason Defender to Watch after a junior season in which she scored five goals and had six assists for 16 points.
ON THE HORIZON - ATLANTIC 10 PLAY STARTS NEXT WEEK
• The Flyers begin Atlantic 10 action next week at La Salle and look to continue their recent run of success in conference play.
• UD has won 22 matches in A-10 play and posted a win percentage of .817 over the last three seasons.
• Dayton scored 18 goals and totaled 52 points in 10 conference games last season, while the defense allowed just six goals and posted six shutouts.
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Laney Smith led the team with five goals and an assist, while
Kyra Karfonta had three goals and three assists, and
Liv Grenda added two goals and a helper.
• The Flyers attempted 14.6 shots per game and scored 1.8 goals per contest.
UP NEXT
• Dayton begins Atlantic 10 Conference action on the road after a full week of rest, traveling to the City of Brotherly Love to take on La Salle on Saturday, Sept. 20 at 1 p.m.
• The Flyers welcome Loyola Chicago to Baujan Field for the A-10 home opener on Thursday, Sept. 25 for a 7 p.m.
