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KENNESAW, Ga. – The Kennesaw State soccer team is set to enter the 2012 Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament as the No. 3 seed and will face off against the No. 6 seed North Florida Ospreys on Saturday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. ET at KSU Stadium.
The winner of Saturday’s contest will advance to the tournament semifinals on Friday, Nov. 2, hosted by regular season champions Florida Gulf at the FGCU Soccer Complex in Fort Myers, Fla. The A-Sun Tournament champion will then be crowned on Sunday, Nov. 4.
Live stats, video and audio will be available for both matches via ksuowls.com.
Tickets will be available for $6, with general admission seating in the stadium. Tickets can be purchased online at ksuowls.com, by clicking the “Purchase Tickets” link in the middle of the website, or by calling the athletics ticket office at (770) 423-6957. No Valpak or BOGO vouchers will be accepted at Saturday’s contest. All A-Sun Conference students, along with Kennesaw State University faculty and staff, will receive free admission to the match.
Kennesaw State (10-7-1, 6-2-1) owns a 10-1-1 mark in the all-time series versus North Florida, having faced the Ospreys earlier this season and coming away with a 4-2 win on Oct. 12 at KSU Stadium. The Owls and UNF have never met each other in the conference tournament, with both teams earning their respective seeds for the first time in tournament history. KSU owns a 4-2-2 record in tournament action, while UNF is 1-2-0, with the No. 3 seeds posting an 8-3-3 mark against No. 6 seeds.
Kennesaw State dropped a 1-0 heartbreaker to Florida Gulf Coast last Friday as Julia Roddar scored the game-winning goal in the 65th minute at the FGCU Soccer Complex. The Owls bounced back two days later, with a 3-0 win at Stetson in Sunday’s regular season finale at the Stetson Soccer Complex, securing the No. 3 seed in the 2012 A-Sun Conference Tournament. KSU tallied goals from sophomore midfielder
Nicole Calder (Adelaide, Australia/Westminster), sophomore forward
Heather Joyce (Carrolton, Ga./Carrolton HS) and redshirt-sophomore forward
Katrina Frost (Fayetteville, Ga./South Carolina), with a pair of assists coming from redshirt-sophomore defender
Jewelia Strickland (Fayetteville, Ga./Alabama), along with assists from Joyce and junior defender
Kelsey Barr (Douglasville, Ga./South Carolina).
North Florida finished the regular season with a record of 7-9-2 overall and tallied a sixth place finish in league action with a 5-3-1 mark to earn the No. 6 seed in the conference tournament. The Ospreys have lost three of their last four matches, including losses to Kennesaw State, Mercer and East Tennessee State, and have been outscored 12 to three in those contests. The lone win for UNF came at home against USC Upstate, a 7-1 win over the Spartans.
Junior Thea Linkfield leads the UNF offense with 16 points on six goals and four assists, while sophomore Carolina Lencina has tallied 13 points on five goals and three assists. Redshirt-senior Brittany Hahn and sophomore Rachel Beninati have split time in goal for the Ospreys, with Beninati playing 1,076 minutes in 2012 and Hahn seeing 575 minutes this season. Beninati owns a 5-6-1 record and has given up 23 goals in 13 matches for a 1.92 goals-against average, while Hahn is 2-3-1 on the year and has allowed 11 goals in seven contests for a 1.72 goals-against average.
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Kennesaw State University is celebrating 30 years of intercollegiate athletics during the 2012-13 academic year.
