Match 2: Kennesaw State (1-0) at Georgia State (1-0)
Date: Monday, August 24 at 7 p.m. ET
Location: GSU Soccer Complex | Atlanta, Ga.
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Series History: Kennesaw State leads 3-1-1
Last Meeting: Kennesaw State and Georgia State tied 1-1 in double overtime on Aug. 25, 2014 in Kennesaw, Ga.
 
Game Preview
The Kennesaw State Soccer team will make the short trip to Atlanta, Ga., for its first road match of the season, facing off regional rival Georgia State on Monday (Aug. 24) at 7 p.m. ET in the GSU Soccer Complex.
 
Reed's Double Hat Trick Leads Owls to 12-0 Season-Opening Victory over AAMU
The Kennesaw State soccer team put on a record-setting performance to open the 2015 season as redshirt-junior Brittney Reed registered a double hat trick to lead the Owls in a 12-0 drilling of Alabama A&M on Friday night (Aug. 21) at Fifth Third Bank Stadium.
 
Key Players: Brittney Reed (six goals on 12 shots), Cassidy Kemp (two goals on six shots), Hannah Churchill (one goal, two assists), Kim Fincher (one goal, two assists)
 
KSU Team Notes
- The Owls' win over Alabama A&M registers the first season-opening win for the Owls since 2010 and the first home-opening win since 2011.
 
- KSU as a team set two program records against the Bulldogs, including the most points (32) registered in a single game and most goals score (12) in a single game.
 
- The Owls also had the fourth most shots (36) in a contest and their eight assists tied for the sixth-most helpers in a single game.
 
- Redshirt-junior Brittney Reed's 12 points and six goals set program records for most points and goals in a single match.
 
- Reed's six goals is just one off of the NCAA Division I record of seven goals scored in a single match - set by Sarah Comeauz of Ole Miss in 1996 and equaled by Kristen Arnott of Saint Francis (PA) in 2000.
 
- Reed's 12 points against the Bulldogs ranks in a tie for 13th for points in a single match in NCAA Division I history, four points off of the NCAA record of 16, set by Arnott in 2000 and equaled by Ashley Fortune of Francis Marion in 2007.
 
- Reed's five goals in the first half equals the NCAA Division I record for most goals in a half – tying Brittney Lyman of Colorado College, who scored five second-half goals against UTEP in 2009.
 
- Junior Cassidy Kemp earned her first career point on her first career assist on Reed's third goal in the 14th minute. She would go on to score her first career goal in the 18th minute of the match, before notching her second in the 56th minute.
 
- Also earning career-firsts: junior Kim Fincher registered her first career point on an assist, followed by her first career goal in the 29th minute and added a second score in the second half and sophomore Ida Hepsoe tallied her first career point on an assist in the 27th minute.
 
2015 Stat Leaders
Minutes: 90, Hannah Churchill, Shannon Driscoll, Ida Hepsoe, Carly Pressgrove, Abby Roth
Points: 12, Brittney Reed
Goals: 6, Brittney Reed
Assists: 2, Hannah Churchill, Kim Fincher
Shots: 12, Brittney Reed
Shots on Goal: 10, Brittney Reed
Goals against Average: 0.00, Catherine McDuff, Ashley Zambetti
Saves: 1, Ashley Zambetti
 
Next Up
The Owls return home to Fifth Third Bank Stadium for a pair of matches next weekend, first hosting Chattanooga on Friday (Aug. 28), before taking on Clayton State on Sunday (Aug. 30). Both matches are slated to kick off at 7 p.m.
 
To keep up with the latest Kennesaw State soccer news follow the team on Twitter @KSUOwlNation and @KSUOwlsSoccer or by liking Kennesaw State University on Facebook.
 
Fifth Third Bank is the Official Bank of Kennesaw State Athletics. Fifth Third Bank Stadium is the home of women's soccer, women's lacrosse and football, which will play its inaugural season in 2015.