Women’s Soccer Opens Ivy League Play at Dartmouth Saturday Night

Saturday, September 22

Hanover, NH

7:00 PM

Brown University

Dartmouth

Women’s Soccer Opens Ivy League Play at Dartmouth Saturday Night

9/20/2018 11:40:00 AM | Women's Soccer

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Brown University women's soccer opens Ivy League play at Dartmouth College at Burnham Field on Saturday night at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+), entering the contest on a four-game unbeaten streak (3-0-1).

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LAST TIME OUT
Junior Abby Carchio (Lakeville, Mass.) scored her second goal of the game 21 seconds into overtime to lift Brown to a 3-2 win over the University of Massachusetts Lowell on Tuesday night at Stevenson-Pincince Field. Carchio netted her fourth and fifth goals of the season for a career-high four points while sophomore back Sydney Cummings (Millstone Township, N.J.) scored her second goal in as many games.

CARCHIO CATALYZES OFFENSE
Junior midfielder Abby Carchio (Lakeville, Mass.) leads Brown with 11 points on the year on five goals and an assist and has eclipsed her goal total (three) from her first two seasons combined. She ranks second in the Ivy League in both points and assists. Carchio scored a pair of goals, including the game-winning goal in overtime, in a 3-2 win over UMass Lowell (Sept. 18). In a 2-1 overtime win against Holy Cross (Sept. 9), she scored a goal in the 29^th minute and assisted on the decisive goal in overtime off a corner kick. She scored the game-winning goal in the 45^th minute in a 1-0 win over Sacred Heart (Aug. 31) and netted a goal in a 5-0 win vs. URI (Sept. 16).

CUMMINGS JOINS ATTACK
After not scoring in her first 23 collegiate games, sophomore center back Sydney Cummings (Millstone Township, N.J.) has found the back of the net in back-to-back games. She netted the game-winning goal in Brown's 5-0 win over Rhode Island (Sept. 16) and scored in the 62^nd minute in a 3-2 (OT) win over UMass Lowell (Sept. 18). Both of her goals have come off corner kicks.

BONUS SOCCER
Brown has played in four overtime games thus far in 2018, posting a 2-1-1 record in those contests. The Bears have notched a 2-1 win over Holy Cross (Sept. 9), a 3-2 win over UMass Lowell (Sept. 16), and a 0-0 draw vs. Vermont (Sept. 13). Last season, Brown set a program record with four overtime victories.

ETZEL SELECTED AS SENIOR CLASS AWARD CANDIDATE
Senior goalkeeper Christine Etzel (Madison, Conn.) earned selection as one of 30 candidates for the 2018 Senior CLASS Award in women's soccer for her notable achievements both on and off the field. A three-time All-Ivy and two-time All-New England selection, Etzel (Madison, Conn.) ranks third all-time at Brown in shutouts (21), fourth in wins (30), and ninth in saves (247). A Biology major with a focus on Biotechnology and Physiology, Etzel is a pre-medicine student interested in becoming an Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Surgeon.

QUINTET OF GOALS
In Brown's 5-0 win over Rhode Island (Sept. 16), the Bears scored five goals in a game for the first time since a 5-1 win over Francis Marion on Oct. 12, 2011. Brown gained a five-goal advantage in a game for the first time since a 5-0 win over Sacred Heart on Oct. 15, 2008.

FIRST COLLEGIATE POINTS
In the Bears' 5-0 win over URI (Sept. 16), sophomore Sydney Cummings (Millstone Township, N.J.), freshman Charlotte DeVaughn (Minneapolis, Minn.), and freshman Zoe Maxwell (Irvington, N.Y.) each netted her first career goal. Against the Rams, freshmen Maesyn G'Bye (Ladera Ranch, Calif.) and Claire Myers (Fairport, N.Y.) each posted two assists, marking the first collegiate points for both players.

ROSEN WITH THE WINNER
Freshman forward Rebecca Rosen (Port Washington, N.Y.) scored the game-winning goal in Brown's 2-1 overtime victory over Holy Cross (Sept. 9). She netted her first collegiate goal in the 95^th minute, heading a corner kick from junior Abby Carchio (Lakeville, Mass.) into the back of the net.

ETZEL IN GOAL
Senior goalkeeper Christine Etzel (Madison, Conn.) is now in her fourth season as Brown's starting goalkeeper and has started 55 of the Bears' last 57 games. She ranks second in the Ivy League in saves per game (4.75). Etzel stopped eight shots at Providence (Sept. 6). She totaled 18 saves over Brown's opening weekend, stopping eight shots at Pepperdine (Aug. 24) and 10 shots at UC Santa Barbara (Aug. 26) – her second career game with double-figure saves. She ranks third on Brown's career shutouts list with 21 shutouts, fourth on Brown's career wins list with 30 wins, and ninth on Brown's career saves list with 247 saves. Etzel won the 2016 Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year award and is a three-time All-Ivy selection.

GUERRERO DEBUTS
Making her collegiate debut, sophomore goalkeeper Maria Guerrero (San Juan, Puerto Rico) – who played as the starting goalie for Puerto Rico's national team in World Cup qualifiers in May 2018 – made three saves in a shutout win over Rhode Island (Sept. 16).

DEFENSIVE TOUGHNESS
Through the season's first nine games, the Brown defense has allowed just eight goals for a team GAA of 0.86. As a team, the Bears rank third in the Ivy League in save percentage (.840). Senior goalkeeper Christine Etzel (Madison, Conn.) along with sophomore back Sydney Cummings (Millstone Township, N.J.), senior back Nicole Phillips (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.), and freshmen backs Charlotte DeVaughn (Minneapolis, Minn.) and Lauren Hinton (Middletown, Conn.) have anchored the Bears' defense. Cummings earned Second Team All-Ivy in 2017, and Phillips gained Honorable Mention All-Ivy in 2016.

YOUTH IN LINEUP
Brown features a youthful roster with freshmen and sophomores accounting for 18 of the Bears' 27 student-athletes. Nine freshmen have made starts for the Bears this season. Of the 18 Brown student-athletes who have played in four or more games this season, nine are freshmen, four are sophomores, two are juniors, and three are seniors.

ADDING ASSISTS
Freshman Maesyn G'Bye (Ladera Ranch, Calif.) leads Brown with three assists this season while sophomore Star White (Norfolk, Va.) and freshmen Malina Yago (Culver City, Calif.) and Claire Myers (Fairport, N.Y.) have each posted two assists. In Brown's 2-1 (OT) win over Holy Cross (Sept. 9), junior Andie Gilmore (Walpole, Mass.) and Yago each posted her first assist of the season. In the Bears' 5-0 win over Rhode Island (Sept. 16), G'Bye and Myers each posted two assists, marking the first collegiate points for both players.

NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Since renaming its home pitch Stevenson-Pincince Field prior to the final home game of the 2015 season, Brown has posted a 15-4-4 record at home. The Bears went 6-2-0 at home last season and posted a 4-1-3 mark at home during the 2016 campaign. Thus far in 2018, Brown is 4-1-1 at home.

SCOUTING THE BIG GREEN
Dartmouth carries a 4-3-1 overall record into Saturday's Ivy opener, entering the match-up on a three-game unbeaten streak behind a pair of wins over Albany (3-2) and New Hampshire (2-1, 2OT) and a draw vs. Boston University (0-0, 2OT). Remy Borinsky leads the Big Green with seven points on three goals and an assist. Mariel Gordon has played every minute in goal, registering a 1.05 GAA and .800 save percentage.

ALL-TIME SERIES
Brown and Dartmouth have met 43 times with the all-time record between the two schools tied at 20-20-3. The Bears have won back-to-back games via 1-0 score lines in the series. The two squads have opened Ancient Eight play against one another in each season beginning in 2008.

LAST FALL
In 2017, Brown registered an 11-5-0 overall record, giving the Bears their most wins since going 13-4-0 in 2000. Brown also set a single-season program record with four overtime victories. The Bears tallied six All-Ivy selections, including First Team All-Ivy honoree Abby Carchio '20 (Lakeville, Mass.).

THE LAST THREE SEASONS
The Bears have finished in the top half of the Ivy League standings for three straight years for the first time since 1992-94. In 2015, Brown went 7-7-2 overall (3-3-1 Ivy) to place third, in 2016 the team finished 9-2-5 overall (4-1-2 Ivy) for second place, and in 2017 the Bears went 11-5-0 (4-3-0) for fourth place.

WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS
Sophomore back Sydney Cummings (Millstone Township, N.J.) and sophomore goalkeeper Maria Guerrero (San Juan, Puerto Rico) competed in World Cup qualifiers in May 2018, taking part in the Caribbean Zone's regional qualification tournament.

Representing Guyana, Cummings earned her first three career international caps and scored her first career international goal in a 6-1 win over Suriname. Representing Puerto Rico, Guerrero garnered her first three career caps at the senior level. She previously served as a reserve goalkeeper for the senior team and competed for Puerto Rico at the U20 and U17 levels. Both Guyana and Puerto finished second in their respective groups, falling one spot shy of advancing to the qualification tournament's final round.

THE CAPTAINS
Senior goalkeeper Christine Etzel (Madison, Conn.) and senior forward/midfielder Celia Story (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) will serve Brown as captains for the 2018 season. Etzel returns for her second season as a captain for the Bears.

YEAR THREE
Head coach Kia McNeill enters her third season as the head women's soccer coach at Brown University in 2018-19, leading the Bears to their highest finish in the league standings since 1994 in her inaugural season in 2016 and guiding the Bears to their most wins since 2000 in her second season in 2017. She returns her top two assistants from the last two seasons in Matt Mones and Raleigh DeRose, while adding Andre Reis as the team's volunteer goalkeeper coach.

COMING SOON
After playing at Dartmouth, Brown hosts Columbia in its Ivy League home opener on Saturday, Sept. 29 at 3:30 p.m. (ESPN+).

TICKETS!
Tickets for all Brown women's soccer games can be purchased online, by calling the Brown Athletics Ticket Office at (401) 863-2773, or by walking up to the box office located in the Pizzitola Sports Center, open Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.