Game 15 at Southern Indiana
Sunday, October 12, 1 pm
Evansville, Ind. (Korte Stadium)
Video: ESPN+  Live Stats: sidearmstats.com/usi/wsoc/

SIUE Cougars
Record: 2-9-3/1-2-2 Ohio Valley
Head Coach: Derek Burton
Goals P/G: 0.86
Goals Allowed P/G: 2.36
Shots/Opponent Shots: 113/247
Shots Per Game/Opponent: 8.1/17.6
Shots Percentage/Opponent: .106/.134
Shots On Goal/Opponent: 55-113/113-247
Shots On Goal Perc./Opponent: .514/.482
Goals Leaders: Savannah DeFini (3)
Assists Leader: Anna Zichella (3)
Shots Leader: Savannah DeFini (26)

Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles
Record: 5-5-4/2-0-3 OVC
Head Coach: Eric Schoenstein
Goals P/G: 1.36
Goals Allowed P/G: 1.57
Shots/Opponent Shots: 172/167
Shots Per Game/Opponent: 13.5/13.1
Shots Percentage/Opponent: .110/.132
Shots On Goal/Opponent: 64-172/66-167
Shots On Goal Perc./Opponent: .372/.395
Goals Leaders: Four Tied (3)
Assists Leader: Emerson Grafton/Peyton Murphy  (3)
Shots Leader: Emerson Grafton (29)

• This is the 19th all-time meeting between the Cougars and the Screaming Eagles. SIUE holds an 11-3-4 advantage in the series. The last three contests in this series have ended in ties. The last SIUE win was 2007, a 1-0 victory in Edwardsville. The last USI win was a 2-1 contest in 2003.
• Savannah DeFini leads the team in goals scored with three and in shots with 26 after recording four against Lindenwood. DeFini has 14 shots in her last three games.
• Claire Nieroda, who had been the team leader in shots, scored her first career goal in the win over Western Illinois. Nieroda scored off a restart just outside the box after a foul.
• Sarah Bozeman posted her second shutout as a Cougar Thursday in the 0-0 tie with Lindenwood. She has 69 saves this season in 13 games played.
• The 17-shot effort against Western Illinois was the second straight game in which the Cougars posted a season high in shots attempted. SIUE had 16 in the loss at Little Rock.
• SIUE is in seventh place in the OVC standings with a 1-2-2 record (five points). Southern Indiana is tied for third with nine points (2-0-3 record).
• Anna Zichella is tied for second in the OVC in assists with three. She trails only Little Rock's Maria Schuller and Tennessee Tech's Melina Hamm with four.
• After Sunday's game, SIUE has home contests against Southeast Missouri (Oct. 16) and Morehead (Oct. 19) as well as the regular season finale (Oct. 26) at UT Martin.
• This is the 18th season for Head Coach Derek Burton, who took over the SIUE women's soccer program when it jumped to the Division I level before the 2008 season. Burton has led SIUE to five Ohio Valley Conference titles and five NCAA Tournament appearances (2014, 2016, 2020, 2021 and 2022).