Stony Brook, N.Y. – For the second consecutive season, the UMBC women's lacrosse team will travel to Stony Brook, N.Y., for the America East Conference Championship Tournament. The Retrievers face the University at Albany in their first-round match-up between the No. 3 and No. 2-seeded teams, on Friday, May 6, at 7:30 p.m. Fans can catch all the first round action live via americaeast.tv, or on Twitter by following @UMBC_WLax.

The winner will advance to Sunday's title game and take on the winner of No. 1 Stony Brook and No. 4 UNH. The championship game starts and noon and will be broadcast on ESPN3.

Scouting the Retrievers (9-7, 3-3 AE)

• The Retrievers secured the three seed by defeating the University of New Hampshire last Saturday at UMBC Stadium by a score of 12-7. UMBC earned the three seed while UNH received the four seed despite both teams finishing the season with 3-3 conference records due to conference tie-breaking procedures.
• Sophomore midfielder Carolyn Jamison scored a game-high five goals and added an assist in the Retrievers' regular season finale, giving her a total of 50 for the season, and making her UMBC's first 50-plus scorer at the NCAA Division I level. The sophomore earned a spot on the America East First-Team All-Conference lineup for the first time in her collegiate career.
• ­­Red-shirt junior attacker Sam Nolan was also named to the America East All-Conference First-Team, and cracked the UMBC top ten lists for points (59) and assists (22) in a single season. The do-it-all attacker put up seven points on three separate occasions during the regular season, and completed hat-tricks in half of the Retrievers games this season (8).

Scouting the Great Danes (10-5, 5-1 AE)

• Albany lost their regular season finale to Stony Brook, 13-4, in a game that decided the regular season conference champion and host of the tournament.
• Attacker Dakotah Savitcheff scored twice in the loss, and led the Great Danes with 53 points this season (50 G, 3 A). Savitcheff and three other Danes were named America East First-Team All-Conference selections.
• Senior goalkeeper Anna Tesoriero made the All-Conference Second-Team, and finished second in the conference in goals-against average (7.04) and save percentage (.474).
• While Albany ranks near the top in the scoring categorizes, they rank fifth out of the seven teams in the conference in draw controls per game (9.47).

Inside the Series

• The last meeting between these teams ended with a 16-6 victory for the Great Danes at UMBC Stadium in early April. Savitcheff scored seven times, and the Danes jumped out to a five-goal lead that the Retrievers could not make up. Jamison and fellow sophomore midfielder Marissa Davey (Ellicott City, Md./Marriotts Ridge) did all the scoring for UMBC, with Jamison netting four and Davey scoring twice.
• The Retrievers and the Great Danes last post-season meeting came during the 2011 tournament, when Albany beat UMBC, 11-4, to claim the America East title.
• Albany leads the all-time series, 9-6.