High Point  (1-2-3) at UMBC (2-4-0) | Thursday, Sept. 7, 7:00 p.m. | Retriever Soccer Park | Watch | Live Stats | Game Program | International Feed

DAWG BYTES
- The "Rick Stainton Era" began with a bang as the UMBC women's soccer team blanked Kutztown, 2-0, in the season-opener at Retriever Soccer Park on Aug. 17.

- Freshman forward Payton Schenning, Maryland's 2022 Gatorade Girls Player of the Year, headed in the game-winner just two minutes into her career off a gorgeous corner kick into the box from graduate student Lola Negrete.  The Retrievers got an insurance marker in the '70 when freshman striker Cheyenne Payne tapped in a feed from junior midfielder Bella Roppolo from five yards out.

- After falling to Longwood and Drexel, the Dawgs evened their record with a 1-0 victory at LIU last Sunday. Senior forward Meghan McKye struck just 12 minutes in with a laser from 15 yards out after shedding three defenders.

- UMBC junior midfielder Esther Juretzka scored her second career goal in the opening half but the host Towson Tigers scored six unanswered markers and went on to an 8-1 victory on Thursday evening at Tiger Field.

- The hosts scored a pair of goals in the first eleven minutes of the contest, but UMBC got right back into the match in the 19' on a hustle play deep in Towson's territory. McKye won a loose ball along the endline before she was able to locate Juretzka, who was free at the top of the center of the box. Juretzka then snuck a low shot into the right-corner of the goal past the keeper, Riley Melendez, who made a diving attempt to her left. The hosts, however, scored six unanswered times en route to the victory.

- UMBC dropped a 2-0 decision against George Washington on Sunday as the visitors scored twice in the second-half, including a penalty shot that broke the ice.

- Junior keeper Abbey Cowles is third in the America East with 5.33 saves per game.

 A GLANCE AT THE PANTHERS
- The Panthers, who went 5-10-3 last season, have gotten off to a 1-2-3 start in 2023. 

- Bri Davis, HPU's leading returning scorer (5 goals in 2022), scored in the 78th minute to give High Point a 1-0 victory at UNC Greensboro on Aug. 23rd.

- High Point has also earned draws with Campbell, Appalachian State Florida Gulf Coast.

- Leah Malone, Lilly Neubauer and Meg Roden have also scored a goal this season.

- Ellyn Castro has started five contests this season and has yielded six goals in 495:00. She has recorded shutouts versus UNCG and Appalachian State. The University of San Diego transfer was named the Big South Defensive Player of the Week on Aug. 28.

- High Point went 10-8-2 (8-2 Big South) in 2021. The Panthers won the Big South Tournament and went on to face Virginia in the NCAA Tournament.

-The Panthers have taken 32 corner kicks compared to 18 by their opponents.

INSIDE THE SERIES
- First Meeting

UP NEXT
UMBC will host Navy on Sunday at 12:00 p.m.