Ducks Begin Four Game Homestand with Bonnies, Catamounts
This Week: Pape’ Field welcomes the Ducks (3-3, 2-0 MPSF) home as they host four teams from the East Coast, starting with St. Bonaventure (0-0, 0-0 Atlantic 10) and Vermont (1-2, 0-0 America East). The Ducks will play the Bonnies on Thurs., March 8 at 7 p.m. and the Catamounts Mon., March 12 at 7 p.m.
The match against St. Bonaventure is part of Oregon’s Yell-O campaign, where tickets to the match will be $2 for those fans wearing their Yell-O T-shirts.
The Vermont tilt will be broadcast live on the Oregon Sports Network (Comcast channel 14).
Scouting St. Bonaventure: The Bonnies will be playing their first game of the season when the visit Pape’ Field on Thursday. Last year as a freshman, Katelynn Faas led St. Bonaventure with 56 goals, adding 14 assists for a team-leading 70 points. Brenna Houghton had 39 assists to lead the team, as she added 16 goals of her own to become the team’s second leading point scorer with 55.
Ducks vs. Bonnies: This will mark the first meeting between the two teams.
Scouting Vermont: The Catamounts have been led by a pair of sophomores in the young season thus far. Tori Wasson and Kristen Millar have combined for 16 points on the year. While Wasson leads the team with seven goals, Millar has four goals and four assists as well as 17 draw controls, far and away the team leader.
Ducks vs. Catamounts: Jana Bradley netted a hat trick to lead the Ducks in a 15-7 victory over the Cats last year, while five other Ducks had at least two goals in the victory.
East Coast Spring Break Brings Matches to Pape’: Come watch some great teams from the East Coast play each other at Oregon’s Pape’ Field during the next two weeks as:
- Vermont and St. Bonaventure will play each other on Sat., March 10 at 1 p.m.
- Colgate and Vermont will face each other at 5 p.m. on Thurs., March 15 as an appetizer for the Ducks match against Longwood at 7 p.m.
- Vermont will take on Longwood at 11 a.m. on Sat., March 17 before the Ducks tilt with Colgate at 1 p.m.
Admission to the non-Oregon matches is free to all.
Goalie Down: Oregon goalkeeper Anna Poponyak will be out indefinitely following a knee injury in last weeks match against UMBC in which an attacker fell on the sophomore ten minutes into the game. Poponyak had an MRI early in the week and will be reevaluated later in the week to determine the extent of the injury.
Freshman Sam Debow, who head coach Jen Larsen has called “a technically exceptional goalkeeper,” will be pressed into action. In limited net minding this year, the Olney, Md. native has allowed 21 goals in 131 minutes, making 15 saves.
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