VERMILLION, S.D. – The South Dakota Coyotes host North Dakota State Thursday and Saturday. The Yotes will play their final home games of the spring season this weekend against the Bison and play their first home night game of the season under the lights at the First Bank & Trust Soccer Complex.
The Rundown
Opponent: North Dakota State (6-6)
Dates: April 1 @ 6 p.m.
April 3 @ 1 p.m.
Site: First Bank & Trust Soccer Complex
Stream: GoYotes.com/watch
Live Stats: Click Here
Game Notes: USD |
NDSU |
Summit League
A LOOK ACROSS THE PITCH
The Bison sit a 6-6 on the season and in fourth place in the standings. The Bison started the season losing to Kansas City but then reeled off a five game win streak with wins over KC, Western Illinois and Omaha. However, since the Omaha win on Feb. 28, the Bison have only won one of their last six games and enter the weekend with a three game losing streak.
NDSU is led by Olivia Lovick with four goals on the season, while Marian Taiwo has three goals. Three Bison have two goals while two have one goal on the season. In between the pipes, Bison have had Aly Cole and Abby Wilkinson split minutes. Cole has 21 saves while Wilinson has 16 on the season.
DYNAMIC SCORERS
The Yotes have put five goals in the net once and four goals twice this season. Omaha is the only other school in the conference to have recorded a game of five goals or more. Gailus leads the team with four goals on the season while Mitchell and Ravelo have recorded three goals apeice.
11 different players have scored goals this season for the Coyotes, only one other Summit League team (Kansas City-11) can say that as well.
HOME STRETCH
The Coyotes have two more weekends of competition, at home this weekend and then at UND next weekend. If the Yotes win out, they can secure a spot in the top four for the conference tournament, however, things get a little tricky if they lose once or twice in the next four games. Points per match will be the first metric used to determine field and seeds since all teams did not play the same amount of matches due to cancellation
CONFERENCE & NATIONAL RANKINGS
The Coyotes rank 38th in the nation with 18 assists, while ranking 46th with 20 goals. With 47 total points, South Dakota ranks 47th in the country.
Taylor Ravelo leads the Summit League and ranks 13th in the nation with three game-winning goals.
Taylor Cotter ranks 60th in the nation with four assists, while
Jordan Centineo and
Abby Ostrem rank 122nd with three assists apiece.
USD ranks third in goals with 1.6 and second in assists with 1.5 per game in the Summit League.
Taylor Cotter is eighth with 1.75 shots and tied for third with four assists per game in the conference.
Shaylee Gailus is tied for fifth with four goals in the League.
LAST TIME OUT
The Yotes extended their home winning streak to four games with a sweep of ORU this past weekend. In game one, the Yotes took the 2-1 victory and the 4-1 victory in game two. Freshman
Ashby Johnston recorded her first career goal over the weekend.
Taylor Cotter assisted or scored on three of the four goals this past Sunday.
