Tigers Celebrate Four Seniors Saturday vs. No. 11 Duke

CLEMSON, S.C. – The Clemson women’s soccer team is set to host No. 11 Duke on Saturday, Oct. 13 for our seniors’ last regular season home match at Historic Riggs Field. The match is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. and our four seniors will be recognized prior to the start of the match.

Match Information:
Who: Clemson Tigers vs. No. 11 Duke Blue Devils
When: Saturday, Oct. 13 at 5 p.m.
Where: Historic Riggs Field, Clemson, S.C.
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Live Stats: https://clemsontigers.com/clemson-womens-soccer-live-stats/
Watch Live: http://www.espn.com/watch/_/id/3436423/duke-vs-clemson-w-soccer

Clemson Notes:

• Clemson is coming off a solid week, picking up a 1-0 upset victory over No. 10 Florida State on Thursday, Oct. 4 and followed it up with a 2-0 shutout road victory over Pitt on Sunday, Oct. 7.
• The road victory over No. 10 Florida State was Clemson’s first upset over a top-10 team on the road in nearly two years, as the Tigers defeated No. 6 Duke on Oct. 27, 2016 on the road in Durham, N.C.
• The win over the Seminoles was Clemson’s first since Nov. 18, 2001, when it won 1-0 in an NCAA Tournament Second Round match at Historic Riggs Field. It was also the Tigers’ first win in Tallahassee since a 3-2 victory on Sept. 10, 2000, and only the third win in Tallahassee in program history.
• Miranda Weslake netted the lone goal against the Noles in the 21st minute off a free kick that junior defender Dani Antieau sent into the box.
• Junior goalkeeper Sandy MacIver earned ACC Co-Defensive Player of the Week as she earned a pair of shutout road wins at No. 10 FSU (1-0) and at Pitt (2-0). She registered a season-high six saves in the Tigers upset of the Seminoles, while keeping Florida State, which entered the match averaging 2.25 goals per game, scoreless for just the third time this season. MacIver is 7-3-0 on the season with six shutouts. She has 25 saves in 919 minutes in net for Clemson, a goals against average of .59 and a save percentage of .806.
• The Winsford, England native missed the first four matches of the season as she was in France, where she represented England’s women’s national team and earned a bronze medal at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.
• Antieau picked up another four points later in the week as she netted her first and second goals of the season in the 2-0 win at Pitt. Senior defender Sam Staab assisted on both goals with a long throw in and a corner kick.
• With Staab assisting on both of Antieau’s goals, she picked up her sixth and seventh assists of the season. She now has a total of 29 assists for her Clemson career, surpassing All-American Deliah Arrington (27 assists) for the fifth place slot in the school record book in that category.
• Weslake is now tied with Mariana Speckmaier for the team lead in goals, as she picked up her sixth of the season. The two also lead the team in scoring with 13 points apiece, each with six goals and one assist.
• Starting defender Staab was the only collegiate player called up to the U.S. U23 Women’s National Team for the 2018 Nordic Tournament that took place from Aug. 29-Sept. 3. The San Diego, Calif. native scored the team’s game-winning goal in the 1-0 win over Norway to secure the USA’s first-place finish.
• Saturday’s match against No. 11 Duke will mark the sixth ranked opponent this season that Clemson has faced and the fifth in its last six matches against a ranked opponent inside the top-11.

Duke Notes:

• The No. 11 Blue Devils enter the match at 10-2-2 as they are coming off a 2-0 week in the ACC defeating Wake Forest 3-2 on Oct. 4 and Virginia Tech 2-0 on Sunday.
• Leading the offense for Duke is senior forward Kayla McCoy, with eight goals and five assists, for 21 points. During conference matches, she leads the ACC in shots (22), shots per game (3.67), points (2.17), points per game (2.17), goals (6) and goals per game (1.00).
• McCoy is just one of six who have netted two or more goals this season for the Blue Devils.
• Redshirt sophomore Brooke Heinsohn is 10-2-2 with seven shutouts in her 14 starts in net for Duke, allowing nine goal while picking up 40 saves in her 1,290 minutes. She has a save percentage of .816 and a goals against average of .63.

Series Notes:

• Clemson has a 13-11-1 record all-time against Duke, with the Tigers holding a 7-4-1 record at home against the Blue Devils.
• The last regular season meeting was at Koskinen Stadium on Oct. 27, 2016. The then 14th-ranked Tigers upset the then sixth-ranked Blue Devils, 1-0, to claim the second ACC regular season title in program history. Staab netted the lone goal in the fifth minute, and the defense held strong the rest of the match.
• The last time the two teams met at Historic Riggs Field, the match ended in a 1-0 Tiger victory on Oct. 9, 2014.

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