Recent news suggests that Fresno State and Oregon State could reside in the same conference come 2026, but this week, Shivani Battaglia and Katie Godden are set to face off in a non-conference game as both teams edge closer to league play. Battaglia’s transfer from Central Michigan has been a simply inspired move, with the Western Australian playing all 540 minutes between the sticks for Fresno State this season, keeping a pair of clean sheets and holding a save percentage of .826. Meanwhile, Godden has started on only two of five occasions this season, but has played healthy minutes in the majority of games and looked dangerous at times. If nothing else, we should hopefully see the two Australians in direct competition as Godden looks to breach Battaglia’s defences.
This week also sees a battle of stars from the national capital as High Point take on UMBC. Midfielder Meg Roden provided one of the highlights last week with a game-winning Olimpico for High Point, but fellow Canberra product, Annie Grove, will do everything in her power to shut down the Panthers’ attack. The Retrievers have already kept two clean sheets in five games this season, and their two wins are already double what they posted in 2023. Meanwhile, Roden and High Point will be looking to maintain their good form, having picked up two wins and a drawn in their last three games after starting the season with three losses.
Meanwhile, in Louisiana, Caitlin Le Roux and Northwestern State will be looking to shut down Adelaide Wyrzynski after the freshman scored her first collegiate goal for Tarleton State last week. The Demons had a tough start to the season, falling to three power conference teams as they frontloaded their non-conference schedule. However, after two confidence-boosting wins last week, things are looking up in Natchitoches. Le Roux has featured in all five games so far, coming off the bench to play varying amounts of minutes on each occasion. On the other side, Tarleton State are sitting at a healthy 4-2-3 to this point, with Wyrzynski looking increasingly dangerous in recent times. Having posted three shots in two of her last three games, the freshman has been a real impact player off the bench, banging home her first goal in last week’s 2-0 win over Grambling State.
The Demons will then host Jacquelline Kambere and Mississippi Valley State, whose first match of the weekend has unfortunately already been postponed due to the incoming Hurricane Francine. The Devilettes have played just three games to this point, but Kambere has started all three, played at least 68 minutes on every occasion, and tallied an assist in a 3-2 win over Hampton.
On the West Coast, Holly Furphy and Santa Clara welcome local rivals Stanford to Stevens Stadium in a battle of Bay Area powers separated by a distance that could be covered by a reasonably-priced Uber ride (which this writer may or may not have done). Stanford are sitting pretty atop the United Soccer Coaches rankings, taking all eight first-place votes in the most recent poll to go with their 6-0 record. However, Santa Clara sit 12th in the nation and also hold a healthy 6-1 record after their whirlwind 4-3 win over Cal Poly last week. Furphy came off the bench to rattle off two shots in her 37 minutes on the pitch, but the Victorian has started four of seven games this season, so it will be interesting to see what role she plays as West Coast Conference play moves ever closer.
Erin Gordon and Harvard will actually face Santa Clara next week, but before then, the Crimson travel to the shores of Lake Michigan (another place this writer may or may not have been) to face Milwaukee and Northwestern. Milwaukee have put themselves through the wringer with their non-conference schedule, facing three Big Ten teams as they look to battle-test themselves before their quest to retain their Horizon League crown. Don’t let the 1-5 record fool you; this Panthers team was picked to win their conference for a reason. Meanwhile, Northwestern may have been picked to finish 12th in the 18-team Big Ten, but a 5-2 record is nothing to be sneezed at. Moreover, one of those losses came in a 2-0 defeat to now-#2 ranked Virginia, a game in which the Wildcats held the Cavaliers to a single shot on target for the entire contest. Harvard are certainly more than capable of winning each of these games, but both will also be a solid test for the former Macarthur Rams defender and the Crimson.
Congratulations must also go to Gordon, whose Macarthur Rams side came up trumps in the NPL New South Wales grand final last weekend, defeating APIA Leichhardt 4-2 on penalties after the sides finished 2-2 after 90 minutes and could not be split during extra time. Former University of the Incarnate Word defender Madison McComasky captained the Rams to victory, whilst former Rhode Island goalkeeper Teresa Morrissey was the hero between the sticks in the shootout for the Rams.
Full Schedule
NCAA Division I
Alabama State (Grace Norbury, Madison Chambers)
This week: v North Ala. – 9:00am, Saturday 14 September; v Faulkner – 9:00am, Monday 16 September
Bellarmine (Teagan Douglas)
This week: @ Northern Ky. – 9:00am, Friday 13 September; @ Southern Ind. – 3:00am, Monday 16 September
Charleston Southern (Eve Tiktikakis)
This week: @ The Citadel – 5:00am, Sunday 15 September
Coastal Carolina (Tahlia Voskanian)
This week: v UNC Greensboro – 9:00am, Friday 13 September; v Davidson – 4:00am, Monday 16 September
Dartmouth (Kate Ryan)
This week: @ Colgate – 9:00am, Friday 13 September; v Hofstra – 5:00am, Monday 16 September
Denver (Isabella Chidiac)
This week: @ Colorado St. – 11:00am, Friday 13 September
Detroit Mercy (Chantelle Symes)
This week: No games.
Fresno State (Shivani Battaglia)
This week: @ Oregon St. – 12:00pm, Friday 13 September
Harvard (Erin Gordon)
This week: @ Milwaukee – 10:00am, Friday 13 September; @ Northwestern – 4:00am, Monday 16 September
High Point (Meg Roden)
This week: v UMBC – 9:00am, Friday 13 September; @ Elon – 9:00am, Monday 16 September
Incarnate Word (Montanna Mathews)
This week: v UTEP – 10:00am, Friday 13 September
Little Rock (Candice Kilderry)
This week: v Ark.-Pine Bluff – 9:00am, Friday 13 September; v Oral Roberts – 4:00am, Monday 16 September
Long Island (Izzy Stein)
This week: No games.
Loyola Maryland (Ava Blizzard)
This week: v Wagner – 9:00am, Friday 13 September; v Monmouth – 5:00am, Monday 16 September
Maine (Grace Wilson, Lara Kirkby)
This week: @ Holy Cross – 2:00am, Monday 16 September
Massachusetts (Hannah Peric)
This week: v UMass Lowell – 4:00am, Monday 16 September
Mississippi Valley State (Jacquelline Kambere)
This week: v Jacksonville St. – 8:00am, Friday 13 September; @ Northwestern St. – 4:00am, Monday 16 September
Morehead State (Lilly Bailey, Natasha Tanner)
This week: @ Mercyhurst – 3:00am, Monday 16 September
Northwestern State (Caitlin Le Roux)
This week: v Tarleton St. – 10:00am, Friday 13 September; v Mississippi Val. – 4:00am, Monday 16 September
Old Dominion (Alice Thompson)
This week: @ Auburn – 9:30am, Saturday 14 September
Oregon State (Katie Godden)
This week: v Fresno St. – 12:00pm, Friday 13 September; v South Dakota St. – 4:00am, Monday 16 September
Pacific (Libby Davy)
This week: v UC Irvine – 12:00pm, Friday 13 September; @ UC Santa Barbara – 6:00am, Monday 16 September
Purdue (Zoe Karipidis)
This week: @ Northwestern – 9:00am, Friday 13 September
Rider (Eloise Jones)
This week: v Niagara – 3:00am, Sunday 15 September
Saint Francis (Claire Scarpin, Aimee Benton)
This week: v Duquesne – 6:00am, Friday 13 September; @ Akron – 4:00am, Monday 16 September
Saint Peter’s (Sophie Cook, Wilma Thodhlana)
This week: @ Merrimack – 3:00am, Sunday 15 September
Santa Clara (Holly Furphy)
This week: v Stanford – 6:00am, Monday 16 September
Seton Hall (Grace Mitchell, Sarah Mitchell)
This week: @ Lafayette – 9:00am, Friday 13 September; v Yale – 3:00am, Monday 16 September
Siena (Iona Snape)
This week: v Mount St. Mary’s – 3:00am, Sunday 15 September
Southern (Yazmin Baird-Watson)
This week: @ Sam Houston – 10:30am, Saturday 14 September
Stetson (Camila Madriz Figueroa)
This week: @ South Fla. – 8:00am, Monday 16 September
Tarleton State (Adelaide Wyrzynski)
This week: @ Northwestern St. – 10:00am, Friday 13 September; @ Houston Christian – 4:00am, Monday 16 September
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (Molly Arens, Emma Bates)
This week: @ Texas Southern – 9:00am, Friday 13 September
Towson (Courtney Butlion)
This week: v Saint Joseph’s – 8:00am, Friday 13 September
UAB (Abbey Burns)
This week: @ UTSA – 10:00am, Friday 13 September
UMBC (Annie Grove)
This week: @ High Point – 9:00am, Friday 13 September; @ Longwood – 6:00am, Monday 16 September
UNC Asheville (Mercedes McNabb, Jasmine Barry)
This week: v Wofford – 8:00am, Friday 13 September; v Queens (NC) – TBA, Monday 16 September
VCU (Greta Kraszula)
This week: v UNCW – 8:00am, Friday 13 September
NCAA Division II
American International (Eloise Paine)
This week: v Holy Family – 3:00am, Sunday 15 September
Barton (Brigitte Sander)
This week: @ Virginia St. – 3:00am, Sunday 15 September
Cal Poly Pomona (Georgia Rink)
This week: v Point Loma – 9:30am, Friday 13 September; @ Westmont – 5:30am, Sunday 15 September
Cal State Dominguez Hills (Katie McDermott)
This week: @ CUI – 11:30am, Saturday 14 September
Caldwell (Liz Warne)
This week: v Molloy – 2:00am, Sunday 15 September
Carson-Newman (Amber Wilkinson)
This week: @ Trevecca Nazarene – 6:00am, Sunday 15 September
Catawba (Ashley Hughes)
This week: v Montevallo – 7:00am, Sunday 15 September
Charleston (WV) (Ciara Casamento, Kate Duffy)
This week: @ Davis & Elkins – 6:30am, Monday 16 September
Concord (Caitlin Webster, Holly Gray)
This week: @ West Va. Wesleyan – 9:00am, Monday 16 September
Drury (Keva Culkin)
This week: v Maryville (MO) – 8:00am, Saturday 14 September; v Mo.-St. Louis – 3:00am, Monday 16 September
Fort Lewis (Renee Junna)
This week: @ Midwestern St. – 8:00am, Friday 13 September; @ Tex. Permian Basin – 2:00am, Sunday 15 September
Francis Marion (Ashley Jordan)
This week: v Southern Wesleyan – 6:30am, Sunday 15 September
Franklin Pierce (Erin Keyt)
This week: v Bridgeport – 8:00am, Sunday 15 September
Gannon (Paige Taylor)
This week: v Pitt.-Johnstown – 5:00am, Sunday 15 September
Glenville State (Summer McShane-Cale)
This week: v West Virginia St. – 8:00am, Monday 16 September
Lincoln Memorial (Jade Brown)
This week: v Lenoir-Rhyne – 3:00am, Sunday 15 September
Mississippi College (Erin Stamatopoulos)
This week: @ Blue Mountain (MS) – 5:30am, Sunday 15 September
Oklahoma Christian (Layla Lopez, Chloe Walker)
This week: @ Southwestern Okla. – 8:00am, Friday 13 September; @ Newman – 4:00am, Sunday 15 September
Seton Hill (Maddie Teakle)
This week: @ Slippery Rock – 2:00am, Sunday 15 September
Southern New Hampshire (Imogen Noon)
This week: v Wilmington (DE) – 9:00am, Saturday 14 September
Thomas Jefferson (Liv Riddel)
This week: v St. Thomas Aquinas – 4:30am, Sunday 15 September
UNC Pembroke (Sarah Bonifant)
This week: @ North Greenville – 3:00am, Sunday 15 September
USC Beaufort (Alice Webster)
This week: @ Lynn – 8:00am, Sunday 15 September
UT-Tyler (Mackenzee Stokes)
This week: v Jarvis Christian – 4:00am, Sunday 15 September
UTPB (Lara Brewis)
This week: v Fort Lewis – 2:00am, Sunday 15 September
Valdosta State (Sienna Havill)
This week: v Georgia College – 7:00am, Sunday 15 September
West Virginia State (Emma Farrelly)
This week: @ Glenville St. – 8:00am, Monday 16 September
Wingate (Sophie MacAlpine)
This week: No games.
NCAA Division III
Bethany College (Gabby Hicks)
This week: v Earlham – 4:30am, Sunday 15 September
Dean College (Miro McIntyre Clere)
This week: v New England Col. – 3:00am, Sunday 15 September
Lesley (Maya Spatafore)
This week: @ Bridgewater St. – 3:00am, Sunday 15 September
Millikin University (Lila Castillo Burgess)
This week: @ Westminster (MO) – 6:00am, Sunday 15 September
Monmouth College (Brontë De Zwart)
This week: @ Coe – 4:00am, Sunday 15 September
SUNY Oneonta (Lisa Schinckel)
This week: v Union (NY) – 3:00am, Sunday 15 September
Southern Maine (Kayla O’Connor)
This week: v Me.-Fort Kent – 8:30am, Sunday 15 September
NAIA
Briar Cliff (IA) (Tamzin Hilton)
This week: v Central Christian (KS) – 6:00am, Saturday 14 September
Corban (Ava Hayes)
This week: @ Whitworth – 8:00am, Sunday 15 September; @ Whitman – 4:00am, Monday 16 September
Cumberlands (Ky.) (Georgia Martell)
This week: No games.
Jamestown (N.D.) (Olivia Cullen, Gaby Sarkis)
This week: @ Williams Baptist (AR) – 4:00am, Sunday 15 September
Keiser (Fla.) (Zara Board, Georgia Little, Zoe Edwards)
This week: v New College of Florida – 2:00am, Sunday 15 September
Midway (Holly Johnstone)
This week: v UC Clermont – 5:30am, Monday 16 September
Reinhardt (Ga.) (Riley Welsh)
This week: @ Columbia (SC) – 5:00am, Sunday 15 September
Rio Grande (Saskia Vos)
This week: v Washington Adventist (MD) – 4:00am, Saturday 14 September
Rocky Mountain (MT) (Piper Adams-Jones, Georgia Dean, Tara Appleby, Ellen Gaudry)
This week: No games.
Science and Arts (Emali Goulas)
This week: v Bellevue (NE) – 8:00am, Sunday 15 September
St. Andrews (NC) (Charlotte Weinand)
This week: v Union (Ky.) – 2:00am, Sunday 15 September
St. Thomas (Fla.) (D’arne Boato)
This week: No games.
Webber International (FL) (Claudia Vincent)
This week: @ Florida Memorial (FL) – 9:00am, Sunday 15 September
Xavier (La.) (Amelia Suma)
This week: No games.
NJCAA Division I
Barton (Mary Kahraman)
This week: v Hutchinson – 4:00am, Sunday 15 September
Dodge City (Jada Lamond)
This week: @ Seward County – 5:00am, Sunday 15 September
Eastern Florida State (Aimee Longhurst)
This week: v Tyler – 11:00am, Friday 13 September; v LSU Eunice – 2:00am, Sunday 15 September
LSU Eunice (Gabby Stone)
This week: v Eastern Florida State – 2:00am, Sunday 15 September
Laramie County (Giselle Heck)
This week: v Gillette – 7:30am, Saturday 14 September; v Casper – 7:30am, Sunday 15 September
Monroe College (Emily Mackie)
This week: No games.
Murray State (Sofia Lopez, Kellie McMahon)
This week: v Eastern Oklahoma State – 5:00am, Monday 16 September
Seminole State (OK) (Sophia Doumos)
This week: @ Northeastern Oklahoma A&M – 6:00am, Monday 16 September
Seward County (Ryshelle Taylor)
This week: v Dodge City – 5:00am, Sunday 15 September
Tyler (Ella Palframan, Anna Powell, Sienna Powell, Layne Chapman)
This week: v Eastern Florida State – 11:00am, Friday 13 September; v Daytona State – 1:00am, Sunday 15 September
Western Wyoming (Isabelle Kenna)
This week: @ Central Wyoming – 5:00am, Saturday 14 September; @ Northwest – 5:00am, Sunday 15 September
NJCAA Division II
Heartland (Morgan Stanton)
This week: v Hawkeye – 5:00am, Sunday 15 September
Johnson County (Sophia Abbott, Montana-Rose Currey)
This week: v Allen County – 8:00am, Sunday 15 September
Mineral Area (Thea Draganova)
This week: @ St. Charles – 7:00am, Sunday 15 September
Northeast (Samantha Bayer, Amelia Bingley, Hannah Chetcuti, Talia Sanders)
This week: @ Morton – 7:00am, Saturday 14 September; @ Oakton – 4:30am, Sunday 15 September
3C2A
Feather River (Lillian Pettersen)
This week: @ Solano – 9:00am, Saturday 14 September
USports Canada
UNBC (Scarlet Thomas)
This week: @ Thompson Rivers – 10am, Saturday 14 September; v UBC Okanagan – 5am, Monday 16 September
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