MILLERSVILLE, Pa. – The No. 3-ranked Millersville field hockey team will host Bloomsburg on Tuesday, Oct. 22 at 6 p.m., for the teams' first meeting of the season in a PSAC showdown.
 
Millersville is fresh off a 6-0 win at home against Slippery Rock. The Marauders are 11-3 overall and 3-3 in the PSAC. The Huskies last took the field Saturday on the road at Seton Hill defeating the Griffins 2-0. Bloomsburg is 4-10 and 1-5 in the PSAC.
 
ABOUT THE MARAUDERS
• The Millersville roster hosts 17 goal scorers with as many as six Marauders scoring in a single game this season.
• Millersville has recorded 44 goals, 273 shots with 168 on goal and 170 penalty corners. The team has held its opponents to just eight goals, 99 shots with 47 on goal and 81 corners.
• The Marauders' goalkeeping unit has tallied 40 saves in 14 games.
• Senior Erica Tarsi leads the team in goals scored (10) and assists (5). Tarsi has recorded three multi-goal games this season. She sits at third on the all-time career scoring leaders chart with 100 points, just two points shy of claiming second. Tarsi is also third in all-time career goals scored with 40. She is just one goal shy of tying for second.
• Hannah Brown (5), Emma Boutcher (5), Asia Weaver (5), Kyra Brakefield (4), Kate Strickland (2), Annabelle Tierney (2) and Georgia Werkiser (2) have all recorded multiple goals for the Marauders this season.
• Brakefield is second on the team in assists with four.
• Jordan Goddard has recorded the most playing time this season defending the circle for 803 minutes in 14 games.
• Madeline Stehly has made two defensive saves this season and Meredith Fagan has recorded one.
• Autumn Peters has started in all 14 games this season and has recorded a total of 774 minutes in the cage. She has made 32 of Millersville's 40 saves this season.
 
SERIES HISTORY
• Series vs. Bloomsburg: 18-43-4
• Series Streak: Millersville, 1
• First Meeting: 1975, 3-0
• Last Meeting: 2018, 1-0
• Shelly Behrens vs. Bloomsburg:  11-10
 
THE LAST MEETING: Millersville 1, Bloomsburg 0 (Oct. 31, 2018)
• Aliza Mizak scored the lone goal of the game in the 28th minute to give then-No. 9 Millersville the 1-0 advantage.
• Mizak's goal came off a penalty corner inserted by Kyra Brakfield to Erica Tarsi at the top of the circle. Tarsi fired a shot near the cage and Mizak tipped it in for the goal.
• The game marked Millersville's fourth-straight win and awarded them a spot in the PSAC Tournament.
 
SCOUTING THE HUSKIES
• Bloomsburg has recorded 19 goals, 150 shots with 85 on goal and 88 penalty corner in 14 games. Their opponents have recorded 30 goals, 185 shots with 130 on goal and 96 corners.
• The Huskie goalkeeping unit has made 100 saves this season.
• Foto Tsioles leads the team in goals scored with seven.
• Cheyenne Ott and Willow Perkins have a team-high two assists each.
 
COACH SHELLY BEHRENS QUOTES
• "Bloomsburg is Bloomsburg. They are who they are in name, as well as who they are in Division II field hockey on the field. We always get a great game with them and I don't expect anything less on Tuesday. They always make us better and I hope we make them better. In the PSAC, the battles are two or three times a week. That's what you sign up for. That's why you come here; to play against the best and to see how good you can be. We just want to go out and have a chance to compete again and get better."
• "My team, they are exceptional young women. I get to see them behind the scenes every day and people don't get to see that. The heart and the passion they compete with day in and day out and then what they bring on gameday is second to none. They make coaching fun. I'm excited to see how they are going to respond next and what they are going to do next. I love how they stay together and how they've supported each other. Resiliency is the right word. What they have overcome to put themselves where they are and what they continue to do is great."