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San Diego State (1-3-0) at Miami (2-1-0)
Friday, Sept. 7 | 7:00 p.m. (ET) | Cobb Stadium| Coral Gables, Fla.
Aztecs Notes
• For the first time this season, San Diego State head out on the road. The Aztecs travel across the country to play at the University of Miami, in Coral Gables. This trip will be the furthest the squad will have traveled for a match, 2,268 air miles, since it played at Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y., on Sept. 11, 2016, which is 2,301 air miles.
• The Aztecs match-up against Miami will be the first time the schools have met in women's soccer.
• With six shots on goal to lead the team, Malia Kaleiohi (Jr., MF/F, San Diego, Calif.) has already surpassed her single-season high of four, which she set last year. She produced two shots on goal in each of the team's first three games, which are single-game highs for her career. In addition, Kaleiohi has taken a team-high nine shots which are two shy of her single-season high of 11 which she established last season.
• Brooke Lisowski (Sr., GK, Los Gatos, Calif.), a transfer from California, has played every minute in goal for SDSU and has a 1-3-0 record. In 360 minutes, she has surrendered nine goals (2.25 GAA) and has made 12 saves (.571 save percentage). If you remove the four goals given up in the first half of the season- opener against No. 22 Texas Tech, Lisowski's GAA goes down to 1.42 (five goals allowed in 315 minutes) and her save percentage goes up to .706 (12 saves on 17 shots which reached her line).
• On a goal against No. 22 Texas Tech in the season opener and an assist on the Frisch game-winner against LIU, freshman Kiera Utush (Fr., MF, Rocklin, Calif.) leads the team with three points. Utush is just the second freshman in the last 10 years to score the team's season-opening goal. The other freshman to tally a goal in her first collegiate game in that time frame is Taylor Moorehead (So., F, Valencia,Calif.) who had the game-winner in a 1-0 victory over New Mexico State last season. Digging deeper, Utush's came in the 51st minute and Moorehead's was in the 85th minute.
• The meeting with Miami will be the third Power-5 team the Aztecs will have played this season. Over the last 10 years, SDSU has played a minimum of three Power-5 squads per season. In 2011, San Diego State took the pitch a single-season high six times against current Power-5 schools and posted a 4-2 record. Among those four wins, SDSU notched victories over Arizona (1-0), Minnesota (2-1) Texas (1-0).
• Outside of the first half of the season-opener, in which No. 22 Texas Tech tallied four goals, the Aztecs defense has been up to the challenge giving up slightly more than one goal per game (1.42). However, the offense is what has been missing. Due to several factors, SDSU has found the back of the net just twice this year and is currently in the midst of a scoreless drought of 181:38 dating to the game winner against LIU at the 88:22 mark.
• Head Coach Mike Friesen is in his 13th campaign leading the Mountain West's most dominant women's soccer program. Friesen has guided his squads to nine Mountain West championships (five tournament and four regular season), and five NCAA Tournament appearances. In 12 seasons of conference play, Friesen has a 72-19-15 record. His 72 victories are double that of the next closest conference coach...Wyoming's Peter Cuadrado and Boise State's Jim Thomas have won 36 games each in Mountain West play.
• Friesen's 141 victories (141-85-32) since the start of the 2007 season, the year he took control of the program, are the most by any coach in the Mountain West. Colorado College's Geoff Bennett ranks second on the list with 129 victories through last weekend.
• San Diego State is picked to finish fourth in the MW coaches' preseason poll. This marks the first time in 10 seasons the Aztecs have been picked to finish lower than second place. The last time SDSU was lower than second place in the preseason poll was at the beginning of the 2009 season, a year in which the team went 15-4-5, was undefeated in the Mountain West (5-0-2) and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
• Having won four of the last seven regular season titles, SDSU finds itself in the No. 4 spot in the Mountain West preseason coaches' poll, which snaps a six-year run of being the favorite in the eyes of the conference's head coaches.
• The Aztecs have won eight of the last 13 MW trophies (regular season and tournament), all of which have come under the direction of head coach Mike Friesen. In total, the 13th-year head coach has guided San Diego State to nine conference crowns.
• San Diego State brings back its top seven point-earners from last year, including 2018 Mountain West Newcomer of the Year Laura Fuentes (So., MF, Newark, Calif.). The midfielder tallied three goals and an assist as a true freshman. Fuentes finished with seven points on the year, one behind another freshman, team leader Chloe Frisch (Jr., MF/F, Solana Beach, Calif.) who totaled eight (two goals & four assists).
• Joining Frisch and Fuentes as the top returning point-getters are Taylor Moorehead (So., F, Valencia, Calif.), Phoebe Leitch (Jr., D/MF, Forest Row, England) and Darcy Weiser (Sr., F, Huntington Beach, Calif.) who each tallied three goals and six points in 2018. Sarah Broacha (Jr., D, Pleasanton, Calif.) and Mia Root (Jr., F, Placerville, Calif.) totaled a goal and two assists each for four points.
Opponent Notebook
Miami
The Hurricanes went 6-9-3 in 2018 and have opened the 2019 season 2-1-0 after a 1-2 loss to Florida Atlantic last Thursday night in the team's regular-season home opener... Miami's game against Jacksonville, scheduled for Sunday was canceled due to Hurricane Dorian... The Hurricanes were picked to finish in 12th place among 14 teams in the preseason ACC coach's poll... Miami must replace 85 percent if its goal scoring from a year ago (16-of-19 goals), including their top-three goal scorers... The defense is anchored by a pair of keepers Tayler Speaks who had played in three games with 10 saves and two goals allowed.... The Hurricanes are coached by Sarah Barnes, who is in her eighth season as a head coach and brings a Division I career-record of 68-50-27 into the 2019 season. In two years at Miami Barnes is 8-9-3.
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