Game Information
Opponent	California Baptist Lancers
Date	Friday, August 17, 2018
Time	3:00 p.m. (PDT) | 6:00 p.m. (EDT)
Location	Riverside, Calif. | Lancer Soccer Field
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Game Notes	Loyola
Opponent	UC Riverside Highlanders
Date	Sunday, August 19, 2018
Time	11:00 a.m. (PDT) | 2:00 p.m. (EDT)
Location	Riverside, Calif. | UCR Soccer Stadium
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Quick Hits About The 'Hounds

• Loyola University Maryland women's soccer opens its 27th season of action on Friday, August 17, when it travels to the opposite coast to face California Baptist University.
• The Greyhounds remain in the Golden State for a game against the University of California, Riverside on Sunday, August 12.
• Loyola is 14-10-2 all-time in season openers.
• Loyola starts the season with three-straight road games, including the swing through Riverside County and a trip to Northern New Jersey to take on Seton Hall University. The Greyhounds then return to Ridley Athletic Complex for four home matches in a row.
• Naomi Meiburger begins her fifth season as the head coach at Loyola. She is joined on the sidelines by third-year assistants Kevin Dempsey and Morgan Ruhl and volunteer assistant coach Lacey Phillips.
• The Greyhounds' 2018 women's soccer roster includes 19 returners with previous experience at Loyola, a transfer and eight freshmen.

Looking Back

• Loyola finished the 2017 season with a 3-13-1 mark and a 0-8-1 record in Patriot League.
• Julianna Cabrera led the Greyhounds with eight points, scoring twice and assisting on four goals.
• Sumer Rahe played all but 40 minutes in goal during the 2017 season, playing to a 1.89 goals-against average while saving 69.5 percent of shots on goal she faced during the year.
• The Greyhounds had a season-best streak of 310-plus minutes without allowing a goal snapped in the first half against Boston University on October 14. The stretch covered four total games. 
• Nine players return in 2018 who saw 950 or more minutes last season.

Series History

• The matches against California Baptist and UC Riverside will be the first-ever for Loyola against the programs.
• This weekend's games will be Loyola's fourth and fifth all-time in the State of California. Loyola played UCLA and San Francisco at the 1998 USF Diadora Classic. It made a swing through Southern California in September of 2002, playing at Cal State Fullerton and Loyola Marymount.

Golden State Homecomings

• Four Loyola players will be making homecomings to their native states when they play in Riverside this weekend.
• Sumer Rahe graduated from El Modena HIgh School, a 35-plus mile trek on the Riverside Freeway in Orange, while fellow senior Jourdan Ziff is from down Interstate 215 where she played at Temecula Valley High School in Temecula.
• The Greyhounds also feature two players from Northern California, sophomore Nicole Rivas (Danville) and Sarah Mirr (Pleasanton).

About The Lancers & Highlanders

• California Baptist will make its NCAA Division I debut on Friday, playing its first game in the classification in any sport. The Lancers were 11-5-3 in 2017, their final as a member of NCAA Division II's PacWest Conference. They went 9-1-3 and won the conference title, earing a bid to the NCAA Championships where they fell, 1-0, to Sonoma State.
• UC Riverside finished the 2017 season with an 8-11-2 record, going 5-3-0 in the Big West Conference. The Highlanders qualified for the Big West Championships before being knocked off by Cal Sate Northridge, 3-0, in the semifinals.

Having A Foot In (Almost) Everything

• Julianna Cabrera was involved in all but two of Loyola's goals last season, assisting on four via the assist end and scoring at both St. John's and Delaware State.
• Cabrera, who was the Greyhounds' primary player on set pieces, entered the season with just one assist – coming in her freshman season of 2015 – but she quadrupled that with four in 2017. Her four assists in 2017 tied her for seventh in the Patriot League, and he 0.24 assists per game were also tied for seventh.

Keeping Them Off The Board

• Loyola's defense strung together two-straight shutouts and more than 310 minutes of scoreless soccer in all over the course of four matches, its longest stretch of the 2017 season. The Greyhounds yielded a goal to the U.S. Military Academy five minutes, 41 seconds into their game on October 1, and they were not scored on again until Boston University did so in the first half on October 14.

Nine Newcomers On The Pitch

• Nine player will suit up for the first time in regular-season action for the Greyhounds this weekend. Eight freshmen and a transfer joined the Loyola roster for the 2018 season.
• Former Northern High School (Owings, Maryland) standout Julia Gray came to Loyola and participated with the Greyhounds during the spring season after spending the 2017 season at the Big East Conference's Providence College.
• The eight freshmen hail from six different states (California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia) and two countries (Germany and United States). Ann-Kathrin Wolfram will be the first player to play to the Greyhounds from Germany.

• "I am excited about the quality of returning players we have, particularly in our senior class. We also are bringing in some very talented freshman this year. In my experience some of the best seasons are when you have experienced players mixed with talented youth. After the disappointment of last seasons results, I know this group is anxious to get started playing games and show what they can do." – Head Coach Naomi Meiburger