Match Information
Opponent	Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Date	Thursday, September 2, 2021
Time	7:00 p.m.
Location	Winston-Salem, N.C. | Spry Stadium
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Game Notes	Loyola

The Matchup

• Loyola women's soccer faces its second ACC opponent of the season on Thursday, as the Greyhounds take on undefeated Wake Forest at 7 p.m. in the first meeting between the two sides since 2011.
• This is the fifth of eight games against non-conference opponents prior to Loyola's Patriot League opener against Colgate on Saturday, Sept. 18.

Last Time Out

• Four different Loyola players scored in the second half, as the Greyhounds ran away from Iona for a 5-1 home victory on Sunday night.
• Freshmen Olivia Quaranta and Baylee DeSmit each registered their first collegiate goals, while Sarah Bayer and Ada Clare Tempert added solo strikes for the Greyhounds (2-2-0), who scored their most goals in a game since 2018. 
• Bayer's goal was the 10th of her Loyola career. She is the program's active scoring leader with 24 points (10 G, 4 A) in 46 appearances.
• The Gaels (2-2-0) scored off a free kick in the 87th minute to avoid a shutout.
• Shea Carroll and Lois Edwards each picked up their first collegiate assists on Tempert's goal, while Nicole Rivas and Sarah Mirr also added helpers.
• Loyola led 1-0 at halftime following an Iona own goal in the 29th minute. 
• The Greyhounds led 11-7 in shots and 5-3 in corner kicks while improving to 21-2-2 lifetime against Iona.

Series History

• Wake Forest leads 3-1-0 in a series which dates back to 1997.
• The lone Greyhounds victory was a 2-1 win over the 24th-ranked Demon Deacons on Sept. 7, 2007 in a neutral site game played at Virginia Tech.
• That is Loyola's only win all-time against a current ACC school. The Greyhounds also topped former ACC member Maryland by a 1-0 final in 2006.
• Wake Forest earned a 3-0 neutral site win at Virginia Tech during the last meeting on Sept. 9, 2011.
• The Greyhounds were edged 2-1 in their lone previous trip to Winston-Salem on Aug. 30, 2009.

• With the win, head coach Joe Mallia is now 99-56-15 across 10 seasons at Loyola (1998-2004, 2019-pres.) and 149-90-26 in 15 seasons overall, leaving him two victories away from reaching a pair of milestone figures.
• Loyola's four second-half goals came within a span of 24 minutes. Olivia Quaranta began the run after heading in a Nicole Rivas corner in the 52nd minute.
• Loyola's last five-goal performance came in a 5-1 home win over Delaware State on Oct. 1, 2018. 
• The Greyhounds scored multiple goals for a second time in their last 15 contests dating back to October, 2019. Their other multi-goal effort during that span was a 2-1 win over Colgate to open up the 2021 spring season.

Sim, Tempert Land on Preseason All-Patriot League Team

• Loyola was one of three Patriot League schools to have multiple selections to the conference's 11-member Preseason All-League team announcedin August, with juniors Paige Sim and Ada Clare Tempert both earning recognition.
• Sim played every minute in goal during the spring 2021 season while earning third team all-conference accolades, finishing with a 3-2-1 record, a 0.48 GAA, a .824 save percentage and three shutouts.
• Also a second team All-Patriot League honoree as a freshman in 2019, Sim has a career record of 11-6-6 with a 0.68 GAA and .841 save percentage. She has recorded shutouts in nine of her 22 career starts in goal.
• Tempert scored two of Loyola's four goals last spring and was tied for the team lead in shots (10), making an immediate impact after missing the 2019 season due to injury.

Loyola Ranked No. 5 in Patriot League Preseason Poll

• The Greyhounds, who are one of two teams to advance to the Patriot League semifinals in each of the last two seasons, were projected to finish fifth in the conference's preseason poll released on August 10.
• Loyola has earned a result in 10 of 13 regular season games against Patriot League opponents over the last two years, going 5-3-5 during that stretch.
• Nine of 11 starters from the spring are back for the Greyhounds this season, including six former All-Patriot League players in Paige Sim, Ada Clare Tempert, Sarah Bayer (2018 - 2nd Team, 2019 - 1st Team, Spring 2021 - 3rd Team), Kaleigh Gallagher (2019 - 3rd Team), Julia Gray (2019 - 2nd Team) and Nicole Rivas (Spring 2021 - 3rd Team).

Last Season

• A season unlike any other culminated in a return trip to the Patriot League Final Four for Loyola, as the Greyhounds went 3-1-1 in regular season play to clinch the No. 2 seed in the conference's South division standings.
• Loyola's season ultimately ended with a tight 1-0 defeat to eventual conference champions Navy in the semifinals.
• The Greyhounds outscored their opponents by an overall margin of 4-3 during the shortened spring campaign.
• Claire Beath, a first team All-Patriot League selection in her final collegiate season on the backline, was the lone field player to play in all 564 minutes.
• Loyola's team GAA of 0.479 ranked third in the Patriot League and 11th overall among Division I schools.