Match Information
Opponent	Delaware Blue Hens
Date	Sunday, September 12, 2021
Time	2:00 p.m.
Location	Baltimore, Md. | Ridley Athletic Complex
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Game Notes	Loyola

The Matchup

• Loyola women's soccer returns to Ridley Athletic Complex for its final non-conference game of the regular season on Sunday, as the Greyhounds take on Delaware for the first time since 2016.

Last Time Out

• Ada Clare Tempert and Baylee DeSmit scored 2:32 apart from each other early in the first half, and Paige Sim made six saves in goal to lead Loyola to a 2-0 victory at Howard on Thursday.
• The win was the 100th at Loyola for head coach Joe Mallia, as the program's all-time winningest coach also recorded his 150th career victory overall. Mallia, who first led the program from 1998-2004 before returning to Baltimore in 2019, is now 100-57-16 overall during his time with the Greyhounds.
• MK Barnes and Sarah Bayer assisted on Tempert's opener 10:51 into the contest, while DeSmit's 14th minute goal was a penalty kick blast into the top left corner.
• The assist for Barnes was her first collegiate point, and she added a defensive team save with 4:19 remaining.

Series History

• Delaware leads 6-4-0 in a series which dates back to Loyola's first season as a varsity program in 1992.
• All 10 previous meetings between the two sides have been decided by one goal, with three ending in overtime.
• Delaware has won each of the last three matchups, including a 1-0 home win during the most-recent contest on Sept. 4, 2016.
• The last Loyola victory came in 2012, when the Greyhounds earned a 1-0 win during a season in which the program went 12-6-4 and advanced to the NCAA tournament after winning its final MAAC Championship.

• Loyola scored multiple goals in a game for a third time in 13 games dating back to the start of the 2021 spring season.
• Sim made four of her six saves in the second half, keeping Howard off the scoreboard despite a 14-1 shot advantage for the home side after Loyola was reduced to 10 players.
• Sarah Bayer's assist was the 25th point of her Loyola career. She has 10 goals and five assists across 49 appearances for the Greyhounds.
• Nicole Rivas, MK Barnes, Alex Searing, Julia Gray and Chloe Kuminkoski all played the full 90 minutes to help Loyola secure the shutout victory.

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.
• A first team All-Patriot League honoree, 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.