Match Information
Opponent	Lafayette Leopards
Date	Saturday, October 2, 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 continues conference play this weekend, hosting Lafayette in the first meeting between the two sides since the 2019 Patriot League quarterfinals.
  

Last Time Out

• Sarah Mirr went coast-to-coast while scoring her second goal of the season in the 15th minute, and Paige Sim matched a season high with seven saves during a 1-1 draw for Loyola at Army West Point last Saturday.
• The Greyhounds earned the program's first-ever point at Army. Trinity Garay equalized off a corner kick for the Black Knights (4-4-3, 1-0-2 PL) in the 51st minute.
• Mirr's effort, her second goal of the year, started well inside Loyola's defensive zone. She raced through the midfield, maneuvered around an Army defender and blasted a shot from outside the box into the left corner to put the Greyhounds in front.
• The visitors had the top two chances to score in the extra sessions. Baylee DeSmit had a chip over the goalkeeper cleared on the goal line by Army defender Andrea Riddle in the closing seconds of the first overtime, and Kaleigh Gallagher had a shot inside the box stopped by a charging Sage Strohman in goal in the 103rd minute.

Series History

• Loyola leads 5-2-3 in a series which dates back to 1998.
• The Greyhounds won both meetings during the 2019 season. Hannah Hoefs' long-distance strike in the 108th minute secured a 1-0 victory for Loyola in the Patriot League quarters. That was the first tournament victory for the program since joining the conference in 2013.
• Hoefs and Kaleigh Gallagher both scored early in the first half of a 2-1 home victory during the regular season that year.
• Lafayette's last victory in the series was a 3-1 home triumph in the 2018 regular season finale for both sides.

• The Greyhounds have won each of the last 11 games in which they have scored two goals or more, a streak which dates back to Sept. 6, 2018. Loyola is 3-0-0 when scoring multiple goals this season.
• The Greyhounds are also undefeated (3-0-1) when leading at halftime this fall. They are 5-0-2 overall in their last seven games when holding an advantage at the intermission.

More on Sim

• Paige Sim is a two-time Patriot League Goalkeeper of the Week this season, and she has earned six weekly awards overall during her first two-plus seasons at Loyola (5x Goalkeeper of the Week, 1x Rookie of the Week).
• Sim has played 1019 out of a possible 1030 minutes this season, and she has totaled 6+ saves in seven of her 11 appearances.
• For the year, Sim is 4-5-2 with a 1.24 goals-against average, a .788 save percentage and three shutouts. Taking away Loyola's defeats to ACC leaders Clemson and Wake Forest, she is 4-3-2 with a 0.75 GAA and .851 save percentage.
• Sim was a third team All-Patriot League honoree during the 2021 spring season, and she was a second team selection following her freshman season in 2019.
• For her career, Sim is 13-9-8 with a 0.77 GAA, a .831 save percentage and 11 shutouts.

Worth Noting

• Sarah Bayer became the program's first three-time All-Patriot League honoree after earning third team accolades last spring, and she is Loyola's active scoring leader with 25 points (10 G, 5 A) in 51 collegiate appearances.
• Loyola has earned a result in 12 of 16 regular season games against Patriot League opponents since 2019, going 6-4-6 during that stretch.
• Nine of 11 primary starters from the spring are back for the Greyhounds this season, including six former All-Patriot League players in Bayer (2018 - 2nd Team, 2019 - 1st Team, Spring 2021 - 3rd Team) Paige Sim (2019 - 2nd Team, Spring 2021 - 3rd Team), Ada Clare Tempert (Spring 2021 - 1st Team), Kaleigh Gallagher (2019 - 3rd Team), Julia Gray (2019 - 2nd Team) and Nicole Rivas (Spring 2021 - 3rd Team).
• Gray, who served as Loyola's co-SAAC president for the 2020-21 academic year, was announced in June as the Patriot League's representative on the NCAA Division I SAAC. She begins her two-year term this fall.
• Gray, Rivas and Gillian Borton were chosen as team captains for the 2021 season. Borton is a first-year team captain, while Gray and Rivas served as co-captains for the 2020-21 academic year.
• A second team All-Patriot League honoree in 2019, Gray was also a Preseason All-Patriot League selection in the spring before missing a majority of the season due to injury. She started all 19 games at center back in 2019, anchoring a defense which surrendered just seven goals over the season's final 12 contests.
• Loyola has two of the last three Maryland Gatorade Girls Soccer Player of the Year honorees on its roster, with Tempert recognized in 2019 and freshman Baylee DeSmit chosen in 2020.