Gameday: Pirates Head To UCF For Road Finale Sunday

Match 16: East Carolina at UCF
Date	Sunday, Oct. 23
Time	1 p.m. (EDT)
Location	Orlando, Fla.
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GREENVILLE, N.C. - The East Carolina women's soccer team will play its final match of the 2016 season when it travels to Orlando, Fla., to face UCF in American Athletic Conference action on Sunday, Oct. 23. Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m.

ALL-TIME VERSUS UCF
East Carolina (4-10-1, 0-5-1 AAC) will meet the Knights for the 14th time overall and trails the all-time series, 2-9-2. The Pirates earned a stunning 1-0 home win in last year's matchup in Greenville when Kendall Frey broke a scoreless tie with what proved to be a game-winning goal with just 31 seconds remaining in regulation.

SCOUTING THE KNIGHTS
UCF (7-7-1, 2-3-1 AAC) enters Sunday's contest with just one victory in its last five matches and is coming off a 2-0 loss to Cincinnati on Thursday night. Striker Carol Rodrigues leads the club with 22 points on 10 goals and two assists, while Morgan Ferrera has five goals and one helper.

EXTRA TIME
ECU has played consecutive overtime matches in its last two times on the pitch, including a double-overtime draw against Temple and an overtime defeat at USF. This marks the second time in as many seasons the Pirates have played into extra time in back-to-back games after doing so against Western Carolina and Charlotte in September of 2015.

FIRING THE CANNONS
ECU registered season-highs in total shots (25) and shots on goal (12) in a 1-1 draw against Houston on Oct. 16. The 25 shots were also the most in a single game since taking 28 attempts at Charlotte on Sept. 13, 2015, while the 12 shots on goal marked the third time this season the Pirates reached double-figures in that category this season (10 at Tulsa and 11 at Western Carolina).

THE LONGEST HIATUS
The Pirates went 12 days (Sept. 18-Sept. 30) between home games against UNC Greensboro and Cincinnati, which is the second-longest span of time between games in the program's 22-year history. The previous long was 17 days during the 1999 campaign due to the effects of Hurricane Floyd.

1. 17 days (Sept. 12-Sept. 29, 1999)
2. 12 days (Sept. 18-Sept. 30, 2016)
3. 11 days (August 27-Sept. 7, 2008)
4. 10 days (Oct. 3-13, 2002)

SPITLER STRIKES TWICE, TWICE
Senior striker Lana Spitler has scored two goals in the same contest on two occasions thus far in 2016. She accomplished the feat in a career-high five-point effort against Charlotte (9/11), as well as in a 4-0 rout of Western Carolina (8/28). She now has four-career multi-goal efforts as she also scored twice at UNC Greensboro (9/6/15) and at home against Temple (9/28/14).

SPITLER CLIMBING ALL-TIME SCORING LIST
Spitler's two goals against Charlotte on Sept. 11 were her fifth and six of the season and the 20th and 21st of her collegiate career, moving her into a tie for fifth place with Kendall Frey (2012-15) on ECU's all-time goals list.

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Players Mentioned

Kendall Frey

Lana Spitler

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