Match 15
Southern Utah at Centenary
Shreveport, Louisiana
Sunday, Oct. 24, 11 a.m. (MST)
LIVE STATS AVAILABLE

THUNDERBIRDS CLOSE OUT ROAD SLATE AGAINST ORU, CENTENARY
Southern Utah University will make its final road trip of the season this weekend, facing Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla. on Friday before matching up with Centenary in Shreveport, La. on Sunday.

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COMING UP
Next week, Southern Utah will wrap up the regular season and look to make one last push towards earning one of the four berths into the Summit League Tournament with a pair of home matches. The Thunderbirds will host current first place University of Oakland on Thursday before facing IPFW on Saturday in the season finale. Prior to the match against IPFW, SUU will acknowledge its two seniors Allison Thompson and Erin Wright.

LAST WEEKEND
Southern Utah suffered a pair of defeats last weekend, each by one goal. On Thursday, Shelby Ostler scored two goals and Riley Bassett added her team-leading seventh goal of the season but late goals by the South Dakota State led to a 4-3 loss for SUU. On Saturday, a defensive battle took place as SUU and North Dakota State held one another scoreless throughout regulation and one overtime session. In the second overtime period, a scramble for the ball inside the Thunderbird box resulted in an NDSU player kicking in a loose ball to earn a 1-0 win for the Bison.

ABOUT THE ORAL ROBERTS GOLDEN EAGLES
Oral Roberts University enters Friday's match with a 7-6-1 overall record and 2-2-1 in Summit League play after dropping a pair of matches last weekend. ORU leads the all-time series 6-2-2 against SUU, taking last season's meeting 1-0 in Cedar City. Jennifer Abernathy paces the club with five goals and 11 total points while goalkeeper Amanda Wheeler owns a 1.52 GAA and one shutout. Ryan Bush is in his third season as head coach of the Golden Eagles.

ABOUT THE CENTENARY LADIES
Centenary College comes into the week with a 3-11 overall record and a 0-5 mark in Summit League play. Southern Utah leads the all-time series 4-2-1 with the Ladies despite Centenary taking last season's meeting 2-1 in Cedar City. Kortney Causey leads the team with three goals while goalkeeper Kalyn Harris owns a 2.50 GAA and has posted four shutouts. Glenn Evans is in his 14th season as head coach of the Ladies.

BASSETT AND BOOTH IN THE RECORD BOOK
Both junior midfielder Riley Bassett and redshirt-sophomore keeper Charly Booth are enjoying record-setting seasons for Southern Utah University. In the single-season record book, Bassett currently sits second in goals (7), one behind Brooklyn Phillips top mark of eight. She also finds herself third in total points with 14, six away from the Phillips record of 20. Booth has also climbed into the record book, owning three shutouts, the third-most in a season and also recording 77 saves to put herself in fourth place on the single-season saves list.

TRIO OF THUNDERBIRDS AMONG LEAGUE LEADERS
Junior midfielders Elyse Alexander and Riley Bassett along with redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Charly Booth find themselves among the league leaders in the most recent set of Summit League stats. Bassett comes into the week leading the conference in shots (46), second in goals (7) and fourth in total points (14). Alexander is tied for eighth in the conference with three assists while Booth comes into the week with the third-most saves (77) and with the ninth best goals-against-average (1.72).

FOUR THUNDERBIRDS NOTCH FIRST CAREER GOALS
Juniors Elyse Alexander, Emily Belnap and McKenzie Hadley along with sophomore Morgan Bridge have each scored their first career goals this season. Alexander and Bridge both scored in the 8-0 route of Embry-Riddle University Aug. 26 while Belnap and Hadley each recorded a goal in the 4-3 defeat at Idaho State University on Sept. 12.

BASSETT, THUNDERBIRDS AMONG NATIONAL STAT LEADERS
The Southern Utah offense comes into the week ranked No. 91 nationally out of 325 Division I teams in scoring offense (1.69 GPG) while junior midfielder Riley Bassett is ranked No. 71 in the country in goals-per-game (0.54).

BOOTH POSTS SCORELESS MINUTE STREAK, RECORDS SHUTOUTS
Earlier this season, redshirt sophomore keeper Charly Booth picked up the first shutout of her first career earlier and posted a 288:18 scoreless minute streak. The Bountiful, Utah native blanked Embry-Riddle University Aug. 25 and William Penn University Aug. 28 after holding Utah Valley scoreless the final 55 minutes of the season-opener. Booth then held Northern Colorado scoreless the first 53 minutes of the match on Sept. 10.

BASSETT HIGHLIGHTS SUU's RECORD-SETTING MATCH
In Southern Utah University's 8-0 victory over Embry-Riddle University Aug. 25, the Thunderbirds set single-game school-records for goals (8) and total points (21), and also tied the single-game record with five assists. Junior midfielder Riley Bassett topped the individual record books by scoring a program-best four goals to give her eight total points which were also a single-game record. No other Thunderbird had ever recorded a hat trick, let alone four goals in a match prior to Bassett.

BASSETT, BOOTH AWARDED SUMMIT LEAGUE WEEKLY ACCOLADES
Riley Bassett and Charly Booth were named Summit League Offensive Player and Co-Defensive Player of the Week, respectively, on Aug. 30. Bassett earned her first career weekly accolade after producing a record-setting week for the Thunderbirds who beat Embry-Riddle and William Penn during the week. Bassett scored a single-match school record four goals in the Aug. 25 8-0 victory over Embry-Riddle University, becoming the first Thunderbird to record a hat trick and also set the school's single-match record for points with eight. She later closed out the week with another goal that proved to be the match-winner in the 2-0 win over William Penn University Aug. 28. Booth also earned her first career weekly honor after posting a pair of shutouts during the week. Booth made nine saves to post her first career shutout in the win over Embry-Riddle and later stopped the only shot-on-goal she faced in the victory over William Penn.