Soccer Sets Sails for Athens Sunday

			OLE MISS (8-3-2, 2-1-2) at GEORGIA (5-6-2, 1-3-1) Sunday, Oct. 13 • 2 p.m. • Athens, Ga. Turner Soccer Complex
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QUICK KICKS
• Ole Miss is coming off of a thrilling 3-2 win over No. 19 Florida Thursday night in Oxford.

• It was Ole Miss' third-ever victory over the Gators and the first since 2009. All three wins have come at home.

• The win was also Ole Miss first victory over a ranked team in three chances.

• Ole Miss scored three times against the Gators, the same number of goals the Rebels managed through their first four SEC games combined. It was the most goals allowed by the Gators since a 3-1 defeat to USC in late August.

• Channing Foster, Lonnie Mulligan and Molly Martin were the goal scorers for Ole Miss, with Mulligan becoming the eighth different Rebel to score in 2019. True freshman Saydie Holland picked up her first career assist in the match.

• Ole Miss is currently No. 44 in the NCAA RPI report, falling two places from last week's standing at No. 42.

• After picking up a win against No. 11 RPI Florida, the Rebels will face Georgia on Sunday, ranked No. 68 in the RPI.

• Georgia has been a tough opponent for Ole Miss in recent years, with the Bulldogs owning a 3-2-1 record in the last six meetings with the Rebels.

• Ole Miss hasn't won in Athens since the 2013 season, a 3-1 victory over then-No. 20 ranked Georgia.

SCOUTING GEORGIA
Georgia is in its fifth season under head coach Billy Lesesne, who has guided the Bulldogs to a 19-44-9 record during his stay in Athens. Prior to arriving at Georgia, Lesesne was the associate head coach at Duke, spending 14 seasons in Durham after a pair of campaigns as an assistant coach at Vanderbilt. Lesesne cut his teeth in head coaching at the Division II level, coaching the men's and women's teams at his alma mater, Erskine College, for six seasons.

Georgia enters Sunday's matchup with Ole Miss with a 5-6-2 overall record, sitting at 1-3-1 in SEC play. After picking up their only conference win of the season at Missouri at the end of September, the Bulldogs have dropped their last two games, falling 1-0 to both Vanderbilt and Tennessee.

Georgia is led in scoring by freshman forward Chloe Chapman, who has found the back of the net five times in her first collegiate season. Junior forward Glisson Reagan is two behind Chapman with three goals, while junior midfielder/defender Ashley Andersen is the only other Bulldog with multiple goals. Junior forward Katie Ralys paces Georgia with four assists, while sophomore midfielder Dani Murguia has dished out three helpers. In goal, sophomore Emory Wegener has been the primary keeper, making 11 starts and posting a 1.07 GAA and a .750 save percentage in 1,010 minutes.

SERIES HISTORY - GEORGIA
Georgia holds a slight lead in the all-time series with Ole Miss, boasting a 10-9-3 record against the Rebels. While Ole Miss won the last meeting between the two sides, Georgia has held the edge in recent memory, winning three of the last six meetings with a 3-2-1 record during that stretch. Ole Miss is 4-5 all-time in Athens.

LAST MEETING - GEORGIA (9/21/17)
OXFORD, Miss. - A productive night of offense gave No. 20 Ole Miss its first Southeastern Conference win of the season as the Rebels claimed a 4-1 win over Georgia in the league home opener.

The Rebels wasted no time getting in the scoring column, taking a 2-0 lead within the first 10 minutes of play. They would go on to add two second-half scores, while Georgia found the net late in the match.

Just four minutes in, at the 4:35 mark, CeCe Kizer played a ball in from the far corner of the box, before Channing Foster flicked it in left-footed from five yards out to put the Rebels in front 1-0. Just six minutes later, Mary Kate Smith made a deep run to the end line, before Kizer got a foot on it in the box, and Julia Phillips recovered to punch it in from seven yards out to extend the lead to 2-0.

That score held through the halftime break as the two sides finished fairly even in the statistical columns with seven shots for both teams, and a combined five saves in the opening 45 minutes, including three from Marnie Merritt.

Coming out of half, Grace Johnson collected a free ball inside the box and found the net left-footed at the 56:15 mark, pushing the advantage to 3-0. Georgia would score its lone goal in the 70th minute when Mariel Gutierrez found the net on the far corner.

Then, at the 77:28 mark, Kizer, with two assists in her back pocket already, took advantage of a free ball in the box off a Gabby Little pass, and made the keeper pay, capping the scoring at 4-1 on the game.

LETTING IT FLY
It's safe to say that there isn't really a player on the Rebel roster that hasn't seen a chance to shoot that they didn't like. Ole Miss ranks second in the SEC and 15th nationally with 18.08 shot attempts per game. While the Rebs would probably like to see their shots on goal average increase, testing the keeper 7.15 times per match is also nothing to sneeze at, ranking fourth in the conference and 53rd nationally.

Individually, Channing Foster leads the SEC with 4.85 shot attempts per match, ranking ninth in the nation overall. Foster also ranks second in the conference with 4.40 attempts per game during league play. Meanwhile, Haleigh Stackpole's 39 shots in 13 matches brings her average to 3.00 per game in 2019, ranking seventh in the SEC.

MULLIGAN JOINS THE FRAY
Less than one minute into the second half in Ole Miss' 3-2 victory over Florida, sophomore Lonnie Mulligan scored her first goal of the season, becoming the eighth different Rebel to bag a goal in 2019. Mulligan had been far and away the player with the most shot attempts yet to score, entering the match with 17 attempts. No other Rebel that hadn't yet scored had more than four. It was Mulligan's second goal of her career, scoring against Arkansas in 2018.

MANNING THE PIPES
Sophomore Ashley Orkus has been tested often throughout her first playing season at Ole Miss and for the most part, the Tennessee transfer has come through with flying colors. Orkus is tied for second in the SEC with 57 saves on the season, averaging 4.38 per game. Orkus has faced 75 total shots in 2019, posting a save percentage of .760, ranking eighth in the Southeastern Conference. Orkus has made at least five saves in eight of the last 10 matches and 9-of-13 overall.

CARDIAC REBS
This season, the Rebels have been no stranger to a little bonus soccer, having five matches in 2019 extended into extra time. Ole Miss has been extremely successful in overtime contests, posting a 3-0-2 record with a trio of golden goals. Over the previous two seasons, the Rebels played in six overtime games combined without scoring a single golden goal.

IRON WOMAN
Since beginning her collegiate career a season ago, Haleigh Stackpole has been an absolute fixture in the Rebel lineup. The Fort Bragg, North Carolina native has started all 35 matches over the past two seasons while almost never coming off the pitch despite consistently totaling the highest distance travelled as a box-to-box midfielder. Stackpole ranked second on the team during her freshman campaign with 1850 total minutes, just over 84 per match. This season, Stackpole is joined only by Rebel keeper Ashley Orkus in playing every second of the Rebels' 1,253 minutes of game time.

PHILLIPS JOINS THE ATTACK
Senior captain Julia Phillips has seen an uptick in her involvement on the offensive side of the pitch in 2019, ranking second on the team with four goals this season. Phillips has found the back of the net four times this season after scoring only three times in her first 45 collegiate contests combined. The Rebel midfielder has been extremely efficient with her offense, needing just 18 shots to record her four goals, putting seven attempts on frame.

FOSTER ENTERS TOP 10
Midway through her junior season, striker Channing Foster is already one of the most prolific scorers in Ole Miss history. The Murray, Kentucky native scored for the third straight game in the 3-0 victory over Long Beach State, the 26th goal of her career, tying her for 10th most on Ole Miss' all-time career scoring list. Now up to 28, Foster will have a shot to topple CeCe Kizer's record of 48 career goals, set just last season.

FROM THE FLAG
Ole Miss currently ranks ninth in the nation with 7.23 corners per game, third most in the SEC. However, much of the Rebels' total was built up early in the season. The Rebels have failed to register five corners or more in five of the last seven matches after racking up double digit attempts from the corner flag in four of the season's first five contests. Ole Miss is averaging 3.6 corner kick attempts in SEC play, tied for third fewest in the league.

LATER GATORS
Entering its fifth conference game of the season against No. 19 Florida, Ole Miss had scored three goals total in SEC play. The Rebels matched that number against the Gators, winning a back-and-forth affair behind goals from Channing Foster, Lonnie Mulligan and Molly Martin. It is just the third win over Florida in program-history and the first since 2009. All three of Ole Miss' wins against the Gators have come within the friendly confines of the Ole Miss Soccer Stadium.

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Players Mentioned

Channing Foster

Saydie Holland

Grace Johnson

CeCe Kizer

Gabby Little

Molly Martin

Marnie Merritt

Lonnie Mulligan

Ashley Orkus

Julia Phillips

Mary Kate Smith

Haleigh Stackpole

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