Buffs Face No. 4 Stanford In Final Road Match

BOULDER – The University of Colorado women’s soccer team travels west to California to face No. 4 Stanford in its final road match of the regular season on Thursday, Oct. 16 at 7 p.m.

Colorado is 10-4 overall and 3-2 in Pac-12 play. CU has won two straight after road victories against Oregon State and Oregon last weekend.

The Buffs will look for their first win over Stanford in program history. Colorado is winless in five meetings against the Cardinal. Thursday’s match will be the third time CU has played at Stanford’s Laird Q. Cagan Stadium and first time under head coach Danny Sanchez. The Buffs’ last trip to the Cardinal’s turf was in 2011.

The match will be televised on Pac-12 Networks. J.B. Long and Krista Blunk have the call. Live stats will also be available on cubuffs.com.

QUICKLY: Colorado (10-4, 3-2 Pac-12) travels to Stanford, Calif. to face the No. 4 Cardinal on Thursday, Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. MT in its final road match of the season. The Buffs are coming off a weekend sweep in the Pacific Northwest after defeating Oregon State 1-0 on Friday and then came back to top Oregon 2-1 in the final 15 minutes on Sunday.

DON’T MISS A MINUTE: Thursday’s match will be televised on Pac-12 Networks. J.B. Long and Krista Blunk have the call. Live stats  will also be available on cubuffs.com.

INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES: For those members of the media wishing to interview the women’s soccer team during the season, please contact Assistant Sports Information Director/Soccer Contact Ashley Braun at (303) 492-7525 or ashley.braun@colorado.edu.

COLORADO VS. STANFORD: Colorado enters Thursday’s match winless against Stanford in five meetings. Colorado last played at the Cardinal’s Laird Q. Cagan Stadium in 2011 when the Buffs fell 4-1. The Buffs are 0-2 all time on Stanford’s home turf. Last season, Colorado hosted the Cardinal and dropped the match 2-0 at Prentup Field.

SCOUTING THE CARDINAL: Stanford is 11-1-2 overall and 3-1-1 in Pac-12 play. The Cardinal’s only loss this season came last week against No. 1 UCLA in Los Angeles, Calif. when the Bruins scored two goals in the last 14 minutes to edge out the Cardinal 2-1. Stanford is tied for first in the Pac-12 in goals allowed, only surrendering four over 14 matches as the Cardinal has recorded 11 shutouts.  They are second in the nation in goals-against average, posting an impressive .274 mark. Ryan Walker-Hartshorn leads the team with eight goals and Chioma Ubogagu is the Cardinal’s assist leader with five. Goalkeeper Jane Campbell is ninth in the country and first in the conference with a .889 save percentage. Stanford has been ranked as high as No. 3 in the weekly NSCAA poll and has held a spot in the top-five since the first week of the season.

LAST WEEK: The Buffaloes were in Oregon last week and left with two victories in hand. On Friday, Colorado defeated Oregon State 1-0 behind Brie Hooks’ team-leading fifth goal of the season. On Sunday, Kahlia Hogg was the hero for CU, as she recorded her first multi-goal match of year, with two goals in the final 15 minutes to give the Buffs a 2-1 win against the Oregon Ducks. Hogg now has four goals in the 2014 campaign.

PAC-12 PRESEASON POLL: The Buffs were predicted to finish fifth in the Pac-12 Conference Preseason Coaches Poll. UCLA, last year’s NCAA Champion, was picked to finish first. Stanford was second, followed by Cal, USC, CU, Washington State and Utah. Arizona State and Washington tied for eighth, Arizona, Oregon and Oregon State rounded out the list.

PAC-12 NETWORKS: In its third year, the Pac-12 Networks will air 69 women’s soccer games, including nine of the Buffs’ matchups. Women’s soccer is the marquee event on the Networks’ telecast schedule Friday and Sunday afternoons during the fall with additional primetime matchups on Monday and Thursday.

HOOKS IN THE LEAD: Sophomore Brie Hooks leads the team with five goals and 14 points, one goal and two points ahead of senior Kahlia Hogg. Hooks’ five goals is already more than half the number she tallied last season (8) when she played in 19 matches during her freshman year.

JERMAN’S CAREER YEAR: Senior Darcy Jerman has tied her single-season career-high with three goals and has set a new personal record with three assists this season, more than doubling her previous best (1).

NEARING 300: CU head coach Danny Sanchez is only one victory away from reaching 300 career wins. Sanchez’s coaching career spans 20 seasons where he holds an impressive 299-79-29 record. He is in his third season at Colorado and has led the team to a 32-19-6 record, including an appearance in last year’s NCAA Sweet 16.

SHARING THE BALL: Colorado is tied for third in the Pac-12 Conference with 25 assists, averaging 1.79 per match. Brie  Hooks and Kahlia Hogg lead the squad with four each, while Darcy Jerman and Joss Orejel tied in second, each having three.

HOGG NAMED ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Junior Kahlia Hogg earned CU Athlete of the Week honors after her stellar performance in last week’s match against Oregon. Hogg scored two goals for the Buffaloes in the game’s final 15 minutes as CU came back to defeat the Ducks 2-1 in Eugene, Ore. Colorado was trailing 1-0 until the 75th minute when she scored the equalizer and recorded her third goal of the year. Only 12 minutes later, she knocked in the game-winning goal off a rebound. The goal, number four on the year , was her second game-winner in 2014, allowing the Buffs to sweep their weekend road trip for the first time since joining the Pac-12 Conference in 2011.

NEXT WEEK: The Buffs return to Boulder to conclude the regular season with five homes matches. First up, Colorado hosts Washington State on Friday, Oct. 24 (3 p.m. MT) and Washington on Sunday, Oct. 26 (1 p.m. MT). Friday’s contest will be televised on Pac-12 Networks.

COLORADO’S RECORD WHEN…
Home......................................................6-2
Away.......................................................4-1
Neutral....................................................0-1
Leading at halftime.................................5-0
Tied at halftime...................................... 4-3
Trailing at halftime..................................1-1
In overtime..............................................0-1
Against ranked opponents......................1-2
Scoring first.............................................9-0
Opponent scores first.............................1-4

2014 SEASON AWARDS:
Carly Bolyard
UNLV Nike Invitational All-Tournament Team

Tori Cooper
Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week
UNLV Nike Invitational All-Tournament Team

Kahlia Hogg
CU Athlete of the Week

Brie Hooks
UNLV Nike Invitational All-Tournament Team

Darcy Jerman
CU Athlete of the Week
UNLV Nike Invitational All-Tournament Team