SAN DIEGO – Wrapping up its longest stretch of games away from home this season, four straight, the San Diego State women's soccer team travels to Colorado Springs, Colo., to match-up against Air Force on Friday night and at Colorado College in a Sunday matinee
Up This Week
San Diego State (5-7-1, 4-2-0 MW) at Air Force (8-4-1, 3-3-0 MW)
Friday, Oct. 18 | 6:00 p.m. (MT) | Cadet Soccer Stadium | USAFA, Colo.
San Diego State (5-7-1, 4-2-0 MW) at Colorado College (8-4-0, 3-3-0 MW)
Sunday, Oct. 20 | 1:00 p.m. (MT) | Stewart Field | Colorado Springs, Colo.
Aztecs Notes
• San Diego State continues its 2019 Mountain West Conference schedule this week with a pair of road games at Air Force and Colorado College.
• The Aztecs have played the Falcons 23 times darting back to the 1993 season and lead the all-time series 21-1-1, which includes a 9-1-0 record in games played at Air Force. SDSU has won the last eight meetings in Colorado Springs, including a 4-0 result in 2017, the last time the programs met on the Falcons home field. In the last six games at Cadet Soccer Stadium, San Diego has held the Falcons scoreless while putting 11 balls in the back of the net.
• SDSU and Colorado College have met 10 times dating back to the 1992 season with San Diego State holding a 5-2-3 advantage in the series. The teams have only played three times in Colorado Springs, where the Tigers are 2-1-0 against the Aztecs. Colorado College took the last match-up in Colorado Springs 2-1 in 2017 and the teams are tied with 10 goals apiece in the three matchups on the Tigers home field.
• Laura Fuentes (So., MF, Newark, Calif.) scored both goals for San Diego State last weekend as the team split a pair of road games at Boise State and Utah State and was named the Mountain West Offensive Player of the Week. Fuentes' goal at Boise State, on a penalty kick, came in the 75th minute and cut the Broncos' lead in half in a 2-1 defeat. Then at Utah State, she got the game-winning header in the 68th minute of a 1-0 victory. They were the first two goals of the season for the MW's 2019 Newcomer of the Year.
• For her efforts in the Aztecs' two-game sweep the week ending October 6, Brooke Lisowski (Sr., GK, Los Gatos, Calif.) was named the Mountain West Defensive Player of the Week. Lisowski was in goal for all 180 minutes, faced 20 shots and stopped three of the four that reached her line. Her goals against average was 0.50 and her save percentage was .750. It was her first weekly conference award and the first for an Aztec women's soccer player this season.
• The Aztecs ended a six-game winless streak with its 2-0 decision over Colorado State (9/29). The win was the first since a 1-0 victory over LIU (8/25) and at the time marked just the second occurrence this season the team had found the back of the net more than once in a game. The other time was two days prior in a 3-2 loss at Wyoming. San Diego State scored a season-high four goals one week later in a 4-1 decision over Nevada.
• After a tough preseason schedule in which the team went 1-5-1 and scored just three goals versus 13 for the opposition, Mountain West play came at the right time. In its last five games, all conference matchups, the Aztecs are 4-1-0 and have outscored opponents 9-3.
• With decisions over Colorado State (2-0), UNLV (1-0) and Nevada (4-1), from Sept. 29 to Oct. 6, the SDSU enjoyed its longest run of wins, three games, since the program put together six straight victories near the end of the 2017 season.
• The flood gates opened in SDSU's 4-1 victory over Nevada. It was the highest output since a 5-0 win over Air Force (10/22/18) and just the second time it has put up at least three goals since a 3-0 win over New Mexico (11/4/17) in that season's Mountain West Tournament's championship game.
• The Aztecs have gotten balanced scoring from the players who have found the back of the net this season and opponents can't focus on one player who can put it in the goal. SDSU has seven players who have scored; one has three goals; five have recorded two tallies and another has a single goal.
• Welcome back Darcy Weiser (Sr., F, Huntington Beach, Calif.). Weiser missed the first seven games and didn't make her season debut until the 38th minute at Wyoming (9/27). She scored her first goal of the year in the 82nd minute in Laramie which started a four-goal run for SDSU over the next 98 minutes and sparked a three-game winning streak. The tally started the Aztecs come back from a 3-0 deficit to the Cowgirls to make the final decision 3-2. In the team's next game, against Colorado State (9/29), SDSU was the victor, 2-0. Against UNLV (10/4), Weiser picked up her second goal, the game winner, in a 1-0 win and she assisted on the goal that put the game away in the team's 4-1 win over Nevada (10/6).
• Strikers strike...and along with Weiser's two tallies, Taylor Moorehead (So., F, Valencia, Calif.) got into the goal scoring action in Laramie and against Nevada. Moorehead's goal at Wyoming got the Aztecs to within one, 3-2, with under 10 minutes to play. It was her first goal of the year and the fourth of her career and she added her second goal of the campaign in the 4-1 victory against Nevada. In the Colorado State win, Rachelle Elve (Fr., F, Huntington Beach, Calif.) became the third striker to score this year and she followed that goal with the game winner in the squad's decision against Nevada.
Opponent Notebook
Air Force
The Falcons enter the game against San Diego State with an 8-4-1 overall record, which includes an 3-3-0 mark in Mountain West play, which leaves them in a tie with Colorado College in sixth place... AFA split a pair of games last week with a 2-1 win at UNLV and a loss (1-2) at Nevada... At home this season Air Force is 5-3-0, 1-2-0 in conference contests. Lexi Romero leads her squad with 10 goals, four assists and 24 points... The defense is anchored by keeper Danielle Katz, who this season, has every minute of the team's 13 games. She has as 1.10 GAA, a .758 save percentage and an 8-4-1 record... AFA is coached by Larry Friend who is in his 11th season leading the program and brought a 52-107-24 record at the Academy into the 2019 season.
Colorado College
The Tigers enter the week with a 8-4-0 (3-3-0 MW) record and host New Mexico on Friday before its match with the Aztecs on Sunday...Colorado College is 7-2-0 in games in Colorado Springs and 2-2-0 in Mountain West home games... Jacqui Hand leads the team with seven goals and 15 points and Kiley Suter tops the squad with nine assists... Abbie Opperman has played the majority of the minutes in goal this season. She has a 0.64 GAA and an 0.848 save percentage with a 6-2-0 record in 701:24... The Tigers are coached by Geoff Bennett, who is in his 16th season at Colorado College and brought a 157-104-39 record at the school into the 2019 season.