The sixth-seeded Wesleyan women's soccer team heads into the NESCAC Tournament for the fourth straight season. The defending NESCAC runner-up Cardinals look to make it back to the title match, beginning postseason play with a quarterfinal showdown at third-seeded Bowdoin on Saturday at 12:00 pm.

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WESLEYAN SCOUTING REPORT

• The Cardinals advanced to their first-ever NESCAC title game last season, defeating Bowdoin and Hamilton on the way to the championship game where they tied Middlebury 1-1 before losing out on the title in penalty kicks
• This is Wesleyan's 10^th appearance in the NESCAC Tournament and fourth straight dating back to 2018
• Wesleyan (7-4-4) is assured of a winning record this season, marking the fourth straight season wherein the Cardinals have posted a winning season, the longest such streak in the program's 44-year history
• The Wesleyan lineup features many holdovers from the squad that advanced to the national semifinal last season, as eight of the Cardinals' 11 starters from the Final 4 game against TCNJ are featuring in this year's lineup
• 18 of the Cardinals' 21 goals scored and 48 of the team's total 62 points this season have been scored by seniors 

CARDINALS TO WATCH

• Reigning NESCAC Player of the Year and the program's first-ever All-American Grace Devanny '23 leads the team in points (16), assists (four) and is tied for the team-lead in goals (six) this season
• Devanny leads the NESCAC in shots (58) this season while she has 28 goals and 71 points in a career that has spanned 52 games
• Dani Milovanov '23 is enjoying a career year as the senior is tied with Devanny for the team-lead in goals (six) to go along with three assists for 15 points in 13 games this season
• Audrey Lavey '23 is third on the team with four goals while Kate Hausladen '23 has five points (two goals, one assist) in 2022
• Wesleyan has the luxury of two senior center backs with multiple years of starting experience alongside one another as Cheyanne Ollie '23 and Chloe Odabashian '23 have started 36 games as the Cardinals' center backs the last two seasons
• Ollie has started in all 51 career appearances, racking up 4,253 career minutes while Odabashian has 38 career starts and 3,639 minutes
• With 56 career starts and 4,821 minutes played, Sarah Hammond '22 has been a stalwart for the Cardinals since her freshman year in 2018. She sports a 0.79 career goals-against average and .832 save percentage with a 33-13-9 record and 14 shutouts
• Hammond heads into the postseason playing her best soccer of the season, as the grad student has allowed only one goal in the past 348 minutes, and that goal was on a penalty kick
• Isabelle Martin '23 has been a steady presence in the holding midfield position, starting all 15 games and leading the team in minutes (1,232) among non-defenders
• Caty Clements '25 has started the last 21 straight games at left back since being inserted into the starting lineup late in the 2021 season 

BOWDOIN SCOUTING REPORT

• The Polar Bears (10-4-1) are one of just three teams (Middlebury and Amherst) to qualify for the NESCAC Tournament every year since its inception in 2000
• Bowdoin has never won the NESCAC Championship, advancing to the title match three times, most-recently in 2015
• Bowdoin is tied for third in the NESCAC in terms of scoring offense (2.47 goals/game) this season and fourth in terms of NESCAC only stats (1.3 goals/game)
• The Polar Bears have allowed one goal or less in their last four straight NESCAC games, posting three shutouts in that span with the one loss being a 1-0 home defeat to Wesleyan last Saturday 

POLAR BEARS TO WATCH

• A lethal one-two punch up top poses big problems for defenses as Samaya Bernardo (10 goals, three assists) and Morgan Smiley (nine goals) rank second and third in the NESCAC leaderboard in terms of goals and points this season
• Kyra Hacker leads the team and ranks fifth in the NESCAC with five assists in 2022
• Alex Arndt has started all 15 games in goal for Bowdoin and sports a 0.66 goals-against average with six clean sheets (eight combined shutouts) and a .859 save percentage in over 1,200 minutes
• Jess Klein leads the team in minutes with 1,261 as she will lead the Bowdoin back line alongside Katrina Reidy, Shannon Gallagher and holding midfielder Greta Farkas

SERIES HISTORY

• This will be the 47^th all-time meeting between the two sides with Bowdoin sporting a 32-10-4 record against the Cardinals in the series history
• Wesleyan, however, has won the last five straight meetings against the Polar Bears including a 2-1 NESCAC Quarterfinal victory in Middletown last season
• The last four straight games between the two sides have all been decided by one goal
• Wesleyan is 3-17-1 all-time in Brunswick
• The only other NESCAC Tournament meeting between Wesleyan and Bowdoin was the 2021 contest (2-1 Cardinal victory) 

2022 MEETING (Wesleyan 1, No. 25 Bowdoin 0 – Brunswick, ME | Box Score | Recap)

• This year's regular season matchup was a pivotal road victory for the Cardinals, who sat just one point above the eighth-place team at the time in the NESCAC standings
• Devanny scored in the 18^th minute and her tally held up as Hammond made seven saves in net to preserve the 1-0 victory
• The Cardinal defense was at their best in this one, holding Bowdoin without a shot attempt in the final 22 minutes, protecting a 1-0 lead

NESCAC TOURNAMENT INFO

• Quarterfinal action occurs at the top four seeds on Saturday, October 29. The rest of the tournament will be hosted on Saturday, November 5 (semifinals) and Sunday, November 6 (championship) at the highest remaining seed.
• Visit the NESCAC website for Championship Central and the NESCAC Seeding Announcement