The William & Mary field hockey team wraps up its home schedule on Homecoming Weekend, hosting Drexel and No. 17 Wake Forest at Busch Field.  The Tribe will take on the Dragons on Friday night at 6 p.m., and then host the Demon Deacons Sunday at 1 p.m.

Senior Day
Before Sunday's match against Wake, the Tribe will take a moment to honor its senior class.  The ceremony is scheduled for a 12:52 p.m. start.

Scouting the Tribe
W&M is playing its best hockey of the year right now, and comes into the weekend at 5-7 overall and 2-1 in the Colonial Athletic Association.  Junior Cammie Lloyd (Midlothian, Va.) is having herself quite a year, and leads the team with 11 goals and three assists, ranking fourth in the CAA in points (2.08 per game) and goals (0.92 per game).  In conference play only, her rankings improve to second in all three scoring categories, 3.33 points, 1.33 goals, and 0.67 assists per game.  Juniors Booter Ellis (Delmar, Del.) and Erin Menges (Richmond, Va.) are tied for second in points with nine each, on two goals and five assists apiece, and also have a pair of defensive saves each.  In goal, freshman Morgan Connor (Bedford, N.Y.) has a 2.39 GAA and 62 saves, on a .674 save percentage.

Scouting the Dragons
Drexel is 6-7 overall and 1-1 in the CAA, with a win over Northeastern and a loss to James Madison.  Idrienne Walker leads the team with 19 points on eight goals and three assists, while Megan Wiest (18 points, 8g 2a) and Jessica McCarthy (17 points, 5g 7a) are right behind her.  On defense, Alison McCardell leads the CAA with three defensive saves, and Erin Gilchrist has a 3.22 GAA and 82 saves on a .678 save percentage.

Scouting the Demon Deacons
Wake Forest is 6-5 on the year and 0-4 in the ACC, and tied for 17th in the nation in the latest NFHCA national poll.  Nicole Pluta holds the offensive lead with 29 points on 13 goals and three assists, and Jule Grashoff is second with 17 points (6g, 5a).  In goal, Cat O'Connor has made 37 saves on a .627 save percentage, and is allowing 2.36 goals per game.

The Series
- The series with Drexel is tied 8-8, after each team won at home in the last two seasons.  W&M is 6-3 all-time in Williamsburg, including a 2-0 win in the last meeting here in 2014.
- Wake Forest leads the all-time series 5-7, including the previous two meetings this century in 2012 and 2013.  W&M is 4-2 all-time in Williamsburg, with its last win in the series (and at home) coming in 1997.

News and Notes
- The Tribe's 8-1 win over Towson saw a number of historically ranked performances.  It was the second-most points ever scored by W&M in a game (22), trailing only the 23 points scored against Lehigh in 1990, and also tied for the second-most assists in a single game (6), behind only nine helpers against Ursinus in 1994.  The eight goals scored by the Tribe were tied for third-most ever, behind nine goals in the 1990 Lehigh game and against Old Dominion in 1974, and the 45 shots taken were sixth-most ever, and the most since 1992.

- Junior Estelle Hughes (Newcastle, NSW) scored the first goal against Towson just 23 seconds into the contest.  That's the second-fastest goal in school history, trailing only the 21-seconds it took for senior captain Maria Jose Pastor (Burke, Va.) to score against against Temple in 2014.

- The shoot-out win over Davidson was notable for a number of reasons.  It was W&M's first shoot-out game of any sort since 2008, and the first win for the Tribe in a shoot-out since 1993.  All-time, the Tribe is now 5-5 in games decided by a shoot-out.

- The win over Richmond was the Tribe's first since the 2007 season.

- Lloyd was named the CAA Player of the Week on Oct. 3, after scoring three goals and an assist to open conference play.

- Connor was named the CAA Rookie of the Week on Sept. 20, after going 2-0 with a 0.82 GAA and 11 saves on an .846 save percentage.  She also picked up her first shut-out with the win over Richmond.

- The Tribe has won the CAA Rookie of the Week award three of the past four weeks, thanks to Connor and Annie Snead (Midlothian, Va.) who was honored on Sept. 13 and Oct. 3.

- Connor's 11 saves against No. 4 Duke in the season opener, a freshman record for W&M, were the most for any Tribe goalie since the 2014 season opener.

- In addition to the Tribe (who also received votes), 12 of the 18 teams on this year's schedule were either ranked or received votes in the pre-season NFHCA poll.  That includes seven of the national top-20, and three of the top-seven teams (No. 4 Duke, No. 5 Virginia, and No. 7 Wake Forest).

- Head coach Tess Ellis is in her fourth season with the Tribe, and has twice been named the CAA Coach of the Year (in both 2013 and 2014).

- Booter Ellis was named to the CAA pre-season team, and classmates Lloyd and Menges each earned honorable mention spots as well.

- This is the first season since 1986 that W&M enters the season with no previous game experience in goal.  That actually bodes pretty well for the Tribe, given that the 1986 season marked the debut for both Carlen Sellers '89 and Sharon Barone '90.  Sellers would set the still-standing career records for save percentage (.896) and goals-against average (0.87), while Barone graduated as--and is still--the all-time leader in saves (768) and saves per game (11.13), in addition to ranking second in percentage (.879) and shut-outs (25.5).

- Back in the spring, W&M had three freshmen named among the nation's top-50 recruits by MaxFieldHockey.com, one of just six schools in the entire country to achieve that feat.  Cassidy Goodwin (Gloucester, Va.), Snead, and Christie van de Kamp (Midlothian, Va.) were the selections, and later in the summer, teamed up under assistant coach Mark Egner at the Young Women's National Championships to roll to an undefeated national title in the U19 division.