The William & Mary field hockey team hits the road this weekend to go up against two state rivals.  On Friday, the Tribe heads to No. 17 James Madison for a 6 p.m. start, before taking on VCU Sunday at 1 p.m.  Live stats for both matches, as well as live video of field hockey, are available through TribeAthletics.com.

Scouting the Tribe
W&M is 6-8 overall and 3-1 in the Colonial Athletic Association, beating Drexel last weekend along with losses to No. 10 Virginia and No. 17 Wake Forest.  Seven athletes have at least seven points on the year, led by junior Cammie Lloyd (Midlothian, Va.) who has 11 goals and four assists.  Her classmate Erin Menges (Richmonds, Va.) has two goals, five assists, and a conference-leading four defensive saves.  In goal, freshman Morgan Connor (Bedford, N.Y.) has a 2.33 GAA and 73 saves on a .682 save percentage.

Scouting the Dukes
JMU is 11-3 on the year and 3-1 in the CAA, rising to No. 17 in the national polls after winning five in a row.  Miranda Rigg leads the team offensively with 16 goals, while Hannah Hall has eight goals and eight assists.  Sara Kraeutler has played all but a single half this season, carrying a 1.99 GAA to go with 54 saves on a .667 save percentage.

Scouting the Rams
VCU enters the weekend at 5-9 overall, and will play Richmond on Friday before facing the Tribe.  Emily McNamara has 10 goals and seven assists on the season, while on defense, Chessa Kownurko has a 2.93 GAA and 94 saves.

The Series
- W&M is 20-37-6 all-time against James Madison, with seven wins all-time in Harrisonburg.  One of those wins was the last match-up, a 4-3 overtime victorry in 2014.
- The Tribe leads VCU 42-9 in the all-time series, with each team swapping wins in the last four meetings.  The Tribe won the last match-up, 2-1 last year at home.

News and Notes
- The winner of the W&M-JMU game will have second-place all alone, and lock in a bid to the CAA Tournament.

- Junior Emma MacLeod (Richmond, Va.) was named the CAA Player of the Week on Oct. 18, after leading W&M with three goals in the previous week.  That included a tally against No. 10 Virginia, and both goals in the Tribe's 2-1 win over Drexel.

- W&M has now won five CAA weekly awards this season, the most-ever in a single year.

- The last time W&M finished conference play with one or fewer conference losses was the 7-0 season in 2004.

- 2004 was also the last time the Tribe was seeded first or second in the CAA Tournament.

- 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 won the CAA Rookie of the Week award three times in 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).

- Junior Booter Ellis (Delmar, Del.) 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.