The William & Mary field hockey team hosts Liberty on Sunday afternoon, looking to extend its current two-game winning streak.  The 1 p.m. match on Busch Field will be available on live stats through TribeAthletics.com.

Scouting the Tribe
W&M comes into the weekend at 3-4 overall and on a two-match win streak, after shutting out Richmond 3-0 last Friday and beating Davidson 3-2 in a penalty shoot-out on Sunday.  Junior Cammie Lloyd (Midlothian, Va.) leads the way for W&M offensively with 11 pts on five goals and one assists, while on defense, freshman Morgan Connor (Bedford, N.Y.) is the reigning CAA Rookie of the Week after improving her goalkeeping numbers to a 2.56 GAA and 39 saves on a .672 save percentage.

Scouting the Flames
Liberty enters the game at 2-5 overall this season, and winners of two in a row after downing Big East rivals Villanova and Quinnipiac by a combined score of 11-2.  The Barr sisters, Serena and Bethany, lead the statsheet with 12 pts (4g, 4a) for the former and 11 pts (3g, 5a) for the latter.  In goal, Allison Schaefer has played every minute with a 2.56 GAA and 43 saves on a .705 save percentage.

The Series
Although they scrimmage each other every season, this will only be the second official meeting between W&M and Liberty.  The first came in 2012, and was a 3-0 Tribe win in Lynchburg.

News and Notes
- 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.

- Connor was named the CAA Rookie of the Week, 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 for the last two weeks in a row, thanks to Connor and classmate Annie Snead (Midlothian, Va.) who was honored after a week with both a goal and an assist.

- Juniors Booter Ellis (Delmar, Del.) and Erin Menges (Richmond, Va.) both have a pair of defensive saves on the season so far, tied for 14th-most in the NCAA.  Those are the highest totals in the CAA this year, and as a team, W&M ranks seventh in the country.

- Estelle Hughes (Newcastle, NSW) scored her first career goal against Old Dominion on Sunday.

- Also scoring for the first time were sophomores Jenny McCann (Annandale, Va.) and Alayna Tomlinson (San Diego, Calif.), who each had goals against Georgetown.

- 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).

- In addition to Ellis, both Menges and Lloyd earned honorable mention spots on the CAA pre-season team.

- The Tribe returns 10 of its 11 defensive saves from a year ago, far and away the most in the Colonial Athletic Association.  In addition to Ellis' five field stops, fifth-year senior Maddy Moore (Norfolk, Va.) had three and Menges and Caroline Arrowood (Chesapeake, Va.) had one each.

- Both Moore and Pastor were elected captains for this season.

- 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.