The No. 19-ranked William & Mary field hockey team closes the regular season on Friday night, hosting No. 15 James Madison for Senior Night.  The game will tip off at Busch Field at 6 p.m., following a brief recognition ceremony for the Tribe's nine-member senior class.

Senior Night/Costume Night
In addition to the senior recognition for the Tribe, Friday's game will also include several treats ahead of Halloween.  The first 100 fans will receive a free "Tribe Pride" t-shirt, and everyone who attends the game dressed up in their Halloween costume will receive free candy.  In addition to those two promotions, college students who attend and participate in the halftime costume contest will have the chance to win a free smart TV!

Scouting the Tribe
W&M enters the final game of the regular season at 12-5 overall and 4-1 in the Colonial Athletic Association, after splitting last weekend with a loss to then-No. 11 Delaware and a shutout of Drexel on the road.  Seniors Cammie Lloyd (Midlothian, Va.) and Emma MacLeod (Richmond, Va.) are tied for the team lead and among the conference leaders with 24 points each, both with 10 goals and four assists.  On defense, sophomore goalkeeper Morgan Connor (Bedford, N.Y.) has a 1.69 GAA and 75 saves on a .735 save percentage, and her numbers improve to a CAA-best 1.02 GAA and .773 save percentage with 17 stops in conference play.  Senior captain Erin Menges (Richmond, Va.) is third nationally and leads the CAA with a career-best six defensive saves this season.

Scouting the Dukes
JMU swept Northeastern and Hofstra last weekend to improve to 10-5 overall and 3-1 in the CAA, and will face Towson Saturday in their final game of the regular season.  The high-powered Dukes attack is led by Miranda Rigg with 27 points (11g,5a), while Lisa Lejeune (9g,3a) and Hannah Hall (5g,10a) are also focal points of the offense.  On defense, Sara Kraeutler is returning from a two-week absence to resume her spot in goal, and has a 1.42 GAA and 41 saves on a .759 save percentage in 640 minutes, while Kyler Zampiello (1.70 GAA, 24 saves, .774 percentage) has played 287 minutes and Caitlin Nelson 151 minutes (1.86 GAA, six saves, .600 percentage).

The Series
The JMU series is the most-played rivalry in W&M field hockey history, with the teams meeting 65 times since the 1973 season.  The Dukes lead the series 38-21-6, but the Tribe has won three of the last five, including a 4-3 overtime win last year in Harrisonburg.  The Dukes rebounded from that loss to beat W&M 2-0 in the CAA Semifinals, and W&M's last home win in the series came back in 2013, another 4-3 win in regulation.  Overall, JMU leads in Williamsburg, 9-14-3, and leads in regular-season conference games, 19-12-1.

A Look at the CAA
With one weekend to go in the regular season, the CAA tournament field is almost set.  No. 7 Delaware (4-0), No. 15 James Madison (3-1), and No. 19 William & Mary (4-1) have all locked up bids, leaving one spot still open for Northeastern (2-2), Hofstra (1-3), or Drexel (1-3).  The regular season champion hosts the top four teams Nov. 3-5, with Delaware only needing one win against either Northeastern or Hofstra to clinch the No. 1 seed.  For the Tribe, the scenarios are as follows:

No. 1 Seed (1/6 chance, 16.7%) - W&M's only path to the top seed and hosting requires both a Tribe win vs. James Madison, and Delaware to lose to both Northeastern and Hofstra.
No. 2 Seed (1/3 chance, 33.3%) - A W&M win over James Madison and Delaware wins either one or both games.
No. 3 Seed (1/2 chance, 50%) - A W&M loss to James Madison.

News and Notes
- The Tribe has won four CAA Weekly Awards so far this season.  Sophomore Woodard Hooper (Reston, Va.) was named the Player of the Week on Sept. 12, and Emma MacLeod won back-to-back Player of the Week awards on Sept. 26 and Oct. 3.  Freshman Melanie Strik (Den Haag, The Netherlands) added the most recent award on Oct. 17, when she won Rookie of the Week accolades.

- The Tribe's 3-2 win at ODU on Oct. 15 was the first road win for W&M in the series since 1977.  The Tribe also scored three goals against the Lady Monarchs for the first time since 2009, and just the third time (also in 1980) since a 4-0 win in the 1979 season.

- Emma MacLeod was named to the NFHCA Senior Game, one of just 38 players nationally to be chosen for the all-star event on Saturday, Nov. 18.  She's one of just three players from the CAA to be asked to attend, alongside Northeastern's Jamie Bartucca and JMU's Hannah Hall.

- W&M started the CAA season 3-0 for the first time since 2005, and just the third time ever.  The Tribe started perfect in 2004, going on to win the regular season at 7-0.

- The Tribe's 12 wins already this season are the most since the 2004 team won 13 games.  The overall school record is 18 wins in a season, by the 1979 team, while the most wins in the NCAA era came in 1990, when the Tribe won 16 games.

- MacLeod tied the school record by scoring four goals in the game against Hofstra, the first hat trick by a Tribe player since 2015.  A W&M player has scored four goals in a game 12 timres since 1974, most recently (before MacLeod) in 2012 when Christine Johnson '13 had four against Davidson.

- Woodard Hooper is tied for the CAA lead with four game-winning goals this season, which is also the most in a single year by a W&M player since 2006.

- W&M's 8-0 win over La Salle broke the school record for points in a game, with 24 (8g,8a).  The previous record was 23 points (9g,5a) set in 1990 against Lehigh.  The game also saw W&M's second-most assists ever (8), t-3rd-most goals (8), and t-8th-most shots (40).

- W&M has had a player score two assists in a game eight times already this season, including back-to-back games against Old Dominion and Davidson by sophomore Cassidy Goodwin (Gloucester, Va.).  That is tied for 10th-most in a single game in school history, along with double-helpers by Estelle Hughes (Newcastle, NSW), MacLeod, Annie Snead (Midlothian, Va.) and Menges against La Salle, Christie van de Kamp (Midlothian, Va.) against Pacific, and Booter Ellis (Delmar, Del.) against Fairfield.

- In addition to Connor, Meredith Clay (Charlotte, N.C.) and Jessica Wiggins (Williamsburg, Va.) have both seen time in goal this season.  This is only the fifth year that W&M has had three or more goalkeepers see playing time, joining 2013, 2012, 1998, and 1995.

- W&M's No. 18 ranking in Weeks 2, 3, 5, and 7 are the highest for the Tribe since reaching No. 17 midway through the 2006 season.  Since 1993, the highest W&M has been ranked in the coaches poll was ninth, in the second poll of the 2000 season.

- Four of the Tribe's five losses have come against top-11 ranked teams.

- The W&M defense made three defensive saves in the loss to Boston College, its best total since making four against Old Dominion back in 2005.  Cassidy Goodwin made two stops and Katherine Hull (Fredericksburg, Va.) one, all to preserve what was then a 0-0 deadlock.

- Connor made 14 saves against Boston College, beating her previous career high by three saves.  That was the most saves in a single game by a Tribe goalkeeper since the 2009 season, and combined with the three defensive saves, W&M's 17 total stops were the most for a single game since 2002.

- With both UC Davis and Pacific on the schedule, this the first year since 1985 that W&M will play multiple West Coast teams in the same year.  Back then, it was San Jose State (who no longer has a team) and Stanford who had the honors.  Currently, there are only four West Coast field hockey teams in the NCAA - UC Davis, Pacific, Stanford, and California.

- Tribe players had an outstanding summer on the Team USA circuit, with six players being invited to the YWNC, and five of those earning an invitation onwards to the Team USA selection camps.  Erin Menges was named to the National Developmental Squad, while Christie van de Kamp was chosen for the U21 National Team and Annie Snead was named an alternate to the U21 team as well.

- At the conclusion of spring training, the team selected Erin Menges and Katelyn Rennyson (Centreville, Va.) as team captains.

Record Watch
- Morgan Connor: T-6th Season Wins (12), 7th Career Wins (21), 10th Career Saves Per Game (4.67), 11th Career Minutes Played (2483), T-11th Career Games Started in Goal (35), 13th Career Saves (168), 13th Career Games Played in Goal (36)
- Booter Ellis: 6th Career Games Started (72), T-10th Career Defensive Saves (9), T-16th Career Assists Made (13)
- Woodard Hooper: T-10th Season Game-Winning Goals (4)
- Estelle Hughes: T-13th Career Assists Per Game (0.22), 15th Career Points Per Game (0.88)
- Cammie Lloyd: 8th Season Shots Per Game (4.94), 9th Season Shots Attempted (84), T-12th Season Penalty Stroke Attempts (1), 4th Career Shots Per Game (3.16), T-5th Career Penalty Strokes Made (2), T-5th Career Penalty Stroke Attempts (3), 7th Career Goals Per Game (0.54), 8th Career Shots Attempted (193), T-8th Career Points Scored (76), T-8th Career Game-Winning Goals (6), 9th Career Points Per Game (1.25), 10th Career Goals Scored (33)
- Emma MacLeod: 11th Career Goals Scored (29), 12th Career Goals Per Game (0.39), T-13th Career Game-Winning Goals (5), 14th Career Points Scored (64), 15th Career Games Started (64), 16th Career Points Per Game (0.86)
- Erin Menges: T-10th Season Defensive Saves (6), T-4th Career Defensive Saves (12), 6th Career Assists Per Game (0.26), T-7th Career Assists Made (18), T-10th Career Games Started (67)
- Annie Snead: 15th Career Assists Per Game (0.22)
- Team: 6th Points Scored (136), 1st Points Per Game (8.0), T-9th Goals Scored (49), 4th Goals Per Game (2.88), T-11th Game-Winning Goals (12), 3rd Assists Made (38), 2nd Assists Per Game (2.24), 10th Shots Made (311), 5th Shots Per Game (18.29), T-13th Defensive Saves (11), T-11th Wins in a Season (12)