After having their weekend trip and games cancelled due to Hurricane Florence, the William & Mary field hockey team will get to make one of those games up on Wednesday, traveling to Wake Forest for a 3:30 p.m. match.  The game can be followed via live stats on TribeAthletics.com.

Scouting the Tribe
W&M is 3-2 on the year, and is on a three-game winning streak.  Redshirt-senior Estelle Hughes (Newcastle, NSW, Australia) was named the CAA Player of the Week on Sept. 11, after scoring four goals and an assist the previous weekend including a hat trick in the 4-3 double-overtime win against Brown.  She leads the CAA in goals and scoring, and junior Annie Snead (Midlothian, Va.) leads the conference in assists with four (0.8 per game).  In goal, junior Morgan Connor (Bedford, N.Y.) has started every game with a 2.86 GAA and 27 saves on a .659 save percentage.

Scouting the Demon Deacons
Wake Forest is 2-4 on the year, with wins over then-No. 5 Michigan 3-2 back in August, and a 4-3 win over Northeastern in their last game out.  The Demon Deacons also have losses to No. 10 Princeton (4-0), No. 13 Boston College (4-3, 2OT), No. 20 Iowa (2-1), and Penn (1-0, 2OT).  Julie Grashoff is the leading scorer with three goals and an assist, while Alexis Grippo also has seven points on two goals and three assists, including the game-winner in both victories.  On defense, Isla Bint has a 2.33 GAA and 18 saves, while Cat O'Connor has a 2.57 GAA and 19 saves.

The Series
- W&M is 5-8 all-time against Wake Forest, but the Demon Deacons have won the last six in a row in the series that dates to 1988.  W&M's last win was in the 1997 season, 1-0 at home, and the only-ever win in Winston-Salem was the first-ever meeting, 7-0 in October of 1988.  This will be the first time since 1998 that Wake is not ranked.

News and Notes
- With the cancellation of Sunday's match against Davidson, W&M is projected to finish the regular season with the fewest number of games played (16) since the 1989 season, which had 15 games before the South Atlantic Conference tournament.  W&M went 10-5 in those 15 games, and finished 12-6 after reaching the conference championship game.

- All five of the Tribe's matches this season have been won with four goals.  That's the longest streak in school history of games where the winning team scored four-plus goals since 2015 (W&M went 3-2), and the third-such time overall including the 1979 season, which started with a 5-0 streak for W&M en route to a fifth-place finish at the national championships.

- W&M's remarkable streak is also just the second time ever in school history that five-straight games have been won with the same number goals, joining a stretch in 1999 that were all won with three goals (W&M went 2-3).  That has never been a six-game stretch of either four-plus goals to win, nor six-straight won with the same score.

- The recent three-game winning streak has boosted the Tribe immensely in the national stats.  Estelle Hughes ranks fifth in the NCAA in points per game (2.80) and sixth in goals per game (1.2), while Annie Snead ranks seventh nationally in assists per game (0.80).

- In the team rankings, W&M ranks 12th in points per game, 13th in assists per game, and 15th in goals per game.  In all six categories, the Tribe leads the CAA, and also leads the league in winning percentage (0.600, 24th nationally).

- Hughes' hat trick against Brown was her first, and her fifth overall multi-goal game.  That's tied for the sixth-most in school history, and just one game behind what former teammates Emma MacLeod '18 and Cammie Lloyd '18 achieved.

- The hat trick also ties Hughes for 15th all-time at W&M in the single-game rankings, with the most goals since MacLeod scored four against Hofstra last fall.  In just five games this season, Hughes is already within one goal and two assists of tying her all-time season bests.

- Morgan Connor has made at least seven saves in three of her five appearances so far this year.

- Freshman goalkeeper Kimi Jones (Virginia Beach, Va.) made her first appearance for W&M against Brown, finishing the final 28 minutes and making a save in double-overtime to enable the Tribe to later score and win.

- Four players have scored their first career points so far this season, including two freshmen, a sophomore, and a senior.

- In the latest NFHCA National Poll, W&M had six opponents ranked.  Leading the way is Sunday's opponent, No. 2 Connecticut, as well as No. 4 Duke, No. 10 Virginia, No. 11 Old Dominion, No. 15 Delaware, and No. 22 Stanford.

- This year will mark the first time that the Tribe has ever played west of the Mississippi River.  W&M will head to California in October, facing Pacific on Oct. 13 and Stanford on Oct. 15.

- Over the summer, Christie van de Kamp (Midlothian, Va.) was named to the Team USA U21 Junior National Team for the second year in a row.

- Both van de Kamp and senior Jenny McCann (Annandale, Va.) will serve as team captains this season.