The William & Mary field hockey team returns home this weekend, hosting No. 2 Connecticut on Sunday at 12 p.m.  The game can be followed via live stats on TribeAthletics.com.

Scouting the Tribe
W&M is 3-3 on the year,a fter falling on the road at Wake Forest on Wednesday.  Senior Estelle Hughes (Newcastle, NSW, Australia) continues to lead the team and the CAA with six goals and 14 points, while junior Annie Snead (Midlothian, Va.) is tops in the league with four assists.  In goal, junior Morgan Connor (Bedford, N.Y.) has 27 saves and a 3.2 GAA starting every match, while freshman Kimi Jones (Virginia Beach, Va.) has a 1.55 GAA in just 90 minutes and four saves.

Scouting the Huskies
UCONN is a perfect 7-0 on the year with wins over four ranked teams, and hasn't lost since the 2016 NCAA Semifinals.  The defending national champions and winners of three of the last five NCAA titles, Connecticut has six players with 10+ points already this season, including Cecile Pieper with seven goals and five assists, Svea Boker, with six goals and five assists, and Antonia Tiedtke, who has eight assists to go with one goal.  On defense, Cheyenne Sprecher has played the vast majority of minutes, with a 0.88 GAA and 19 saves in 480 minutes.  The Huskies will play at No. 11 Old Dominion on Friday night before coming to Williamsburg on Sunday.

The Series
UCONN leads the all-time series 7-1-2, with W&M's lone win in the stretch coming in the very first match-up, 2-1 at home back in the 1980 season.  This will be the sixth time that the teams have met in Williamsburg, and the first time they have played at all since the 2000 season.

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 six 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, and the longest-ever streak where the winning score has been the same exact number of goals.

- The recent three-game winning streak has boosted the Tribe immensely in the national stats.  Entering the week, 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 six appearances so far this year.

- Freshman goalkeeper Kimi Jones 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.