The William & Mary field hockey team will host two more matches this weekend at Busch Field, wrapping up an early four-game homestand.  The Tribe hosts Brown on Friday night, Sept. 7, at 6 p.m., before taking on VCU on Sunday at 1 p.m.  Both matches can be followed via live stats on TribeAthletics.com.

Scouting the Tribe
W&M is 1-2 on the year, after splitting a pair last weekend.  The Tribe lost a thrilling 4-3 overtime matchup with Old Dominion on Friday, before downing Lafayette 4-1 on Sunday.  Junior Annie Snead (Midlothian, Va.) is tied for the team lead with five points, including a CAA-best and top-15-ranked nationally three assists.  Redshirt-senior Estelle Hughes (Newcastle, NSW, Australia) also has five points, scoring two goals and an assist in the win over Lafayette, and junior Woodard Hooper (Reston, Va.) is closed behind with two goals, including the game-winner against Lafayette.  On defense, junior Morgan Connor (Bedford, N.Y.) has made 20 saves in the first three games to surpass 200 in her career.

Scouting the Bears
Brown is 1-1 on the year, defeating Bryant 3-1 before falling 1-0 to Providence last weekend.  All three goals were scored by different players, and Rachel Lanouette leads the team with a pair of assists.  In goal, Katie Hammaker has a 1.02 GAA and nine saves for an .818 save percentage.

Scouting the Rams
VCU enters the weekend at 1-2 overall, with a 2-1 win over Bryant and overtime losses to Hofstra (3-2 in penalty shootout) and American (double-overtime).  The Rams' Emily McNamara has four goals to lead the way this season, while in goal, Sasha Elliott has a 2.11 GAA and four saves on just 13 shots against her.

The Series
- W&M has never faced Brown in field hockey before this week, but the Tribe is 21-13-1 (.614) against the Ivies, with a winning record against all but Princeton.  After Friday, the only Ivy league team W&M hasn't faced yet will be Cornell.  The most recent meeting with an Ivy-league team was last year, a 3-0 win over Columbia.
- VCU is one of W&M's most frequent opponents, as the former CAA-rivals are meeting for the 53rd time since the early 1970s.  The Tribe boasts a 43-9 advantage in the series, which was last played in 2016, but the teams are an even 3-3 in this decade.  W&M won each of the last two meetings, 2-1 in 2015 and 5-4 in 2016.

News and Notes
- Brown head coach Jill Reeve was an assistant for W&M in 2000 and 2001, helping the Tribe to its first NCAA appearance.

- Annie Snead's two assists against ODU are tied for the 10th-most in a single game in school history.

- Freshman Cara Menges (Richmond, Va.) was the first member of the rookie class to score this season, with an assist on Christie van de Kamp's (Midlothian, Va.) goal against Old Dominion that sent the game into overtime with no time left on the clock.

- Estelle Hughes scored her fourth multi-goal game of her career on Sunday against Lafayette.  She's the ninth player since the late 1970s to have four or more games of 2+ goals in her career.

- Morgan Connor surpassed 200 saves in her career this weekend, and ranks 10th in school history with 202 saves.  She also ranks seventh all-time with 23 wins, just 13 shy of the school record.

- Seven W&M opponents are ranked in the latest NFHCA Top-25, led by No. 1 UConn.  The Tribe has, or will, also play No. 4 Duke, No. 8 Virginia, No. 12 Delaware, No. 18 Wake Forest No. 20 Stanford, No. 21 Old Dominion.

- 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 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.