The William & Mary field hockey team, winners of four of the last five, look to continue its hot streak this weekend with two more games.  The Tribe hosts Colonial Athletic Association-foe Hofstra on Friday, Oct. 11, at 6 p.m., before hitting the road to face Davidson on Sunday at noon.  Live stats for both games are available through TribeAthletics.com, and Sunday's game at Davidson can be streamed live with a subscription to ESPN+.

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Scouting the Tribe
W&M is 5-5 overall and 1-0 in the CAA, after an offensive explosion last weekend that beat James Madison, 5-2 and downed Georgetown, 7-2.  Senior captain Annie Snead (Midlothian, Va.) was named the CAA Player of the Week after scoring three goals and three assists in those two contests, and for the season is tied for second on the team with sophomore captain Cara Menges (Richmond, Va.), each with three goals and four assists for 10 points.  Senior captain Christie van de Kamp (Midlothian, Va.) is the team's leading scorer with 11 points, on four goals and three assists, and senior Woodard Hooper (Williamsburg, Va.) is also tied for the team lead in goals with four, two of them game-winners.  On defense, sophomore Kimi Jones (Virginia Beach, Va.) has played the majority of minutes in goal with a 2.28 GAA and 32 saves on a 0.667 save percentage, while senior Morgan Connor (Bedford, N.Y.) has a 1.81 GAA and 14 saves on a 0.700 save percentage in just under 200 minutes played.

Scouting the Pride
Hofstra is 5-6 on the year, and 0-1 in league play after falling to Drexel, 1-0 last weekend and beating Merrimack, 4-0.  Like the Tribe, the Pride had a rough start to the year, but have won five of their last seven matches.  Cami Larsson is the team's leading scorer with six goals and an assist, while Madison Warfel has five goals and an assist.  In goal, rookie Melijn van der Vegt has a 1.83 GAA and 52 saves on a 0.754 save percentage.

Scouting the Wildcats
Davidson enters the weekend at 2-10 and 0-4 in the Atlantic 10, falling to VCU 3-1 before rebounding to defeat Towson, 3-2, last weekend.  McGee Roman leads the team offensively with four goals and two assists, while Julia Smith (2g,2a) and Valerie Hajek (2g,1a) have also scored multiple goals.  On defense, Sarah Zeszotarski has played the vast majority of minutes in goal, with a 2.47 GAA and 78 saves on a 0.722 percentage.

The Series
- W&M leads the series with Hofstra 14-7, dating back to 1939.  The Tribe has won six of the last seven and three in a row over the Pride, including a 5-0 win in Williamsburg in 2017 and a 1-0 victory last season on the road.

- Against Davidson, the Tribe is 13-2 all-time, and has won the last two match-ups before last year's game was wiped-out due to a hurricane.  W&M won 5-2 at home in 2017, and the last time in North Carolina, back in 2016, the Tribe won 3-2 in a shoot-out.

News and Notes
- With her three assists over the weekend, Snead now has 24 career helpers, second-most in school history.  Only Emma Clifton '15, who scored 25 assists between 2011-14, has totaled more.  Snead also ranks third in assists per game with 0.348, behind Clifton (0.357) and Victoria Saunders '98 (0.350).

- W&M has scored 12 goals in the last two games, tied for the 11th-most in any consecutive games in school history.  The record for two games is 15 goals scored in 1927, a 9-4 win over Longwood on Nov. 19 and 6-2 win at George Washington on Nov. 23.

- The most goals scored in any three game stretch is 18, set twice during the playing career of legendary head coach Peel Hawthorne '80.  In 1976, W&M beat Maryland 4-2 on Oct. 13, before back-to-back 7-0 shutouts of Kentucky (Oct. 15) and Old Dominion (Oct. 19).  In her senior season of 1979, the Tribe beat the Richmond Club 5-1 on Sept. 23, and followed with wins over VCU (5-0 on Sept. 25) and Longwood (8-1 on Oct. 3).

- A win over Hofstra on Friday would give W&M a five-game winning streak over conference opponents for just the eighth time ever.  The Tribe closed 2018 with a win over JMU in the regular season before beating Northeastern and Delaware in the conference tournament, and then began conference play this fall with a 5-2 win over James Madison last weekend.

- The last time W&M won five or more in a row against conference teams was 2004, when the Tribe won the regular season with a perfect 7-0 mark.

- The record-long conference winning streak is eight, in 1989.  After falling to ODU 3-0 in the first conference game of the season, W&M then won the next six in the regular season and its quarterfinal and semifinal match-ups in the South Atlantic Conference Tournament, before meeting the top-ranked Lady Monarchs again in the finals.

- W&M is 7-10 all-time in games played on Oct. 11, and 11-4-1 on Oct. 13.

- Freshman Lily Saunders (Mount Joy, Pa.) was named the CAA Rookie of the Week on Oct. 2, after scoring the Tribe's first goal against Vermont.  That sparked W&M on to score three unanswered for its second win in a row.  Saunders' goal was the first of her career, and the first for a freshman this season.

- W&M is 128-1-1 (0.988) in games in which it scores at least five goals.  The Tribe has won 117 in a row in those games, dating back to the 1945 season.

- Van de Kamp's three penalty strokes made not only leads all players in the NCAA this season, but is also more than any other team has made total through last weekend.  Only Maryland (4) and Columbia (4) have taken more penalty stroke attempts on the year so far.

- Junior Haley Hopkins (Springfield, Va.) scored the winning goal against both Monmouth and Vermont, which were her first two collegiate goals.

- Since the start of the 2017 season, W&M is 21-10 (0.677) in games decided by one or two goals.  That includes an 11-7 mark (.611) in one-goal games, and 10-3 (.769) in two-goal games.

- Six of W&M's opponents appear in the latest NFHCA rankings, including four in the top-10.  North Carolina remains at No. 1, with Duke and Louisville at Nos. 4-5.  Delaware is ranked No. 10, Old Dominion No. 22, and Monmouth re-entered the rankings at No. 25 after a week's absence.

- Hooper scored the game-winner against Georgetown, her 11th career game-winner.  That ranks her tied for second among active players in Division I, behind only Michigan senior Meg Dowthwaite (with 15) alongside Stanford junior Corinne Zanolli.  Hooper also ranks tied for fourth all-time at W&M in game-winning goals, and is 14th in school history with 27 career goals so far.

- This year marks the first time that W&M has ever been picked as the pre-season favorite in the CAA.

- Senior captain Christie van de Kamp is the first player in the roughly decade-long pre-season CAA voting to be named the Pre-Season Player of the Year for W&M.  She was joined on the pre-season all-conference team by fellow seniors Annie Snead, Cassidy Goodwin (Gloucester, Va.), and Woodard Hooper.  Sophomore Cara Menges was named honorable-mention as well.

- Only three players from the CAA's top-10 in assists in 2018 return this year, all from W&M - all three were voted team captains this year.  Senior Annie Snead had 12 helpers to break the school record that had stood since 1979, and classmate Christie van de Kamp had nine assists, becoming just the second player since 1990 to score eight goals and nine assists in a single year.  Sophomore Cara Menges added in six assists along with her three goals, to earn CAA All-Rookie honors.

- Head coach Tess Ellis is in her 24th season at W&M and seventh as head coach, with a 61-65 career record (23-14 in CAA games).

- Sophomore Kimi Jones is the reigning Colonial Athletic Association and VaSID State Rookie of the Year, after going 10-3 with 58 saves and a 1.96 GAA as a freshman in 2018.

- Freshman Amber Bode (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) is just the third player from Illinois to ever play for W&M, and the first to do so since Jackie Adams in 1943.

- Another freshman, Tabby Billingham (Dallinghoo, Suffolk, England) is the third Englishwoman in team history, and the first to hail from Suffolk.  She joins her teammate junior Caitlin MacLean (Devizes, Wiltshire, England), as well as Jill Tester (Brighton, Sussex, England) who played as an exchange grad student in 1952.