The William & Mary field hockey team hits the road again this weekend for a pair of matches up in Pennsylvania.  On Friday, Oct. 18, the Tribe will be in Philadelphia for a key conference match-up against Drexel at 6 p.m., while on Sunday W&M heads out to Easton, Pa., to face Patriot League power Lafayette at 12 p.m.  Links to live stats and live video for both matches can be found on TribeAthletics.com.

Friday Live Stats
Friday Live Video

Sunday Live Stats
Sunday Live Video

Scouting the Tribe
W&M is riding a four-game winning streak, and is 7-5 overall including a perfect 2-0 mark in the Colonial Athletic Association.  Leading the way offensively is the senior class, with captain Christie van de Kamp (Midlothian, Va.) scoring 14 points on five goals and four assists.  Her co-captain Annie Snead (Midlothian, Va.) has 12 points on three goals and six assists, and fellow senior Woodard Hooper (Williamsburg, Va.) also has 12 points, on five goals and two assists.  Defensively, sophomore Kimi Jones (Virginia Beach, Va.) has the majority of minutes in goal with a 2.05 GAA and 34 saves on a 0.667 percentage, while senior Morgan Connor (Bedford, N.Y.) has also played significant minutes, with 1.72 GAA and 15 saves on a 0.682 percentage.

Scouting the Dragons
Drexel is 3-9 overall and 1-1 in the CAA, splitting 1-0 decisions with Hofstra and James Madison.  Puk Thewessen leads the Dragons with four goals and four assists, while Avery Powell also has four goals and Tess Bernheimer five assists.  In goal, Megan Hadfield has the majority of minutes and a 1.88 GAA, making 30 saves on a 0.667 percentage.  Alexis Sokach has also played a significant amount, with a 3.08 GAA and 20 saves on a 0.606 percentage.

Scouting the Leopards
Lafayette is 8-5 overall and 3-0 in the patriot league, and winners of five in a row including 1-0 in overtime against Temple last weekend.  Molly McAndrew is the top scorer with seven goals and two assists, while Lisa van der Geest has four goals and six assists and Felicitas Hannes and Sam Di Maio have scored five goals each.  On defense, Sarah Park has played every minute in goal with a 1.42 GAA and 51 saves, on a 0.718 save percentage.  The Leopards will play Lehigh on Friday before taking on the Tribe.

The Series
- W&M and Drexel will be meeting for the 20th time overall, with the Tribe holding an 11-8 advantage in the series.  W&M has won the last three in a row, including on an overtime penalty stroke by van de Kamp last year in Williamsburg.  Neither team has won by more than two goals since 2010.

- This will be the first trip to Easton, Pa., for W&M since the 1991 season, and the fifth meeting all-time between the two schools.  The Tribe leads the series 3-1, and beat the Leopards 4-1 in Williamsburg early last season.

News and Notes
- At Davidson, Snead picked up her 26th career assist to pass Emma Clifton '15 as W&M's all-time assists maker.

- W&M's current four-game winning streak is tied for the seventh-longest active streak in the nation.

- The Tribe leads the nation with 84.2% (16 of 19) of field players who have seen action this year having scored either a goal or an assist.  Only two other teams, Michigan (15 of 18, 83.3%) and Providence (13 of 16, 81.3%), have over 80% scoring, and only two other teams (Maryland, with 22 total players, and Saint Joseph's, with 24) have had more players in absolute terms score a point with 17 each.

- Van de Kamp and Snead (as an alternate) were both picked to represent W&M at the Victory Sports Tours/NFHCA Senior Game this week.  W&M's two picks were the most since 2005, and ranked the Tribe as one of just 11 teams in the nation to have two players chosen.

- W&M has scored four or more goals in each of its last four games, the second-longest streak in program history.  The Tribe had a streak of five-such games back in the 1979 season, and also had four-straight in the 2000 season.

- With the win over Hofstra, W&M currently has a five-game winning streak over conference opponents dating back to last season.  This is just the eighth conference winning-streak of 5+ games in program history, and the first since the 2004 team went 7-0 during the course of the season.  The school record streak is eight games in a row, back in 1989.  After losing the first conference game of the season to Old Dominion, the Tribe won the final six games in the regular season and two in the tournament before facing the top-ranked Monarchs in the championship game again.

- Snead was named the CAA Player of the Week on Oct. 9, after scoring three goals and three assists in wins over James Madison and Georgetown.  That included a career-best six points, two goals and two assists, in the Tribe's 7-2 win over the Hoyas.

- 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 129-1-1 (0.989) in games in which it scores at least five goals.  The Tribe has won 118 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 leads all teams so far in 2019.  Both Stanford and Villanova have also scored three penalty strokes, with the Cardinal leading all schools by taking five attempts.

- 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 22-10 (0.688) in games decided by one or two goals.  That includes an 11-7 mark (.611) in one-goal games, and 11-3 (.786) in two-goal games.

- Six of W&M's opponents appear in the latest NFHCA rankings, including four in the top-11.  North Carolina remains at No. 1, with Duke and Louisville at Nos. 4-5.  Delaware is ranked No. 11, Old Dominion No. 19, and Monmouth at No. 23.

- Hooper scored the game-winner against Georgetown, her 11th career game-winner.  That ranks her third among active players in Division I, behind only Michigan senior Meg Dowthwaite (with 16) and Stanford junior Corinne Zanolli (13).  Hooper also ranks tied for fourth all-time at W&M in game-winning goals, and is tied for 12th in school history with 28 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 (Richmond, Va.) was named honorable-mention as well.

- Head coach Tess Ellis is in her 24th season at W&M and seventh as head coach, with a 63-65 career record (24-14 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.