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Clarksville, TN – After a three-match homestand, the Austin Peay State College (APSU) soccer staff hits the street for a Thursday 7:00pm match in opposition to Central Arkansas at Invoice Stephens Monitor and Soccer Complicated in Conway, Arkansas.

Austin Peay (2-4-3, 0-1 ASUN) dropped a 2-1 determination in opposition to Lipscomb in its inaugural ASUN Convention match, Sunday, whereas Central Arkansas (2-5-2, 0-1-1 ASUN) fell to Jap Kentucky, 3-2, the identical afternoon.

Alec Baumgardt netted the Governors’ first ASUN Convention purpose off the opening kickoff of the second half in opposition to the Bisons. The Federal Means, Washington native is tied with Anna McPhie for a team-best two targets this season.
 
Goalkeeper Chloé Dion has performed all 810 minutes between the pipes for Austin Peay State College this season. The Mirabel, Quebec native enters Thursday’s match with 95-career saves and is 4 saves from passing Brooke Abrahams (2004-07) for eighth all-time. 
 
Dion’s .756 save share this season is also the perfect of her profession and has elevated her profession save share to .742 – the eighth-best mark in program historical past.
 
Saturday’s match is the primary contest between Austin Peay State College and UCA, it is also the fourth time in program historical past that the Govs have traveled to the Pure State. 

About Central Arkansas

2022 File: 2-5-2 (0-1-1, ASUN)
2021 File: 9-9 (6-3, ASUN)

2021 Season End result: After incomes the No. 2 seed within the 2021 ASUN Girls’s Soccer Championship, Central Arkansas fell to No. 3 Kennesaw State, 4-3, within the match’s quarterfinals

Notable Returners: A 2021 First Group All-ASUN choice and Preseason All-ASUN Group recipient, graduate scholar defender Gracie Hair returns to the Bears’ lineup in 2022. Hair helped lead UCA to seven shutouts, together with 5 in convention play, in 2021. This season, Hair has scored one purpose on 11 photographs, whereas UCA has earned one shutout.

All-Time Sequence: First Assembly
Final Assembly: N/A

Extra to notice: Central Aransas is the second of seven first-time opponents for APSU this season. The Govs performed to a scoreless draw in opposition to Idaho State, on August twenty sixth, in its solely earlier first-time matchup this season.

The Govs six remaining first-time conferences are all ASUN Convention opponents and embrace Bellarmine (September Twenty ninth), Jacksonville, (October sixth), North Florida (October ninth), Stetson (October thirteenth), and Queens (October twenty second)

Fast Kicks

The Governors hit the street for the primary time in ASUN Convention play with Thursday’s match in opposition to Central Arkansas. 

Thursday’s match is the primary time the Governors and Bears have confronted each other. 

The Governors dropped a 2-1 determination to Lipscomb in its inaugural ASUN Convention match, on September seventeenth, in Clarksville. 

Anna McPhie and Alec Baumgardt lead the Governors with two targets. 

Baumgardt scored APSU’s first-ever purpose in ASUN Convention play on the second half’s opening kickoff in opposition to Lipscomb. 

Tori Case and Haley Patterson are tied for a team-best two assists. 

Lindsey McMahon has began each match of her collegiate profession at APSU. Her 26-straight begins are essentially the most on the staff. 

5 Govs — McPhie (15), Patterson (15), Niederhauser (12), Baumgardt (12), Ellie Dreas (10) — have tallied double-digit shot totals this season. 

McPhie, Patterson, Baumgardt, and Annabel Anderson’s 4 photographs on purpose are tied for a team-best mark. 

After tallying the game-winning purpose within the nonconference finale in opposition to Alabama A&M, on September eleventh, Olivia Prock entered the beginning lineup for the primary time this season within the ASUN opener in opposition to Lipscomb. 

Lindsey McMahon has performed 796 of 810 minutes this season, trailing solely goalkeeper Chloé Dion who has performed all 810 minutes between the pipes this season. 

Dion has had a profession yr for APSU this season. The Mirabel, Quebec native is second within the ASUN with 4 shutouts and third in targets in opposition to common (1.11) and goalkeeper minutes performed (810). 

Dion corralled her Ninety fifth-career save within the convention opener. She is 4 saves from passing Brooke Abrahams (2004-07) for eighth all-time in saves. 

Austin Peay State College was picked thirteenth within the Preseason ASUN Coaches Ballot and didn’t have a consultant on the preseason staff. 

Central Arkansas was picked sixth within the preseason coaches ballot and had one student-athlete — senior defenseman Gracie Hair — named to the Preseason All-ASUN Group. 

The Govs’ 10 newcomers are comprised of six freshmen and 4 transfers. These transfers convey a mixed 9 seasons of expertise and 93 matches performed.

Observe The APSU Govs

For information and updates all through the Governors’ 2022 and inaugural ASUN season, observe the soccer staff on Twitter and Instagram (@GovsWSOC) and on Fb (Austin Peay Girls’s Soccer).

Subsequent Up For APSU Soccer

The Austin Peay State College soccer staff faces North Alabama in a Sunday 1:00pm match in opposition to North Alabama in Florence Alabama earlier than kicking off a season-long four-match homestand, September Twenty ninth-October ninth.