BLACKSBURG - The Virginia Tech women's soccer team has advanced to the second round of the 2018 NCAA Women's Soccer Championship for the sixth time in program history and the first time since the 2015 season. The Hokies will now face Arkansas on Friday afternoon in Cary, North Carolina. Match information, links and team information are below.
GAMEDAY INFORMATION
Friday, November 16 - 2 PM ET
Koka Booth Stadium, WakeMed Soccer Park; Cary, North Carolina
Virginia Tech Hokies (10-7-3, 5-5-0 ACC, 8th) vs. Arkansas Razorbacks (14-4-4, 6-3-1 SEC, T-3rd)
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Virginia Tech Head Coach: Chugger Adair
Record at the school: 105-47-18 (8th season)
Career record: same
How advanced?: A 1-0 victory at No. 17 Texas
Arkansas Head Coach: Colby Hale
Record at school: 82-56-16 (7th season)
Career record: same
How advanced?: A 5-1 home win over Little Rock
Arkansas website: Click here
Series: First meeting
Versus SEC: Tech leads 7-6-2 (more page 2 of game notes)
vs. Alabama 0-1-0 vs. Mississippi State 1-0-0
vs. Arkansas 0-0-0 vs. Missouri 0-1-0
vs. Georgia 1-0-1 vs. Tennessee 1-1-1
vs. Kentucky 0-1-0 vs. Texas A&M 1-2-0
vs. LSU 2-0-0 vs. Vanderbilt 1-0-0
Live Stats: Click here
Broadcast: ACC Network Extra; Link: Click here
NCAA Championship Second Round Notes for the Hokies (link to Game Notes pdf packet)
Hokies advance to second round of NCAA Championship with victory at No. 17 Texas
- Tech made the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship for the 10th time in program history and improved to 11-9-1 alltime in the tournament after posting a 1-0 victory over No. 17 Texas in the first round last Friday (11/9). Texas was unbeaten at home this season (10-0) entering the contest.
- The team improved to 10-7-3 on the season with the victory, reaching double digits for wins in a single season for the 11th time in school history and the seventh time under Head Coach Chugger Adair.
- Tech advanced to the second round for the sixth time in program history and the first since 2015.
- The Hokies were one of six teams (of 32) to win an opening-round game on the road and one of two that knocked off a nationally-seeded team - the Longhorns were the No. 4 seed in the quadrant.
- The victory was just the third true road win in the NCAA tournament (3-5 overall) for the Hokies and the sixth all-time victory away from Blacksburg. Tech's last win was over Georgetown (4-3 in overtime) in University Park, Pennsylvania in 2014, while their last road win was at No. 9 West Virginia (1-0) in 2011.
Tech lands three Hokies on 2018 ACC All-Conference teams
- The 2018 Women's Soccer ACC All-Conference teams feature 40 conference student-athletes and included three Virginia Tech Hokies – Mandy McGlynn, a First Team selection, Kelsey Irwin, a Third Team choice, and Emily Gray, who made the All-Freshman Team.
- McGlynn, Tech's goalkeeper who was named to the 2018 preseason All-ACC team, turned in her best single season while playing for the Hokies in her career. McGlynn is just the fourth Tech player to ever be named All-ACC First Team, joining Jazmine Reeves (2013), Ashley Meier (2015) and Murielle Tiernan, who was a three-time honoree from 2014-16, and McGlynn is the first goalkeeper so honored.
- Irwin earned her first postseason accolade and became just the second defender for the Hokies to make an All-ACC team. Jordan Coburn was a three-time All-ACC Third Team defender (2013-15).
- Gray became the 13th Hokie to be named to the ACC All-Freshman Team, but the first since 2014 (Madi Conyers). Gray led the Hokies with five assists during the 2018 season and also added a pair of goals for nine points, second most on the team to classmate Karlie Johnson's 12.
In 2018 Tech games, scoring first is critical
- This season in Tech matches, only once did the team that scored the day's first goal not go on to win the match, and that was then-No. 22 Georgetown, which resulted in a 1-1 draw back on Aug. 19.
- Since then, the team that scored the contest's first goal is 17-0, with the Hokies holding an 10-0 record while the opponents are 7-0, with one double overtime 0-0 tie in the mix (Sept. 2 at Georgia).
- In fact, once the first goal has been scored, the team with the lead has never relinquished it - and has actually gone on to register a shutout in 12 of those contests, with Tech earning seven of them.
- In all, Tech and its opponents have combined for 17 shutouts this year (Tech 9, Opp 8), which ties for the most ever (2011, Tech 11, Opp 6) who played 23 matches that season.
- The good news, when the Hokies score a goal, they are 10-1-1 this year.
- Lastly, when reaching the half in a scoreless tie, the Hokies are 3-1-2 and overall, they are 3-1-3 when the match is tied at the break.