LORETTO, PA. – The Red Flash Water Polo team will look to bounce back and get into the win column as they travel north to face teams such as Brown, Michigan, and the hosting school Harvard. The Red Flash have lost two games in a row, and this will be the second time Saint Francis has faced these three teams this season. This will be the last weekend of regular season competition with the CWPA Championships taking place in just two weeks at Bucknell University.
Location: Blodgett Pool (Cambridge, MA.)
Game 1: Saint Francis vs. #22 Brown
Date and Time: Saturday, April 9th – 1:30 p.m.
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Game 2: Saint Francis vs. #19 Harvard
Date and Time: Sunday, April 10th – 9:00 a.m.
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Game 3: Saint Francis vs. #7 Michigan
Date and Time: Sunday, April 10th – 3:00 p.m.
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SCOUTING THE BEARS
Brown comes into the final regular season weekend with a 21-10 overall record and a 5-2 mark in the CWPA. On offense, Zoe King leads the way for the Bears with a team-leading 56 goals and 89 points. Claire Pisani is second on the team with 51 goals and a team-high 94 exclusions drawn this season. In net, senior Marley Preisado leads the way with 159 saves for the Bears.
This will be the second time this season that these two teams have met with the first meeting being a 7-3 loss for the Red Flash on February 26th.
Abbie Carter,
Addison Williams, and
Kayla Rhoads all recorded goals in that contest for Saint Francis. Goalie
Isabel Lumley tallied 15 saves in that first meeting to lead the Red Flash.
SCOUTING THE CRIMSON
The Red Flash will then face off against the Harvard Crimson for the second time during the 2022 season. The Crimson come into the weekend with a 17-5 overall record and a 5-2 mark in conference play. Harvard is led on offense by Brooke Hourigan who has a career-high six goals scored in one game this season and one of the more consistent scorers for the Crimson. Junior goalie Zoe Banks has solidified herself as one of the top defenders in the conference winning CWPA Defensive Player of the Week three separate times this season.
The last time these two teams played each other was on February 26th when Harvard was able to defeat Saint Francis 11-4. Junior
Abbie Carter had her first multi-goal game of the season to lead the Red Flash with two goals in that contest. Freshman
Kimberly Frostad and
Addison Williams notched the other two goals for Saint Francis in that meeting.
SCOUTING THE WOLVERINES
The Red Flash go up against one of the top teams in the country in the Michigan Wolverines who come to Massachusetts with a 20-8 overall record and a 12-0 record in the CWPA. Michigan is led by graduate student Maddie O'Reilly who has a team-leading 56 goals and 104 points for the Wolverines. Junior Alex Brown leads the Wolverines in net with 156 saves and 11 steals as one of the top goalies in the CWPA.
Michigan faced off against the Red Flash on March 6th in Ann Arbor this season and were able to defeat Saint Francis 19-1. This will be the last game for both teams until the CWPA Championships begin in two weeks.
THE RED FLASH
Saint Francis comes into this weekend series after falling to Mount St. Mary's 12-10 two weekends ago at the Stokes Natatorium. The Red Flash will look to be a more healthy group going into this weekend with multiple players coming back from injury as they head to Harvard. Juniors
Abbie Carter and
Addison Williams have had the most success against these upcoming three teams with a combined seven goals in the previous matchups from this season. Goalie
Isabel Lumley looks to continue improving against top competition and add onto her already solid first season with Saint Francis. The Red Flash will look to pick up momentum and possibly move up in the CWPA rankings before the final seeds are determined for the CWPA Championships in two weeks.
