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GAMEDAY INFORMATION
DePaul (2-2) at Purdue (2-1)
Thursday, Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. ET / BTN Plus on BTN2Go
Folk Field / West Lafayette, Indiana
All-Time Series: Purdue leads 6-0 / All-Time in West Lafayette: Purdue leads 3-0
Last Meeting: Purdue 4, DePaul 0 (2005 in West Lafayette)
Dayton (1-2) at Purdue
Sunday, Sept. 3 at 1 p.m. ET / BTN Plus on BTN2Go
Folk Field / West Lafayette, Indiana
All-Time Series: Dayton leads 3-0 / All-Time in West Lafayette: Dayton leads 1-0
Last Meeting: Dayton 3, Purdue 0 (2016 in Dayton)
Last Meeting in West Lafayette: Dayton 3, Purdue 1 (1998)
GAMEDAY PROMOTIONS
- Thursday: Boilermaker Athletic Council student-athlete pregame tailgate
- Sunday: Bring your dog to Pooches at the Pitch; Soccer camp reunion day
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue women's soccer closes out its six-game homestand by welcoming DePaul and Dayton to Folk Field for Labor Day Weekend action.
The Boilermakers take on DePaul on Thursday at 7 p.m. ET. Dayton will be the opponent for Sunday's 1 p.m. kickoff, which is Purdue's final home game until Sept. 28. Fans are invited to bring their dogs to Folk Field on Sunday for Pooches at the Pitch.
The Boilermakers are 6-0 all-time against DePaul, a mark that doubles as the program's longest active winning streak against any opponent. However, the two teams have not played since 2005. Purdue hosted Dayton for spring exhibition games inside the Mollenkopf Athletic Center in 2012 and 2014. The Flyers also won the 2011 Boilermaker Challenge Cup at Folk Field without having to play Purdue. However, the Boilermakers have not hosted UD for a regular-season game since the inaugural 1998 campaign.
Including its preseason win vs. Iowa State, Purdue enters the week 3-1 on its current six-game homestand.
PLAYING WITH THE LEAD
- Purdue has held the lead for 177 of the 270 minutes (66 percent) over the first three games, scoring in the first half of all three matches. Six different Boilermakers have already scored at least once; last season, only eight players recorded a goal.
- Sunday's win vs. Indiana State marked the ninth time since 2008 that at least four different Purdue players scored in a win. Hannah Mussallem and Andrea Petrina both recorded their first collegiate multi-goal games. It marked only the fifth time in program history that two players scored at least twice in the same game. Petrina has nine career goals at Folk Field, four coming in her last five games at the Boilermakers' home pitch dating back to the end of 2016.
HERMANN TROPHY SPOTLIGHT
- Both DePaul and Dayton feature a standout performer on the Hermann Trophy watch list. The Blue Demons' Alexa Ben was an All-American and the Big East Midfielder of the Year last year. She scored three goals last weekend as DePaul won the Loyola Invitational with wins over Akron (5-0) and Drexel (3-0). She was named the tournament MVP and Big East Offensive Player of the Week. Like Purdue's Maddy Williams, Ben (24 goals, 21 assists) has joined the 20-20 club for her career.
- Dayton's Alexis Kiehl scored 21 of her 34 career goals last season, five coming in the Atlantic-10 Tournament. The Flyers won the event as the No. 7 seed after posting shutout victories vs. Saint Louis, George Washington and Saint Joseph's over the course of four days. In the opening round of the NCAA Tournament, Kiehl scored again and Dayton held a brief 2-1 lead in the second half at Ohio State, but ended up losing 3-2 in Columbus. The Flyers were selected as the A-10's preseason favorite for the ninth consecutive year this fall.
MORE ABOUT THE BLUE DEMONS
- DePaul's first three games this season, including a preseason exhibition at Louisville, were against teams on Purdue's schedule. The Blue Demons were competitive but dropped both ends of their season-opening weekend vs. in-state rivals Northwestern (1-0 in Evanston) and Illinois (2-1 in Champaign). Though they stayed home last weekend while playing on Chicago's North Side at Loyola's tournament, DePaul's home opener is not until next Friday. Winners of 10 games last year, the Blue Demons were 5-1-1 at home but also found a way to win five true road games.
- DePaul had five players score at least six goals each last year, with that quintet accounting for 39 of the team's 45 goals. However, only Franny Cerny (9 goals, 6 assists) and Ben (7 goals, 3 assists) are back this fall. Cerny scored both of her goals this season in the Akron victory. Goalkeeper Lauren Frasca is also back after earning the starting job for the first time last season as a junior.
FACTS ABOUT THE FLYERS
- Dayton is led by first-year head coach Eric Golz, who coincidentally also replaced Drew Roff at Illinois State when Roff came to Purdue in December 2014. Roff and Golz both took the Redbirds to the second round of the NCAA Tournament in their final seasons at ISU.
- Dayton hosts Marshall Friday night before making the trip to West Lafayette. The Flyers lost games at East Carolina (3-2 in OT) and UNC Wilmington (2-0) during their season-opening road trip in the Carolinas. But like Purdue, they played well at home on Sunday in a 3-0 shutout win vs. Saint Francis. Kiehl scored on a penalty kick in the 85th minute Sunday for her first goal. She was the fifth different Flyer to score this year.
- Goalkeeper Kaelyn Johns and Micayla Livingston (2 goals, 6 assists) join Kiehl as UD's top returnees. Kiehl was the only Flyer to start every game last season and led the team in minutes. Juniors Nadia Pestell, Keagin Collie and Beth Kamphuas have all gone the distance over the first three games this year.