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DETROIT -- The Titans have played two home games this year and will play a seventh contest away from Titan Field this Sunday. The women's soccer squad will head to Richmond, KY to face the Eastern Kentucky Colonels of the Ohio Valley Conference Sunday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. Live stats will be available to follow the game online.
Detroit (5-2-1) is coming off a 6-0 defeat of Madonna Thursday. Five different Titans scored in that affair and as a team, Detroit held an 18-1 shooting advantage with Madonna's lone shot coming on a free kick from 20 yards out.
Heading into games this weekend, Detroit leads the Horizon League in goals scored with 28 and also a league-best 46 corner kicks. On the other side of the field, the Titans are tied with Wright State and Loyola allowing just four goals in eight games while Detroit has a conference-best five shutouts. The Titans scored 31 goals in 18 regular season contests in the 2010 campaign.
Individually,
Abby McCollum (La Salle, MI/Monroe) has 14 points placing her first on the team and second in the league, two behind Sarah Hagen of Milwaukee. McCollum's eight assists also lead the conference.
Alyssa Riley's (Whitby, ON/Father Leo J. Austin) 11 points on the season, five goals with an assist good for second on the team, is one of 12 Titans who have scored for Detroit this year. Goaltender
Emily Oberheim (Springfield, VA/Lee) is atop the league in goals against average (0.22), save percentage (.947), and is second in shutouts with three in five games this season.
Eastern Kentucky sits at 2-4-1 overall and is undefeated in three of its last four contests. The Colonels have posted a 2-1-1 record over that stretch after starting the year winless in four contests (0-3-1). EKU last played Friday evening falling by a 4-0 score as they hosted Marshall. Prior to that, the Colonels played on Sept. 4 finishing with a 1-1 draw against Gardner-Webb in a contest that was delayed over an hour at halftime by inclement weather and, eventually, suspended by lightning at the end of regulation. No overtime was played as the game was called at the end of regulation due to lightning. EKU also won 4-0 over UNC Asheville and 2-1 over Miami (OH).
These two squads have met three previous times with the Colonels victorious in all three meetings. Last year, EKU travelled to Detroit and left Titan Field with a 2-1 victory as a late first half goal from the Colonels held up as the winner. McCollum scored in the second half for Detroit and the Titans as a team outshot EKU by a 12-1 margin but it was not enough to top the Colonels.
After the match with Eastern Kentucky, the Titans will play at Michigan State this Wednesday before opening the Horizon League portion of the schedule. Last year's semifinal opponent Butler will travel to Detroit for a Sunday afternoon affair set for 1:00 p.m.