SPARTANBURG, S.C. –  The FGCU women's soccer team (8-3, 1-0 Atlantic Sun) hits the road for the last time in the regular season this weekend when it travels to USC Upstate (2-7-1, 0-0-1 A-Sun) on Friday (Oct. 3) and Kennesaw State (3-7-1, 0-1-0 A-Sun) on Sunday (Oct. 5). The Eagles began their quest for a fifth-consecutive A-Sun regular season championship in emphatic form when they defeated UNF (2-9, 0-1 A-Sun) last Friday, 3-0. Originally scheduled to be played at 7 p.m., the match will now be played at 6 p.m. due to potentially inclement weather in the area.

LAST TIME OUT
Playing in overtime for the first time this season, it took sophomore Tabby Tindell just 2:10 to score her second goal of the game and provide the game-winning score to lift the FGCU to a 3-2 victory over the La Salle Explorers (4-4-2) in Philadelphia on Sunday afternoon.

Paulina Speckmaier got the scoring started for FGCU with her fifth of the season and it was Tindell who matched a pair of La Salle equalizers for the 26th and 27th goals of her career (11th and 12th of the season) to re-establish her program record lead. Shannen Wacker who scored twice in the Eagles' 3-0 win over North Florida last Friday, added a pair of assists on Sunday while Melissa Arnold and Ashley Parks contributed helpers as well.

USC UPSTATE
FGCU took down the Spartans at home last season on senior day by a score of 7-0. Upstate would fail to reach the A-Sun Tournament after posting a 1-7-1 mark in A-Sun play and a 4-11-3 record overall. So far this season Upstate is 2-7-1 with victories over South Carolina State and VMI. Kenzie Major has accounted for all five Spartan goals this season with four coming in the 4-0 victory over South Carolina State. The Spartans began A-Sun play with a tie opposite Northern Kentucky (4-3-3, 0-0-1 A-Sun), 0-0, on Sept. 28.

KENNESAW STATE
The Eagles battled KSU to a scoreless tie on the road last season and the Owls finished 2014 with a 9-9-1 overall record and a 5-3-1 mark in the A-Sun. This season KSU is off to a 3-7-1 start with wins over South Alabama, Austin Peay and Samford. Maggie Gaughn has paced the offense with five goals which are second only to Tindell in the A-Sun standings while Marit Sandtroeen has added a pair. The Owls were shutout at Lipscomb (7-4-1, 1-0-0 A-Sun) in their A-Sun debut, 3-0.

NATIONAL RANKS
1 - Game-Winning Goals – Tabby Tindell (6)
3 – Points – Tabby Tindell (28)
3 – Points Per Game – Tabby Tindell (2.55)
T3 – Goals – Tabby Tindell (12)
T4 – Goals Per Game – Tabby Tindell (1.091)
T9 – Assists – Shannen Wacker (8)

TABBY TINDELL
Tindell has been named the A-Sun Player of the Week three times this season and for an A-Sun record six times in her career en route to breaking the FGCU career goals record in just her 29th career game two weeks ago.

With 27 goals and eight assists (62 points) in her career Tindell now ranks third on the all-time points list behind only Lindsay Haw (68 points) and Wacker (70 points) after becoming the fourth individual to reach the 50-point plateau with two goals opposite Wofford and the third to reach 60 points with a pair of goals opposite UNF. She is also tied with Wacker and Haw for the most game-winning goals of all-time with 10.

With 12 goals already this season, Tindell is just three scores shy of matching her own single-season record of 15 and has already matched her debut season total of four helpers. She leads the A-Sun with those 12 goals and has a comfortable lead with 28 points. The next closest individual is Wacker (16 pts) with Speckmaier close behind (14 pts). The first non-FGCU player on the A-Sun points list is Macy Hamblin of Northern Kentucky (12 pts).

There has been no sophomore slump for Tindell who put together one of, if not the greatest individual seasons in program history in just her first year suiting up for the Green and Blue. She established single-season program records in points (34), goals (15), goals per game (0.75), shots (71), shots per game (3.55), shots on goal (44) and shots on goal per game (2.20) and is well on her way to challenging those marks again.

Twice this season Tindell has been named the TopDrawerSoccer.com National Team of the Week which recognizes the top performances of players nationwide. Individuals from national powers, Notre Dame, Tennessee, Arizona State, Wisconsin, Duke, UCLA, Florida, Penn State, Boston College, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Kansas and Georgia are all represented on the list alongside Tindell. Check out the full Team of the Week here.

SHANNEN WACKER
For the third time in her career and first time this season Wacker was named the A-Sun Player of the Week, as announced by the conference office on Monday afternoon. The senior collected a pair of goals in Friday's 3-0 win at North Florida and handed out two assists in the Eagles' 3-2 overtime win at La Salle on Sunday.

With her first assist at La Salle Wacker became the new FGCU all-time points leader and is now the first player in program history to reach the 70-point plateau. The senior has contributed 25 goals and 20 assists in her career. Her 25 goals rank second all-time behind Tindell and her 20 helpers are third in the program record book.

Wacker's game-winning goal at North Florida was the 10th of her career, tying her for most all-time with Lindsay Haw and Tindell. She has now scored multiple goals in a game five times and her eight assists this season rank in a tie for fifth most in a single-season are not only a single-season career-high but match her total from the previous two seasons combined while her 16 points are only three shy of her 2013 total. Her assist total leads the A-Sun and she is second behind Tindell in points.

TOUGH SCHEDULE
The Eagles finished 2013 with the No. 67 RPI in the nation and the 2014 schedule has featured seven teams that finished ranked inside the top 83, three of which were ranked 15th or better. Those seven team include Arizona (83), Miami (73), La Salle (63), USF (53), Texas A&M (15), South Carolina (14) and UCF (13). FGCU is currently No. 63 in the RPI report while opponents Texas A&M (4) and South Carolina (13) each rank inside the top 15. Arizona checks in at No. 38 while La Salle and USF are 58 and 73, respectively. The closest A-Sun foe to FGCU is Jacksonville who checks in at No. 118.

NEXT UP
FGCU will look forward to five-straight at home to close the 2014 regular season beginning with Northern Kentucky on Friday, Oct. 10. NKU was 6-10-2 last season but have yet to score a goal against FGCU. The Eagles are 2-0 all-time against the Norse and have outscored them 8-0. The Norse are 4-3-3 this season and tied USC Upstate, 1-1, in its A-Sun opener. NKU can boast victories over Eastern Illinois, IUPUI, Robert Morris and Francis Marion. Macy Hamblin leads the team with five goals and 12 points while Kelsey Laumann has contributed two goals and a team-high six assists.

Lipscomb will visit the FGCU Soccer Complex next on Oct. 12. The Bisons were one of FGCU's two ties in A-Sun play last season, both of which came on the road. The Eagles have never lost to Lipscomb. The Bisons have collected seven wins to date and are 1-0-0 with a win over Kennesaw State to begin A-Sun play. 2013 All-Conference selection Ellen Lundy paces the offense with four goals and one assist for a team best nine points while 11 others have contributed goals to the cause.

JIM BLANKENSHIP
A veteran of nearly two decades in collegiate coaching, head coach Jim Blankenship, who was named the 2012 and 2013 A-Sun Coach of the Year, has built FGCU women's soccer into a yearly contender in the Atlantic Sun Conference and a rising program in the South Region in just eight seasons. Blankenship started the program in 2007 and has since guided the Eagles to seven straight double-digit win seasons, culminating with Atlantic Sun Regular Season Championships in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. In 2011 and 2012 he also led the Eagles to back-to-back A-Sun tournament championships and became the first team in the history of the university to make it to the NCAA Tournament. Blankenship has guided FGCU to a 92-35-17 overall record over the first eight seasons of the program's existence, including a 48-9-9 mark in the A-Sun.

#WINGSUP
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FOLLOW ALONG
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TICKETS
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