FORT MYERS, Fla.- The road to the 2026 ASUN Championship runs through Fort Myers and Sunday, the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles have a chance to make sure that is all the way through to the end as they host the Jacksonville Dolphins in the semifinals in a 1 p.m. kick from Pickering Field. 

It will be the third matchup of the season between the Eagles (10-2-5) and Dolphins (7-7-4) with FGCU sweeping the regular season series between the two. Keira Morgan led the Eagles to a 3-2 win in their date in Fort Myers, recording her first career brace for FGCU. Two weeks ago in the River City it was a much different contest, with the game going scoreless into the 79^th minute when Lexi Bennett broke the stalemate with her third of the season to give the Eagles a 1-0 victory. Sunday will be the first postseason meeting between the two since the spring 2021 season and their first ASUN semifinal date since 2017 when Cassidy Morgan, sister of current Eagle Megan Morgan, scored the game winner for the Blue and Green. 

The Eagles enter the ASUN Tournament as the No. 1 seed after claiming their 13^th ASUN Regular Season Championship this season with a 7-1-2 mark in league action. The Eagles have gotten it done on both sides of the pitch this season, leading the ASUN with 32 goals scored while also pitching eight shutouts, including clean sheets in three of their last four games heading into the postseason. FGCU is 19-3-5 all-time in the ASUN Tournament, claiming eight tournament championships. 

There was a heavy dose of Blue and Green on the All-ASUN teams released earlier this week as FGCU led both the on the field selections with five, and the Academic All-ASUN team with eight. Keira Morgan picked up ASUN Player of the Year honors, Sarah Greiner was named the ASUN Defensive Player of the Year, Kaitlin Gabelman picked up ASUN Freshman of the Year honors, and Jim Blankenship was named the league's Coach of the Year for the seventh time in his career. 

Jacksonville earned their way to the semifinals with a 2-1 upset win over West Florida in the first round Thursday at Pickering Field. It marked the first time since the 2012 and 2013 seasons that the Dolphins earned a postseason win in back-to-back seasons. 

Despite getting shutout in five of their first six games of the season, the Dolphins rebounded to be the second highest scoring team in the ASUN behind FGCU with 28 goals on the year. It is a balanced attack for JU who has 14 different goal scorers on the year which is most of any team in the ASUN. The issues have come on the back end for the Dolphins as they have conceded 29 goals on the year which is most of any team participating in the ASUN Tournament, while their .685 save percentage as a team is the lowest in the league. 

The game is set for a 1 p.m. kick from Pickering Field in Fort Myers and will be streamed live on ESPN+. 

If FGCU wins, they will host the winner of Sunday's North Florida/Lipscomb semifinal on Friday at Pickering Field for the Championship, while a JU upset would assure the Dolphins were home, at least geographically, for the final Friday, either hosting Lipscomb, or traveling crosstown to take on North Florida in Jacksonville. 

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