at Milwaukee (Oct. 23 / 7pm CT; 8 Eastern): ESPN+ I Live Stats

MILWAUKEE, Wisc. - The IUPUI women's soccer team will face one of its toughest tests of the 2019 campaign on Wednesday night (Oct. 23) when the Jaguars take on Horizon League leader Milwaukee (13-1, 6-0 HL) at 7:00 p.m. Central (8 Eastern). The Jags are coming off a 1-0 overtime win over Cleveland State while Milwaukee is riding a 10-game winning streak and has won six league games by a 17-1 margin. 

MATCH INFO 

• Wednesday's match will kickoff at 7:00 p.m. Central (8 Eastern) at Milwaukee's Engelmann Stadium. The match will air on ESPN+ and live stats will begin right at kickoff. 

THE SERIES

• IUPUI is 0-2-1 all-time against Milwaukee with the three meetings coming since the Jags joined the Horizon League in 2017.
• IUPUI advanced on PK's after the two sides played to a scoreless draw in the championship match of the Horizon League Tournament, outlasting the Panthers 4-3. 
• Milwaukee won last year's contest, 1-0, in Indianapolis. 

JAG SCRATCHES

• IUPUI enters play at 10-5-1 and 4-2 in Horizon League play. The Jags have outscored foes by a 22-13 margin on the year and blanked eight foes. The Jags are 5-3 away from home on the year. 
• IUPUI's seven wins before Oct. 1 tied for the third most in program history. The 2017 squad, which won the Horizon League Tournament, had 10 wins heading into the month of October, while the 2009 squad, which won The Summit League Tournament, won eight matches prior to Oct. 1. The 2016 squad also won seven matches prior to Oct. 1 en route to a 9-7-3 finish. 
• IUPUI has two different freshmen tally multi-goal games this month as Maya Lacognato scored twice in the 3-0 win at Detroit Mercy (Oct. 6) and Autumn Weeks tallied twice in the 2-1 win over UIC (Oct. 2).  
• Freshman Maya Lacognato has tallied a team-high six goals on the year following Saturday's overtime tally against Cleveland State in the 95th minute. Lacognato has two overtime goals this season, having also done so in her collegiate debut against Toledo. 
• Junior Valentine Pursey has five goals and leads the Jaguars in assists (6), points (16), shot attempts (53) and game-winners (3). 
• Lipka earned her 20th career shutout against Cleveland State on Saturday (Oct. 19) and enters play one shy of tying Hall of Famer Jamie Farrell's career record of 21 clean sheets. She was named Horizon League Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 21.  
• Pursey earned Horizon League Offensive Player of the Week award on Sept. 16 after contributing to four of the Jaguars' six goals in 3-1 wins over Belmont and Valparaiso. Pursey had two assists in the Jaguars' 3-1 win over Belmont and followed with two goals in the win at Valpo, including the game-winner. 
• Redshirt freshman AP Woodall was named Horizon League Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 9, recording a 1.00 goals against average and .875 save percentage in the Jaguars' contests against EKU (Sept. 5) and Central Michigan (Sept. 8). She dialed up a scoreless half in the win over EKU and yielded her first goal of the year on a PK in the Jaguars' 2-1 loss at CMU, snapping her personal scoreless streak at 276 minutes to start her career.
• For the season, Woodall has allowed just three goals in 560 minutes, good for a 0.48 goals against average. 
• The win at Valparaiso was the 200th of the career of head coach Chris Johnson. Johnson has won 124 matches on the Jaguars' sidelines and collected 81 wins at UIndy from 1994-2002. Johnson is the program's all-time leader in wins (124) and has taken IUPUI to two NCAA Tournaments (2009 & 2017). 
• IUPUI is 3-1 this season against Missouri Valley Conference foes with road wins at SIU, Valpo and Evansville before losing at home to Illinois State.  
• Pursey has moved into sixth on the program's all-time list with 22 career goals, 12 of which have been game-winners. Her 12 career game-winners are second on the program's all-time list, three shy of tying the school record.  
• The Jaguars was picked to finish fourth in the Horizon League preseason polls
• Junior defender Natalie McNally has played a team-high 1,373 minutes in the defensive third this season, nearly 200 more than Pursey's 1,186, which ranks second on the team. McNally has played 93 percent of the team's minutes so far this season.
• The Jags return their top four scorers from a season ago in Elizabeth Bueckers (14 pts), Ricks (11), Pursey (10) and Emma Chambers (8).
• IUPUI returns 10 of 11 starters from last season, including the quintet of Lipka, Pursey, Chambers, McNally and Jenna Sterr, who started all 19 matches a season ago. 

SCOUTING MILWAUKEE

• Milwaukee has been dominant all season long, going 13-1 overall and outscoring opponents by a 36-8 margin. The Panthers have shutout eight opponents this season, including seven of their last eight foes. 
• Gaby Schwartz, Haley Johnson and Mackenzie Schill are tied with a team-high five goals while Schwartz has eight assists. The Panthers have five players with double-digit points and 15 different players with at least one point.  
• Elaina LaMacchia has played 826 of the team's 1281 minutes in goal, recording a perfect 9-0 record and 0.33 goals against average with a .906 save percentage. Her backup, Allie Strottman, has a 0.62 goals against average and .885 save percentage in her six appearances. 

HORIZON LEAGUE STANDINGS (as of 10/22/2019)

• 1. Milwaukee - 6-0 (18 pts)
• 2. Oakland - 4-1-1 (13 pts)
• t-3. IUPUI - 4-2 (12 pts)
• t-3. Wright State - 4-2 (12 pts)
• t-3. UIC - 4-2 (12 pts)
• 6. Cleveland State - 2-3-1 (7 pts)
• 7. Northern Kentucky - 2-4 (6 pts)
• 8. Green Bay - 1-4-1 (4 pts)
• 9. Youngstown State - 1-5 (3 pts)
• 10. Detroit Mercy - 0-5-1 (1 pt)

NEXT UP

• IUPUI will return home to host Wright State on Sunday (Oct. 27) at 1:00 p.m. at Carroll Stadium. That match will be broadcast on ESPN+.