BUIES CREEK, N.C. -- After dropping its regular season-opener
Friday, the Campbell women's soccer team will look to get back on
track as they travel to face High Point in a 7 p.m. kick-off Monday
at Vert Stadium.
The Camels (0-1) were unable to overcome two first-half goals from
Western Carolina on Friday, and lost 2-1 after senior Kaili
Terry converted a late penalty.
High Point (1-0) beat Francis Marion 1-0 Friday in its season and
home-opener. Freshman Becca Hemby's 49th minute header
off a free kick pushed the Panthers past the Patriots.
Monday's contest will mark the fourth meeting between Campbell and
High Point. The Camels have won all three matches in the series,
including a 1-0 triumph in Buies Creek in 2009.
Despite finishing the 2009 campaign 7-15-2, the Panthers went on to
win the Big South tournament championship for the second time in
the last three years.
High Point was picked to finish fourth in the annual Big South
coaches' preseason poll announced on Tuesday. High Point returns
thirteen letter winners, including sophomore Janay Whittaker, who
was named to the All-Big South second team as a freshman in
2009.
Second-year head coach Marty Beall signed two transfers and ten
freshman recruits to round out the 2010 roster.
Campbell returns ten starters from a 2009 campaign that marked
fifth-year head coach Todd
Clark's most successful in Buies Creek. Campbell compiled a
9-9-2 record and rode a tight defense and timely scoring to its
first Atlantic Sun Championship tournament berth since 2005.
Eight of CU's nine victories came by one-goal margins, including
league wins over Lipscomb, Florida Gulf Coast, East Tennessee State
and USC Upstate. Midfielder Marisa
Muller was named to the Atlantic Sun Conference second team and
defender Jeannie
Borda was an A-Sun All-Freshmen honoree.
