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Women's Soccer Heads to Elon for Friday Clash

BUIES CREEK, N.C. - After blanking High Point 1-0 Monday, the Campbell women's soccer team will finish the second half its road trip when they square off with Elon Friday in an 8 p.m. kick-off at Rudd Field.

Freshman Pirjo Leppikangas scored her first career goal off a Kaili Terry free kick and keeper Jamie Panfil made three saves to record her seventh career shutout for Campbell (1-1) in Monday's victory over High Point.

"Facing Elon will be a real challenge," said head coach Todd Clark. "They're very well-coached and have already played a difficult opponent. The game is part of the school's orientation activities, so it'll be a hostile environment, and we've got to put our kids in those situations for us to be successful. It will be a very difficult game."

Elon (0-1) enters Friday's match after dropping a 2-1 contest with 15th-ranked Virginia Tech last Friday.

The Phoenix return seven starters from a side that finished the 2009 campaign with a 12-5-2 record, its winningest record since joining the Division I ranks. Third-year head coach Chris Neal added ten freshmen in his 2010 recruiting class.

Elon was picked to finish fifth in the preseason Southern Conference coaches' poll released last week. Sophomore defender Claire O'Keefe was named to the 2010 preseason all-conference team.

The two teams have met on eight previous occasions, with Elon owning a 6-2 record against the Camels. Elon won a 2-1 overtime affair in the teams' last meeting in 2007.

Terry, who scored in the season-opener, leads the Camels with three points through the first two games. She joins defenders Jeannie Borda, Taylor Brown, Ashley Wagner, and keeper Jamie Panfil as the only Camels to have played the full 90 minutes in each of CU's first two games.

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