LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Bellarmine field hockey team will not have to travel far for their next road game. In fact, it will be on the turf where they play their home games as they are set to take on Louisville at 5 p.m. ET this Tuesday at Trager Stadium. The Knights then host Mid-American Conference foe Kent State at Trager at 3 p.m. ET on Friday.
 
Bellarmine (2-9, 2-2 MAC) last Friday earned their second straight road conference win in a shootout at Ohio after a scoreless 80 minutes of regulation and a pair of overtimes. The Bobcats outshot the Knights 21-1 and held a 10-2 advantage in penalty corners, but Bellarmine was still able to earn their first shootout win since 2007.
 
The Knights, however, followed their dramatic win with a 1-0 loss to Queens in a neutral site match on Saturday, also at Ohio, despite outshooting the Royals 17-8 and having 11 penalty corner chances to Queens' seven.
 
About Louisville
Louisville (5-5, 0-2 ACC) is coming off a 2-0 loss to No. 7 Wake Forest on Friday in their conference home opener. Before dropping their ACC opener in a shootout at Stanford on September 26, the Cardinals had won back-to-back matches against top-20 opponents—first beating No. 14 Ohio State 3-2 at home and handling No. 15 Saint Joseph's 2-0 on the road. Those wins came after back-to-back losses against top-20 opponents—first falling 2-1 in overtime to No. 1 Northwestern and then 5-1 in regulation to No. 15 Iowa, both at Trager.
 
The Cardinals' offense, ranked 38th in the country in scoring average at 2.31 goals per 60 minutes, goes through Ryle Wollerton. The senior forward leads UofL with both her seven goals and four assists, to give her 18 points—eight more than junior back Annabel Sep. Wollerton is tied for 32nd in Division I averaging 0.70 goals per game. In the cage for the Cards is Emily Young. The redshirt sophomore ranks 67th nationally with her .653 save percentage.
 
The Knights are 1-17-3 all-time against their neighbors, though they have not met in the regular season since Bellarmine made the jump to Division I for the 2020 (spring 2021) campaign. In fact, it has been nearly 9,900 days since the programs played each other in non-exhibition/scrimmage competition. The Cardinals took the last match against the Knights 9-0 on September 19, 1999. That game was played at the since-demolished Cardinal Stadium at the fairgrounds. Bellarmine's one win in the series was a 2-0 double-overtime victory at UofL on October 20, 1987 in just the third game between the programs.
 
About Kent State
Kent State (2-8, 1-3 MAC) fell 3-2 in overtime on Sunday to Longwood, the team Bellarmine earned their first win of the season on September 28. The Golden Flashes earned a 10-1 win in their season opener over reclassifying Mercyhurst (No. 82 out of 83 in the RPI) before losing seven in a row in a skid that included matchups against top-20 opponents Ohio State, Iowa, Penn State and Massachusetts. Their slide ended with a 1-0 overtime conference win over Ball State on September 28 on a golden goal by Emma Rolston.
 
A senior forward, Rolston leads KSU with 13 points and six goals. Junior forward Maybritt Duwel is one goal shy of matching her for the team lead. Senior forward Emma Seger, a Louisville native and Assumption product, and senior middie Maia Sarrabayrouse are tied for the team lead with four helpers. Goalkeeping duties have been split with Allison Wood earning nine of 10 starts and roughly 70 percent of the minutes overall. A senior UMass transfer in her third year in Kent, Wood ranks 75th in D1 with her .606 save percentage.
 
Bellarmine will be looking for their first win over Kent State after dropping their first six contests. The Knights fell 3-2 to the Golden Flashes last October in Kent. The since-departed Bente Moormann registered her first career multi-goal game for Bellarmine while Lauren Conroy scored twice and Eva Usoz scored once for Kent State.
 
Knights Knotes

• Luna Tuncay leads the team with two goals, one of which was the game winner on September 29 at Longwood. Two of the sophomore middie's three career goals have been game winners.
• Madison Patton against Longwood joined fellow freshman Cami Paris as Knights to register their first career goals this season (Paris doing so vs. Davidson). Last year, five Knights netted career goal No. 1.
• Brooke Buchanan leads the team with three assists, all on penalty corner insertions.
• Kailey Workman has 316 career saves. She passed Breanna McWhorter (308 saves) for second place on the Knights' all-time saves list during her shutout effort on October 3 at Ohio.
• Two Knights, Skylar Sokal and Annie Malloy, have recorded defensive saves this season. Sokal led the team last season with three.

 
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