Match 12: North Dakota State (5-6-0, 1-1-0 Summit League) at Omaha (3-8-1, 1-0-1 Summit League)
Friday, Oct. 10, 2014 | 7 p.m.
Caniglia Field | Omaha, Neb.
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Match 13: North Dakota State at South Dakota
Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014 | 1 p.m.
USD Soccer Field | Vermillion, S.D.
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This Week in NDSU Soccer:
 
Bison Continue Summit League Play at Omaha, South Dakota this Week
        The North Dakota State women's soccer team will continue Summit League play Friday, Oct. 10, at Omaha, and Sunday, Oct. 12, at South Dakota. Friday's match against the Omaha Mavericks is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. while Sunday's tilt with the Coyotes of South Dakota is slated to start at 1 p.m.
 
The Series against Omaha
Friday's Summit League contest at Omaha will mark the ninth meeting between the Bison and the Mavs in the all-time series ... The Bison lead the series, 5-3-0 ... Last season NDSU defeated the Mavs in Fargo, 2-1, in overtime on Lauren Miller's 98th-minute goal ... The Bison are a perfect 3-0 against Omaha since joining NCAA Division I in 2004 ... The last NDSU loss in the series was back in 2002, when the Bison fell to the Mavs, 3-0, in Omaha.
 
The Series against South Dakota
Sunday's match at South Dakota will mark the 10th meeting between the Bison and the Coyotes in the all-time series ... NDSU leads the series, 8-1-0 ... Last season NDSU defeated USD in Fargo, 1-0, in overtime on Lauren Miller's 94th-minute strike ... NDSU's only loss to the Yotes came during the 2012 season when the Bison fell at South Dakota, 3-2.
 
About Omaha
The Omaha Mavericks enter the week at 3-8-1 overall and 1-0-1 in Summit League action after knocking off the Denver Pioneers, 3-2, in double overtime on Sunday, Oct. 5, in Denver, Colo. ... The Mavs are 2-1-0 at home, 1-6-1 on the road and 0-1-0 at neutral sites this season ... Chelsi Rohloff, the reigning Summit League Offensive Player of the Week, leads UNO in goals (8), points (18), shots (32), shots on goal (19) and game-winning goals (2). Rohloff also has two assists on the season. Anna Sibson, Lydia Holtmann and Courtney Neville lead the team in assists with three each ... Rohloff leads The Summit League in goals and points ... Omaha goalkeeper Haley Shelton has played and started in nine matches, making 51 saves while allowing 18 goals for a goals-against average (GAA) of 1.88. Shelton is 2-6-1 in goal with one shutout. She has played 859:30 minutes between the pipes ... As a team, the Mavs average 1.42 goals per game, but give up 2.00 per game. Omaha is outshot by its opponents, on average, 17.2 to 10.9 ... Omaha leads The Summit League in fouls (152), offsides (50) and yellow cards (10).

About South Dakota
South Dakota enters the week with an overall record of 8-4-1 and a Summit League tally of 1-0-1 after defeating Fort Wayne at home Sunday, Oct. 5, 1-0 ... The Coyotes will travel to Oral Roberts for a league match on Friday before hosting the Bison in Vermillion Sunday ... USD is 4-2-1 at home, 3-2-0 on the road and 1-0-0 at neutral sites this season ... Offensively, South Dakota is led by Taylor Nivala, who leads the team in goals (8), points (17), shots (32) and shots on goal (17). Nivala also has one assist on the season. Corey Strang and Lauren Bennett lead the team in assists with four each ... USD goalkeeper Mackenzie Viktor has started all 13 matches, compiling a GAA of 0.99 with 36 saves and 11 goals allowed. Viktor is 7-4-1 in goal with three shutouts. She has played 1002:42 minutes between the posts ... As a team, South Dakota averages 2.62 goals per game while limiting its opponents to only 0.85 per game. The Coyotes are outshooting their adversaries, on average, 16.8 to 9.7 ... South Dakota leads The Summit League in shots (219), points (101), goals (34), assists (33), GAA (0.83), shutouts (7) and corner kicks (55). The Yotes are tied for the league lead with the Bison in goals allowed with 11.
 
Catching Up with the Bison
The Bison enter the week at 5-6-0 overall and 1-1-0 in Summit League competition after defeating IUPUI Sunday, Oct. 5, 1-0, to snap a six-match losing streak ... Sophomore Amy Yang netted the game-winning goal for NDSU in the 77th-minute off an Anisha Kinnarath assist. It was Yang's first collegiate goal and Kinnarath's fourth assist ... The Bison are led offensively by Lauren Miller, who has seven goals for 14 total points. Lizzie Lukas has three goals for six points while Yang, Sam Verbeke and Tiana Khamvongsa each have one goal ... Yang and Kinnarath are tied for the team lead in assists with four each, while Khamvongsa and Mikayla Jacobson have one apiece ... Miller leads The Summit League in game-winning goals with three ... NDSU goalkeeper Sierra Bonham has made all 11 starts in goal for NDSU and has compiled a record of 5-6-0 with two shutouts. She has given up 11 goals while making 41 saves in 962:13 minutes for a GAA average of 1.03 ... As a team, the Bison average 1.36 goals per game while holding their opponents to 1.00 per game. NDSU is outshooting its opponents, on average, 12.2 to 11.8 and has taken 41 corner kicks compared to 44 from its opponents ... NDSU with South Dakota for the league lead in goals allowed with 11.
 
NDSU Tabbed Third in Summit League Preseason Poll
        The North Dakota State University women's soccer team was picked to finish third in The Summit League's preseason poll. Reigning league champion Denver was selected as the preseason favorite in a vote of the league's nine head coaches. South Dakota State was second followed by the Bison at third. Oral Roberts was fourth followed by Western Illinois at fifth and Fort Wayne at sixth. IUPUI, Omaha and South Dakota rounded out the poll at seventh, eighth and ninth.
 
Head Coach Mark Cook
           Mark Cook is entering his third season at the helm of the North Dakota State soccer program after being named head coach on Jan. 25, 2012.  He is the fourth head coach in the 17-year history of the program.
        Last season, Cook led NDSU to an overall record of 9-10 and a third place finish in The Summit League with a record of 4-3. The Bison advanced to The Summit League tournament championship match with a 2-1 upset win over South Dakota State before falling to Denver to finish runner-up in the event. It was NDSU's fifth straight appearance in the league tournament.
        Cook came to NDSU after serving as the Director of Coaching at the Minnesota Thunder Academy for 11 years, where he grew a four-team program into one of the premier club programs in the Twin Cities with 65 teams in 2012.
        He graduated from Alfred (N.Y.) University in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in communications. He was the starting goalkeeper at Alfred for two years.
 
The Opposing Coaches
Don Klosterman - Omaha
        Don Klosterman enters his 16th season at the helm of the UNO women's soccer program in 2014. The only head coach the University of Nebraska Omaha has had, Klosterman has a 204-85-14 (.696) all-time record. The two-time national coach of the year led the Mavericks to the Division II national semifinals four times, culminating in the 2005 NCAA Division II national championship.
        Klosterman was chosen as UNO's first women's soccer coach in 1998, a year before the team played its first game, after coaching men's soccer for 20 years in high school and college.
        Klosterman is a graduate of Christian Brothers High School in St. Louis and went on to earn his bachelor's degree from Benedictine (Kan.) College in 1974 and his master's in physical education from UNO in 1985.
 
Mandy Green - South Dakota
        Mandy Green is in her fifth season as South Dakota's head women's soccer coach. She was named to the position on March 30, 2010.
        Green spent the 2009 season as an assistant coach on the Xavier University coaching staff, where she was involved in game and practice planning, recruiting and working on the individual development of each athlete.
        Prior to coaching at Xavier, Green was an assistant coach at Minnesota State University, Mankato from 2003-08 and helped build the Maverick program into a Division II power.
        Green coached at the University of Utah from 1999-2003, and served as the program's interim head coach for three months starting in Nov. 2001.
        Green is a 1999 graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., with a bachelor's degree in psychology. She earned a master's degree in sports psychology from the University of Utah in 2006.
 
Up Next
        NDSU returns home to Dacotah Field to host Summit League rival South Dakota State on Friday, Oct. 17, before traveling to Fort Wayne Sunday, Oct. 19.