No. 3/1 Alabama Soccer Travels to Mississippi State, Hosts Florida on Senior Day

Thursday, October 20

Starkville, Miss.

6:30 p.m. CT

Alabama

Mississippi State

Photo by: Crimson Tide Photos / UA Athletics

No. 3/1 Alabama Soccer Travels to Mississippi State, Hosts Florida on Senior Day

10/19/2022 4:58:00 PM | Soccer

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The Crimson Tide will compete against the Bulldogs on Thursday, before welcoming the Gators to Tuscaloosa on Sunday

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The No. 3-ranked Alabama soccer team (14-1-1, 7-0-0 SEC) heads to Mississippi State for a 6:30 p.m. CT match on Thursday before returning home on Sunday to host Florida in a 6 p.m. match at the Alabama Soccer Stadium.

Sunday's game against the Gators will be the Tide's last regular-season home game and will serve as the team's senior day. The Crimson Tide will recognize graduate student Ashlynn Serepca and seniors Allie Berk, Macy Clem, Sasha Pickard, Reyna Reyes, Bella Scaturro, Riley Tanner and Sydney Vincens following the game.

The Games

Mississippi State (10-2-3, 4-2-1 SEC): Thursday, Oct. 20 – 6:30 p.m. CT, streaming on the SECN+
Florida (2-11-1, 0-6-1 SEC): Sunday: Oct. 23 – 6 p.m. CT, streaming on SECN+

How To Follow

Links to the video streams and live scoring will be available at RollTide.com
Fans can also follow the action via the team's official Twitter account, @AlabamaSoccer

In the Rankings

Alabama enters the weekend ranked No.1 by TopDrawerSoccer and No. 3 in this week's United Soccer Coaches poll
In addition to Alabama's team ranking, several players rank in the top-25 statistically
Felicia Knox leads the NCAA in total assists with 14, while also leading the nation in assists per game with an average of 0.88 per game
Riley Mattingly Parker and Ashlynn Serepca rank 11th nationally in game-winning goals with four apiece
Parker also ranks 10th in the NCAA for total goals with 11 and is tied for 16th in total points (24) with Knox
The Tide is also sixth in assists per game (2.62), fourth in shots per game (20.88), fourth in points per game (8.62) and third in scoring offense (3.00)
Ashlynn Serepca leads the nation in games played, seeing time in 101 career matches
McKinley Crone has totaled 402 career saves, sixth most among active players, in addition to playing 8,509.77 minutes, second-most for an active college goalkeeper

About The Season

UA is riding a ten-match winning streak following to a 2-1 win against then-No. 7 Arkansas in the Tide's last outing
Alabama has defeated five ranked teams this season, including three opponents ranked in the top-10 in then-No. 6 BYU, then-No. 5 South Carolina and then-No. 7 Arkansas
The Tide's streak of 10 games tied the program record
The 10-game winning streak ranks second among NCAA Division I programs for the longest active streak, trailing only Saint Louis who has won 13 straight matches
Additionally, Alabama captured its 15^th-consecutive win at home, remaining undefeated at the Alabama Soccer Stadium since the team recorded a 2-0 win against UAB on Sept. 12, 2021
The Crimson Tide has outscored its opponents 48-10 this season

Pacing the Tide

Felicia Knox continues to lead the NCAA in assists, tallying 14 this season which broke the Alabama single-season record of 10 assists set by Merel van Dongen in 2014
McKinley Crone holds the single-season record by an Alabama goalkeeper, capturing her 14th win this season in a 2-1 victory over Arkansas, surpassing the prior record of 13 set by Rachel Brown in 1998
The win over Arkansas was Crone's 32nd in an Alabama uniform, which topped the previous record of 30 by Amy Pseja (1994-96)
Riley Mattingly Parker holds a team-leading 24 points and 11 goals, four of which were game-winning shots
Knox is tied with Parker with 24 points on the year with 14 assists and five goals
Crone has tallied 190 saves while with the Tide, ranking seventh all-time in that category
The graduate student goalkeeper recorded her sixth shutout this season and 17th in an Alabama uniform in a 5-0 victory over LSU (10/6)
Crone ranks second in program history for career shutouts, trailing only Justine Bernier (2007, 2009-11) who had a total of 21 clean sheets
The win against LSU (10/9) was UA's eighth shutout of the season as the team has held Florida Atlantic, Southern Miss, then-No. 18 Clemson, North Alabama, then-No. 5 South Carolina, Chattanooga and Texas A&M scoreless

Get all the latest information on the team by following @AlabamaSoccer on Twitter and Facebook and AlabamaSoccer on Instagram. General athletic news can also be found at UA_Athletics on Twitter and Instagram and AlabamaAthletics on Facebook.

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