LAKE CHARLES - McNeese's soccer team (6-5-2, 3-1-1 SLC) will face Northwestern State (4-9-0, 2-4-0 SLC) in a rematch Friday night before hosting Southeastern (4-9-0, 2-4-0 SLC) Sunday evening at Cowgirl Field beginning at 7 p.m. and 5 p.m. respectively.

"It's an important weekend across the conference," remarked head coach Drew Fitzgerald. "Facing NSU again in such a short period of time is an interesting challenge. We'll obviously both be pretty familiar with each other, and it'll just come down to execution."

McNeese takes on the Lady Demons in its first rematch of the season after having taken a 2-0 victory in the prior meeting as the blue and gold host Student Appreciation night.

Fitzgerald continued to say, "Southeastern always plays an attractive style of soccer and has good technical players. Both teams have a difficult Friday match so, as is often the case on Sunday, the team that can overcome fatigue and be ready to perform is the likely winner."

Sunday's matchup with Southeastern is the Alumni Game for McNeese and will be the first meeting between the two teams since October 23, nearly a year ago.

Friday's match is scheduled to have live stats to follow with Sunday's match having live stats in addition to being streamed on ESPN+.

McNeese Notes
- McNeese has outscored its opponents 23-14 thus far.
- The Cowgirls have the third-least goals scored on them this season in the conference.
- Behind Lamar, McNeese has the second highest scoring average at 1.769 goals per match.
- Martine Ellefsen was named SLC Defensive Player of the Week (9/26) after scoring her first collegiate goal against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi to force a tie.
- Jackie Kelly earned SLC Goalkeeper of the Week (9/26) honors after playing 135 minutes on the weekend, earning the win in a combined shutout victory over Nicholls.
- The Cowgirls have taken and made three penalty kicks this season after not having a single attempt a year ago.
- Morgan Fiedler is second in the conference with three game-winning goals which places her 28th in the nation.
- Jackie Kelly is 39th in the nation with a save percentage of .842, trailing only Panis in the conference.
- Morgan Fiedler is tied for second in the conference with five total goals on the season.
- Fiedler is atop the Southland in penalty kick percentage at 1.000, making her lone kick of the season. Kaile Kukaua is also tied with her with Isabelle Smith rounding out the trio for the Cowgirls.

Northwestern State Notes/Series Record
- The Lady Demons are 1-2 against common opponents this season.
- McNeese defeated NSU 2-0 in the last outing just a little under two weeks ago.
- Taylor Spitzer has scored four goals this season to lead the team and is one of four different players to score a goal for them this season.
- Libe Banuelos has started all 13 games for the purple and orange in the net. She leads the conference in saves per game at 5.08.
- McNeese and NSU are tied with a 17-17-6 all-time record.

Southeastern Notes/Series Record
- The Lions are 1-4 when playing common opponents, beating Jackson State while falling to Southern, Northwestern State, Lamar, and A&M-Corpus Christi.
- Mya Guillory, the team's leading scorer from 2022 (6), leads the team once again with three goals on the season with one assist.
- Four additional players have scored at least one goal for the Lions.
- Southeastern holds the all-time advantage in the series at 24-10--6 all-time.
- McNeese has averaged 1.15 goals per match vs. SLU.