SPRINGFIELD – The Missouri State women's soccer team (2-4-1) will host the SIU Edwardsville Cougars (2-4-1) on Friday (Sept. 16) and Southeast Missouri State (6-0-1) on Sunday (Sept. 18) to end the longest homestand of the season for the Bears at Betty and Bobby Allison South Stadium.
 
Match Information:
Missouri State Bears vs. SIU Edwardsville, 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 16
Missouri State Bears vs. Southeast Missouri State, 1 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 18
Location: Springfield, Mo.
Site: Betty and Bobby Allison South Stadium (1,000)
Live Stats: SIUE | SEMO
The Valley On ESPN3: SIUE
 
Series History
Missouri State has never lost at home against SIUE (3-0-1), holding the all-time record of 5-2-1 against the Cougars. The most recent meeting between the two programs was last season in Edwardsville, Ill., where the Bears dropped the match 1-0, in double overtime, after a goal scored by SIUE's Ashlyn Walter in the 109^th minute of the match.
 
The Bears are 5-2 all-time against SEMO, with the last meeting between the two programs resulting in a 1-0 victory for Missouri State in Cape Girardeau, Mo. in 2008. MSU's only loss at home to SEMO came in 2002 when the Redhawks took a commanding 3-0 lead in the 53^rd minute of the match and never lost it.
 
Quick Kicks

• Friday night's game against SIUE is "Break the Attendance Record Night" for the women's soccer program. The attendance record of 905 at a women's soccer game was set at Cooper Sports Complex in 1999 when the Bears played SEMO. There will giveaways to the first 150 fans through the gate and admission is free for all fans.
• The Missouri State Bears went undefeated last weekend against Omaha (2-1) and Central Arkansas (1-0), winning their first two games of the season. The last time MSU won two-consecutive games was against Indiana State (Oct. 10) and Illinois State (Oct. 17) last season. The Bears haven't won two-consecutive games in Springfield since 2014.
• Junior Brooke Zimmerman fired four of her five shots on the season in the two matches against Omaha (3) and Central Arkansas (1) this weekend. Sunday's lone shot converted to Zimmerman's fifth-career game-winning goal to lift the Bears over Central Arkansas in the 84th minute of play. With her game-winner, Zimmerman moves into the top-10 career leaderboard of game-winning goals in MSU program history.
• Fifteen seconds after checking into Friday's match against Omaha, freshman Ashley Coonfield scored her first college goal, and the game-winning goal of the match, for the Bears. She is the only freshman to record a goal this season and currently ranks seventh on the team in shots taken.
• Evan Stamp played a vital role in net for the Bears this weekend, allowing just one goal Friday night and grabbing a shutout victory on Sunday. Making 12 saves on the weekend, and a single-game career high nine saves in Sunday's match, the junior leads the Valley in saves per game, averaging 5.43 saves per game in the net this season. Sunday's match against Central Arkansas was the first game since UMKC (Aug. 24) that the keeper didn't allow a goal while Friday's match against Omaha was the first since Little Rock (Aug. 26) that Stamp allowed less than three goals in the match.

 
Scouting the Opponents
The Cougars and Bears enter the match with identical records of 2-4-1 on the season. SIUE opened the season with a 6-1 victory over Chicago State at home with help of sophomore Avery Anderson's hat trick. The Cougars played to a double-overtime scoreless draw at home with Kansas State before heading west for a pair of matches against Denver and Colorado State where the Cougars could not overcome either team, falling to each by a final score of 2-1. SIUE won their second match of the season against the visiting University of Illinois-Chicago (3-1). The Cougars will arrive to Springfield on a two-game losing streak, dropping games at Iowa (5-1) and Saint Louis (4-1). SIUE has not won on the road this season.
 
The SEMO Redhawks are undefeated this season, posting an overall record of 6-0-1. SEMO opened the season at Tennessee (1-0) before returning home for a matchup with the University of Illinois-Springfield (3-1). The Redhawks headed north for games at Green Bay (1-0) and Milwaukee (1-0) to finish the month of August. SEMO opened September at MVC opponent Evansville (0-0) for the team's only tie of the season. The Redhawks recently hosted Union University (4-1) and Florida Atlantic (1-0) in Cape Girardeau and will travel to Lexington, Ky. on Wednesday (Sept. 14) to face the Wildcats in a midweek matchup before traveling to Springfield on Sunday (Sept. 18).
 
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