SCHEDULE AND RESULTS

Thursday, August 18

Charleston 3, Alabama A&M 0

Delaware 3, Delaware State 0

Elon 3, American 0

Drexel 3, Loyola Maryland 1

UNCW 2, Queens 0

Hofstra 3, Fairleigh Dickinson 2

Northeastern 1, Boston University 0

Stony Brook 2, Fordham 1

Towson 1, Howard 0

Virginia Tech 4, William and Mary 3

Friday, August 19

Monmouth 3, Lehigh 0

Sunday, August 21

Charleston 3, Coastal Carolina 0

Monmouth 3, UAlbany 0

Drexel 2, Marist 0

Stony Brook 3, Bryant 1

Delaware 1, Villanova 1

Elon 3, Howard 3

George Washington 1, William & Mary 0

^10/8 North Carolina 2, UNCW 0

La Salle 3, Towson 1

Boston College 4, Northeastern 1

Tuesday, August 23

Hampton at USC Upstate (ESPN+)........................ 4 p.m.

Thursday, August 25

Stony Brook at Quinnipiac (ESPN+)....................... 3 p.m.

Fairleigh Dickinson at Monmouth (FloFC)............ 4 p.m.

Towson at George Washington (ESPN+)........ 4:30 p.m.

Rhode Island at Northeastern (FloFC)................... 6 p.m.

Drexel at Lehigh (ESPN+)......................................... 6 p.m.

Old Dominion at William & Mary (FloFC).............. 7 p.m.

Delaware at Virginia Tech (ACCNX)........................ 7 p.m.

UNCW at VCU (ESPN+)............................................. 7 p.m.

Radford at Hampton................................................. 7 p.m.

Friday, August 26

Hofstra at Yale (ESPN+)........................................... 4 p.m.

Charleston at Mercer (TBD)..................................... 6 p.m.

Sunday, August 28

NJIT at Drexel (FloFC)................................................ 1 p.m.

Delaware at Richmond (ESPN+)............................. 1 p.m.

William & Mary at High Point (ESPN+)................. 1 p.m.

^10/7 Penn State at Monmouth (FloFC).................... 1 p.m.

Charleston at Georgia (SECN+)............................... 2 p.m.

LIU at Stony Brook (FloFC)....................................... 2 p.m.

UAlbany at Hofstra (FloFC)...................................... 3 p.m.

Coastal Carolina at UNCW (FloFC).......................... 7 p.m.

Mount St. Mary’s at Towson (FloFC)..................... 7 p.m.

Virginia Tech at Elon (FloFC).................................... 7 p.m.

Monday, August 29

Northeastern at Harvard (ESPN+)......................... 3 p.m.

Hampton at Regent.................................................. 6 p.m.

WEEKLY AWARDS

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Faith Slimmer, Charleston
Sophomore | Forward | Petersburg, N.J. / Ocean City
Slimmer was one of six goal scorers for Charleston as the Cougars opened 2022 with back-to-back 3-0 victories over Alabama A&M and Coastal Carolina. The sophomore from South Jersey assisted on three of the other five Charleston goals on the weekend to help the Cougars to a +6 scoring margin through two contests – the best mark in program history.

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Cassie Coster, Monmouth
Sophomore | Goalkeeper | Poughquag, N.Y. / Arlington
Coster made an immediate impact in her first weekend in a Monmouth uniform and the Hawks’ first two contests as a CAA member. The sophomore from New York played all 180 minutes in goal for the Hawks and produced two clean sheets in 3-0 wins over Lehigh and UAlbany. Coster stopped all nine shots on goal, all of which came in Sunday’s victory over the Great Danes.

ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Ivey Crain, William & Mary
Freshman | Forward | Milton, Ga. / Pinecrest Academy
Crain struck twice in 86 seconds as part of William & Mary’s three-goal first half on Thursday against Virginia Tech. The freshman from Georgia gave the Tribe a 3-2 lead with the pair of tallies and W&M led the visitors from the ACC for 53 minutes despite the Hokies’ 24-7 shot advantage in the contest.

NEWS AND NOTES

UNO, DOS, TRES, CATORCE

CAA teams went 14-5-2 in the opening weekend of the 2022 season. 

Charleston, Drexel, Monmouth, and Stony Brook - the latter two conference newcomers - won twice, while Delaware, Elon, and Hofstra were also undefeated.

Ten teams won at least once on the weekend.

BUZZER-BEATER

Stony Brook’s Hannah Maracina scored the game-winning goal as time expired in her collegiate debut to give the Seawolves a 2-1 victory over Fordham on Thursday night 

The goal at 90:00 earned the No. 2 spot on the SportsCenter Top 10 and had been viewed over 110,000 times across the Stony Brook, CAA, and NCAA Instagram accounts as of Monday morning.

PROGNOSTICATIONS

UNCW received seven of 12 first-place votes in the CAA preseason coaches poll, while Hofstra collected four and Monmouth earned one.

The Seahawks earned the regular season title last year, the Pride captured the CAA Championship, and the Hawks grabbed the MAAC crown.

Northeastern, which advanced to the conference final last November, was voted third ahead of Monmouth.

GREAT EIGHT

Eight teams will qualify for the CAA Championship in 2022 with the quarterfinals hosted by the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds.

The top remaining seed will host the conference title game in the first weekend of November.

DRAFT PARTY

Three CAA seniors - Hofstra’s Lucy Shepherd (Washington) and Miri Taylor (Angel City) and UNCW’s Audrey Harding (Washington) - were selected in last winter’s NWSL Draft.

The three CAA selections were tied for the most of any non-Power 5 conference.

TEAM NOTES

CHARLESTON (2-0-0)

•   The Cougars opened the season with back-to-back shutouts for the first time since 2008, while the +6 scoring margin through two contests is the best in program history.

•   Charleston’s six goals on the opening weekend came from the foot of six different scorers.

DELAWARE (1-0-1)

• Izzy Lane assisted on three of Delaware’s four goals in the opening 1-0-1 weekend.

•   Delaware travels to Virginia Tech on Thursday as the second of three CAA teams to face the Hokies in non-conference play this fall.

DREXEL (2-0-0)

•   Drexel limited its opposition to one shot on goal over 180 minutes in its season-opening 2-0 week.

•   The Dragons have opened the year with a 2-0 record and +4 scoring margin for the first time since 2016.

ELON (1-0-1)

•   The six goals through two games for Elon are the Phoenix’s most since 2017.

•   Elon’s freshmen accounted for 11 of the team’s 19 shot attempts on Sunday.

HAMPTON (0-0-0)

•   The Pirates open the fall Tuesday at USC Upstate ... Hampton is slated to play all but four of its games away from its 2022 home in Williamsburg.

•   Hampton joins the league after competing since 2018 in the Big South. The Pirates return 83% of their points from a season ago as they enter their time in the CAA.

HOFSTRA (1-0-0)

•   Ellen Halseth scored in the 88th minute to lift Hofstra past Fairleigh Dickinson on Thursday ... Thorhildur Thorhallsdottir and Anja Suttner also scored for the Pride.

•   The Pride’s non-conference schedule includes four Ivy League opponents with games at Yale and Brown and home against Columbia and Princeton.

MONMOUTH (2-0-0)

•   CAA Defensive Player of the Week Cassie Coster posted shutouts in each of her first two matches in a Monmouth uniform.

•   Monmouth will welcome No. 10 Penn State on Sunday in Central Jersey ... The Nittany Lions advanced to the Round of 16 in last year’s NCAA Tournament.

UNCW (1-1-0)

•   Chloe Mills and Talia Parrous scored in UNCW’s season-opening victory at Queens.

•   UNCW earned the preseason first-place selection after a 7-2-0 mark in CAA play in 2021. The Seahawks ran off an eight-match unbeaten streak from August to October and return four of their top five scorers from a year ago and preseason All-CAA selections Morgan Nanni and Talia Parrous.

NORTHEASTERN (1-1-0)

•   Alexis Legowski and Vivian Akyirem scored goals for the Huskies in their opening weekend contests against crosstown opponents.

•   Northeastern does not leave New England in the non-conference portion of its schedule, playing six contests in Massachusetts and one each in New Hampshire and Connecticut ... All eight matches are against opponents from New England states.

STONY BROOK (2-0-0)

•   Hannah Maracina scored in the final second of Stony Brook’s opening night 2-1 win over Fordham ... The tally earned the No. 2 spot on the SportsCenter Top 10.

•   Stony Brook opened the year with back-to-back victories for the first time since the 2019 squad that won the America East title.

TOWSON (1-1-0)

•   The Tigers pulled even with La Salle late in Sunday’s contest before the Explorers tallied two goals in the closing minutes.

•   Preseason All-CAA selection Phoebe Canoles has scored both of Towson’s goals this season.

WILLIAM & MARY (0-2-0)

•   The Tribe scored three first-half goals in Thursday’s opener against Virginia Tech.

•   Rookie of the Week Ivey Crain scored the first two goals of her collegiate career 86 seconds apart in the clash with the Hokies.