ST. PAUL, Minn. - This Friday (5pm CDT) and Sunday (11am CDT), Concordia-St. Paul (3-1, 2-0 GLIAC) will face its first GLIAC road games of the season, heading to Marquette, Michigan to face Northern Michigan (2-3, 0-0 GLIAC) at the Superior Dome.

TICKETS
Northern Michigan does not list a visiting ticket policy, but does have online ticket sales with its COVID policies on the ticket website. Fans must wear masks and distance in the Superior Dome, and no outside food/beverage is permitted and concession stands are not open. Contact NMU Athletics with additional questions regarding visiting ticket sales.

LIVE COVERAGE
Games will feature a live video webcast at a $10 pay-per-view charge by visiting the school's video portal hosted by Stretch Live. Games will also feature separate live stats links each contest, with the links available on the CSP lacrosse schedule.

ROAD TRIP
Over the next two weeks, CSP lacrosse will be racking up the mileage, heading to Michigan's Upper Peninsula this weekend to face Northern Michigan in Marquette. The following Thursday and Saturday, they'll head to Michigan's mainland to face #9 Grand Valley State in Allendale (Grand Rapids area) before heading back home for Easter. On April 6, they'll head south to the St. Louis area to to face #1 Lindenwood in St. Charles, Missouri before heading across the state on April 7 to Kansas City to face Rockhurst. The six game trip features three games against nationally-ranked top-10 teams in the country.

CSP gets a break after the road trips with a bye on the April 9-11 weekend before returning home to Sea Foam Stadium to face Davenport on April 16 & 18 outdoors to wrap-up the regular season.

SERIES HISTORY: CSP 6, NMU 0
The Golden Bears and Wildcats will meet for the seventh and eighth times this weekend, previously playing two games per year in 2017, 2018 and 2019 before last year's COVID-shortened season canceled the season series. CSP is 3-0 at the Superior Dome, winning 14-8 in 2017 in the first-ever meeting between the programs, with a 23-12 win in 2018 and a 20-11 victory in 2019 in the last meeting between the programs. In the all-time series, CSP has scored at least 14 goals every contest, topping 20 goals in four of the six while holding NMU to 12 or less in five of the six games including three times in single digits. CSP is also 4-0 against NMU in GLIAC conference play.

LAST MEETING, 2019: CSP 20, NMU 11
CSP trailed 2-1 in the opening 10-plus minutes at the Superior Dome before Maddie Hentges scored five first half goals to help the Golden Bears claim a 12-6 lead into the break. Alina Boyce led the team with seven points (4g, 3a) while Lexi Stanley secured 10 draw controls and four ground balls. Katie Lottsfeldt picked up the win in goal, making 14 saves while allowing 11 goals. Graison Ringlever led NMU with six points including five of their 11 goals, adding six draw controls and three ground balls. Cam Stilson took the loss in net, allowing 20 goals while making 18 saves.

In the win, Stanley had set program records for single-game draw controls (10) and season draw controls (53). The 10 draw controls remains a school record, and she would finish that season with 79 draw controls, still a school record on her way to setting the career record with 109 draw controls in 37 games as a Golden Bear.

The win was Concordia's third in a four game winning streak and was back-to-back wins over NMU as CSP topped the Wildcats five days earlier 21-9 at the Concordia Dome in St. Paul.

LAST TIME OUT: CSP SWEEPS ASHLAND
The Golden Bears extended their winning streak to three games, their home winning streak to seven games and Concordia Dome winning streak to seven games. CSP won by double-digits each time against the Eagles, 16-6 on Friday and 18-5 on Saturday as freshman goalie Maddy Huebner had a 5.5 goals against average in her first two starts and has a .560 save percentage with 14 saves on the season. Senior Lex Seifert was the GLIAC Offensive Player of the Week with 11 points, dishing four assists on Friday which is one shy of her single game school record before netting career-highs of seven points and four goals on Sunday.

EARLY SEASON LEADERS: OFFENSE
Lex Seifert ranks second in the GLIAC with nine assists and sixth in the league with 13 points. The team has featured a balanced and versatile attack led by Sara McNicoll's eight goals, ranking second on the team with 10 points. Seven other players have scored between four and six goals, with senior Katie Moynihan alone in second on the team with six goals scored. CSP has also been strong at the catch and shoot game, with assists on 26 of 48 goals while opponents have just 11 assists on 34 goals. The three players with five goals each, Mary Keating, Molly Moynihan and Ellie Fedorowski also each have two assists and are tied for third on the team with seven points. CSP has had 13 different players score goals and 10 different players in on assists.

EARLY SEASON LEADERS: DEFENSE & GROUND GAME
Senior Sarah Pierson leads the team and ranks fifth in the league with 19 draw controls and is second in the league with 12 ground balls, leading all non-goalies with Maki Jenner shortly behind with nine, tied for seventh in the GLIAC. Jenner also leads the league with eight caused turnovers, one more than defensive teammate Valerie Bragg. Freshman goalie Maddy Huebner leads the league with a .560 save percentage and a 5.50 goals against average and her 10 ground balls in two games put her in fourth among the league leaders.

The Golden Bears rank second in the conference in goals against average at 8.50 as a team and save percentage at .477 and lead the league with 46 caused turnovers and 100 ground balls.

ABOUT THE WILDCATS
Northern Michigan brings firepower into the GLIAC opener with the league's top two goal scorers in Emily Renfrew (19) and Madeline Bittell (13). Renfrew's 22 points is tied for the league lead and Bittell is third with 17. Cam Stilson leads the league in goalie saves with 39.

Northern Michigan is coming off of a 21-20 loss to Findlay in NMU's final non-conference tilt as Emily Renfrew tied the NMU record for single game goals with nine. NMU has dropped two in a row, also falling at Chicago 16-11 last week. The two non-conference wins were over Quincy and Maryville on the road, while the team opened with a 23-2 loss to Lindenwood at home to a Lions team that is now #1 in the country.

The Wildcats were picked fourth in the GLIAC Preseason Coaches Poll.