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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6 --
Central Washington at (#14) Seattle Pacific
Interbay Stadium/Seattle, Wash., 1:00 p.m. PST
LiveStats: www.sidearmstats.com/spu/wsoc/index.htm


SEATTLE -- The 14th-ranked Seattle Pacific women's soccer team (14-1-2, 11-1-1 GNAC) plays for postseason positioning on Saturday, Nov. 4 in the final regular-season home game against Central Washington (4-11-2, 4-8-1 GNAC). Kick-off is 1 p.m. at Interbay Stadium where the Falcons hope to be playing next week in the playoffs.

Prior to Saturday's game a brief ceremony will be conducted to honor SPU's three seniors. Goalkeeper Maddie Dickinson, forward Amanda Johnson and defender Becca Woods will make their final regular-season home appearance.

Great Northwest Athletic Conference champion SPU has an automatic postseason invitation and was listed No. 2 in this week's West Region rankings. The top-two teams in each region earn the right to host first- and second-round NCAA Division II Tournament games. A win Saturday could elevate the Falcons to the West's top spot as current No. 1 BYU-Hawaii lost on Tuesday.


Fast Fact
The Falcons are in the midst of a seven-game winning streak, marking the ninth straight season an SPU squad reeled off a run of at least seven straight victories.



Playoff Bound
The 48-team NCAA Division II championship field will be announced on Monday, Nov. 8 at 4 p.m. Pacific Time via a webcast selection show on NCAA.com. Seattle Pacific, which will compete in the playoffs for the eighth straight year, have hosted early-round action four times at Interbay Stadium.

Two years ago, the early postseason home field advantage help propel the Falcons to the 2008 national championship. Last year they were sent on the road to San Diego and battled Chico State to a scoreless tie before falling 4-3 in a penalty-kick tiebreaker. SPU advanced to the Final Four in three of the last five years.


GNAC Champions
SPU has already clinched a second straight Great Northwest Athletic Conference championship and its seventh in the league's 10-year history. The Falcons have a league-leading 34 points with an 11-1-1 GNAC record. Second-place Simon Fraser is eight points back with an 8-3-2 mark. The Falcons were picked to repeat as GNAC champion in the preseason coaches poll. They captured the 2009 conference crown with a 9-2-1 record.


Ticket Talk
Tickets for Saturday's SPU soccer game can be purchased on game day at Interbay Stadium (3027 17th Ave. W., Seattle 98119). Ticket windows open at noon. All seats are general admission and priced at $6 for adults and $3 for students and senior citizens. SPU students and staff are admitted free. Groups or teams of 10 or more may qualify for reduced ticket rates by calling (206) 281-2085 in advance.


Follow the Action
Live stats will be available for Saturday's game and can be accessed via the internet at: http://www.sidearmstats.com/spu/wsoc


Magnificent Maddie
On Oct. 2, goalkeeper Maddie Dickinson blanked Simon Fraser to become SPU's career shutout leader. She now has 27 career clean sheets, eclipsing the previous school record of 25 established by Jennifer Hull from 2001-04. Dickinson has surrendered just eight goals in 1,573 minutes this season.

The product of Skyview High School in Vancouver, Wash. was the Sept. 14 GNAC Athlete of the Week. She currently leads the GNAC and ranks No. 14 nationally with a 0.46 goals against average. Dickinson put together a school-record scoreless streak of 1,012-minutes, 12-seconds from 2008-09 that included a 1-0 double-overtime win over West Florida in the 2008 NCAA Division II title game.


Home Sweet Home
Seattle Pacific lost only once in its last 50 home games at Interbay Stadium, falling 1-0 to Western Washington on Sept. 30, 2010. The Falcons compiled a 45-1-4 home record since their previous setback (Sept. 30, 2006 vs. Seattle University), including a perfect 15-0 mark in 2007, 11-0-2 in 2008 and 11-0-1 last season.


Coach Chuck Sekyra
In his eighth season, Chuck Sekyra has guided Seattle Pacific to a remarkable 148-15-14 record, three Final Four appearances and the 2008 national championship. He directed six of those teams to GNAC championships, and all eight of his squads earned NCAA Tournament berths. His Falcons advanced to the 2005 championship game.

Sekyra was a defender on the SPU men's soccer teams that won back-to-back NCAA titles in 1985 and 1986. He served as an assistant men's coach at SPU in 1998 and 1999 under Cliff McCrath, then was an assistant women's coach at Washington for three years before being named head coach of the SPU women in 2003. Sekyra was named GNAC Coach of the Year five times (2003-05, '07, '09) and the Regional Coach of the Year in 2005 and 2007. He received the NSCAA National Coach of the Year award in 2007.


Throw-Ins
The Falcons outscored opponents 21-5 during their current seven-game winning streak ... SPU had a player score multiple goals in six games this season, including a hat trick from sophomore Hannah Masson on Sept. 25 ... The Falcons outshot opponents 262-143 and more than doubled the shots-on-goal tally with a 146-67 advantage.


Scouting SPU
(14-1-2, 11 -1-1 GNAC)

The first-place Falcons have outscored opponents 41-8, led by the 10 goals of Megan Lindsay (Spokane, Wash./Spokane Prep). The sophomore forward tallied seven goals during the last seven games. Freshman Kellie Zakrzewski (Cheney, Wash./Cheney HS) ranks second on the team with seven goals. Junior Brandi Hamre (Bremerton, Wash./Central Kitsap HS) is the team's top playmaker with eight assists.

The stingy SPU defense shut out 10 opponents and yielded more than one goal just once. Senior goalkeeper Maddie Dickinson (Vancouver, Wash./Skyview HS) is the school's all-time leader with 27 career shutouts. She compiled a 0.46 goals against average while playing all but 37 minutes this season.


Scouting Central Washington
(4-11-2, 4-8-1 GNAC)

The Wildcats lost by shutout in each of their last three outings. Serena Tomaso is CWU's leading scorer with seven goals and Kaycie Hutchins distributed a team-high five assists.

Goalkeeper Kori Butterfield has one shutout and a 1.90 goals against average. She is averaging over five saves per game.

Seattle Pacific leads the all-time series 16-2-1 despite having its eight-game winning streak against Central halted by a 3-1 loss last year in Ellensburg. That was the Wildcats first victory against SPU since 2001. The Falcons won this season's first matchup, a 5-1 decision on Oct. 9.