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HIGH POINT, N.C. – The High Point University women's soccer team hits the road for the final time in the 2015 regular season on Saturday, Oct. 24, when the team travels to Clinton, S.C., to face Presbyterian College at 7 p.m.

High Point can clinch home field advantage in the first round of the Big South Women's Soccer Championship with a win over the Blue Hose and a loss by Longwood at UNC Asheville. HPU is still in contention for the regular-season title, just three-points back of leader Coastal Carolina.

The Panthers are 10-3-4 in 2015 after a 2-0 win over Charleston Southern on Wednesday. Sophomores Lindsay Elsen and Michele Micciche both scored for HPU while sophomore keeper Alex Persiani made one save to set a new program Div. I single-season record with her ninth shutout of the season.

Micciche is tops on the team with four goals on the season and second in points with eight. Fellow sophomore Bri Jean-Charles leads the Panthers with nine points on three goals and three assists. The balanced HPU attack has seen 12 players combine to score 23 goals. Jean-Charles is tied with sophomores Taylor Romano and Meredith Dunker for the team lead in assists with three.

Persiani leads the Big South with a 0.42 goals-against average and nine shutouts. She is ranked eighth in the nation in both goals-against average and save percentage. High Point is currently fourth in the nation in goals-against average, having allowed just six goals in 17 games. The Panthers sit behind only Cornell, Rutgers and West Virginia.

Presbyterian College is 6-9-1 overall and 2-5-1 in conference play with an impressive home win over Liberty. The Blue Hose played Gardner-Webb to a 1-1 draw on the road on Wednesday. Hannah Gaither scored her team-best sixth goal of the season in the 10th minute for Presbyterian.

Gaither is tops on the team in goals and tied with Stephanie Lee for the team lead in points with 12. Sophie Cobb is second on the team with five goals and third with 11 points. Keeper Sydney Fontenot has started 14 games in goal for the Blue Hose and is 5-8-1 with a 1.66 goals-against average and three shutouts.

High Point is 6-3-1 in 10 all-time meetings with Presbyterian College. The Panthers picked up a 2-1 home win over the Blue Hose last season with goals from Paige Rombach and Bailey Beattie. 

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