Sept. 17, 2004

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - PROVIDENCE COLLEGE (2-5 OVERALL): The Providence College field hockey team enters Saturday's game against Vermont with a 2-5 overall record. The Friars are coming off of a 5-1 loss to 16th-ranked Harvard in Cambridge, Mass. on September 16. Junior Kati Lary (Canaan, N.H.) and sophomore Melissa McGow (Branford, Conn.) lead the team in scoring through seven games with 11 points each. Lary has scored a team-high five goals and has one assist. McGow owns two goals and a team-leading seven assists. Senior Amy Phillips (Worcester, Mass.) is third among her teammates in scoring with three goals and one assist for seven points.

Senior goalkeeper Meredith Jones (Lake Forest, Ill.) enters the game with a 3.88 goals against average and a .682 save percentage. In seven games this season, Jones has collected 60 saves. Last season, Providence shutout the Catamounts, 3-0, in Worcester, Mass.

The Friars lead the all-time series against the Catamounts, 5-0. Under the direction of third-year Head Coach Diane Madl, Providence holds a record of 2-0 all-time against the Catamounts. Madl recorded her first victory as a head coach against Vermont in her first game with the Friar program during the 2002 season (3-1).

VERMONT CATAMOUNTS (1-5 OVERALL): Vermont enters Saturday's game with a 1-5 overall record. The Catamount's earned their first win of the season on September 12 against Brown University at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Vermont won the game, 3-2, in overtime. Kelly McClintock leads Vermont in scoring with six points on three goals. Liz Berry and Christie Layden each have three points on one goal and one assist. Ariel Eber has played the majority of minutes in the cage for Vermont (269:03). Eber has posted 43 saves, a 3.38 goals against average and a .768 save percentage. Erin Hickey has played 152:57 minutes in goal and owns a 5.49 goals against average and a .676 save percentage.