WINCHESTER, Va. – Shenandoah University enters its first-ever ECAC Women's Soccer Championship as the No. 3 seed in the McDaniel pod.
 
Led by overall No. 1 seed McDaniel, the four-team pod features second-seeded Pfeiffer and No. 4 Penn State – Behrend in addition to the Hornets (11-8).
 
The Green Terror takes on PSU-B in the opening game at 11:30 Saturday morning with Shenandoah set to face the Falcons at 2.
 
Shenandoah has never met Pfeiffer in women's soccer; the Falcons officially joined NCAA Division III in the fall of 2017 after longtime membership in Division II.
 
The Falcons won the USA South East Division title with a 7-1 league mark and have a 12-4 overall record. As an NCAA reclassifying member, they are still ineligible to compete in the USA South and NCAA tournaments.
 
SU and Pfeiffer have four common opponents, two each from the ODAC and USA South. Shenandoah is 3-1 in those four games and outscored Guilford, Roanoke, Meredith and N.C. Wesleyan by a combined total of 14-4.
 
The Falcons were 2-2, winning 3-1 versus Guilford and 4-0 over Meredith. The Falcons lost 2-1 to both Roanoke and N.C. Wesleyan.
 
Shenandoah's lone loss in that group was a 1-0 overtime defeat at Roanoke.
 
Maiya Pencile and Emily Yergin, both named All-ODAC earlier this week, are the Hornets two leading scorers. Pencile has 31 points on 11 goals and nine assists while Yergin, the all-time leading scorer in program history, had 13 goals and four assists for 30 points.
 
Sophomore Emilie Smith has a 1.50 GAA and 38 saves in 840 minutes played.
 
Sophomore Mackenzie Pruitt paces Pfeiffer with nine goals and six assists for 24 points. Fellow forward Cayci Eaton, a junior, has 19 points on eight goals and three assists.
 
Senior Kaley Hyatt has played the majority of time in goal, logging a 0.71 GAA and 48 saves in 1140 minutes.
 
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