BUSY BUSY
It's a three-game week for the Sacred Heart University field hockey team, the squad's only trifecta of the year. The Pios will visit Holy Cross in non-conference play on Wednesday, travel to Merrimack for a Northeast Conference tilt on Friday and return home to face Saint Louis in non-conference action on Sunday. SHU will be looking to snap a three-game losing streak on Wednesday evening in Worcester.

LAST WEEKEND
Sacred Heart played just once last week, with a Friday night game up the road at Yale. Aine Keaney opened the scoring just 3:20 in, but it was all Bulldogs from there. Yale got two goals each from Ellie Barlow and Victoria Collee to pull away for a 5-1 victory

SCOUTING THE CRUSADERS
Holy Cross is also losers of three in a row heading into Wednesday's contest. The Crusaders were shutout, 3-0, at home by Lafayette in their Patriot League opener on Friday night, and then dropped a 4-3 (OT/SO) decision at Providence on Sunday. Meggan Fourie leads the offense with 6-1-13.

PREVIOUSLY AGAINST HOLY CROSS
The two teams last met in 2021, also at Holy Cross, with the Crusaders picking up a 1-0 win, via a 24th-minute goal from the then-first year Fourie. Holy Cross has won the last three meetings between the two sides.

SCOUTING THE WARRIORS
Merrimack has yet to find the win column in 2024 and has been outscored 37-1 across its six losses. In their only action last week, the Warriors were whitewashed at Maine on Saturday, 6-0. Gianna Cioni has the team's only goal thus far.

PREVIOUSLY AGAINST MERRIMACK
This is the sixth straight year the two have played each other, with SHU taking four wins in the five previous meetings. Last year, the Pioneers chalked up a 6-1 win at home, behind a pair of goals from Blaire Sparks, plus a goal and three assists from Madelyn Kidd.

SCOUTING THE BILLIKENS
Saint Louis is 0-5 against Division I competition, but did pick up its first win of the season against Division II Frostburg State on Sunday, 7-1. The Billikens dropped their Atlantic-10 opener at home against Richmond on Friday and will visit La Salle for an A-10 contest on Friday, before coming to take on SHU. Josefina Perez leads fifth-year head coach Zoe Adkins' squad with 14 points on seven goals.

PREVIOUSLY AGAINST SAINT LOUIS
The two teams have met just twice before, with Sacred Heart claiming victory both times. The most recent meeting was 10 years ago, at SHU in 2014. Faith Mackin opened the scoring for Saint Louis, but Liz Bergmann and Olivia Volpe struck just 42 seconds apart to put the Pios ahead before halftime. Lauren Harrison added an insurance marker in the 43rd minute as SHU picked up a 3-1 victory.

UP NEXT
SHU is home for a pair of 1 p.m. matinees next weekend. The Pios will host Saint Francis in NEC play on Friday and then welcome Georgetown for a non-conference contest on Sunday.