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GAME DAY
• Rensselaer (1-3) hosts #3 Skidmore (5-0) in the Liberty League opener for both teams at Harkness Field. 

LAST TIME OUT
• Elizabeth Cusack knocked her own rebound past Hannah Clough with just eight seconds to go in regulation to give St. John Fisher a 2-1 win over RPI in non-conference field hockey action last Saturday. Chloe Hutchinson scored for the Engineers.

THE ENGINEERS
•    Chloe Hutchinson leads Rensselaer with two goals so far this season, while junior transfer Celia D'Agostino has recorded a team-best four assists as the Engineers' primary ball inserter on penalty corners.

•    Senior goalkeeper Hannah Clough returned to the field in RPI's last game at St. John Fisher after missing the first four contests with an injury. Clough, an All-Liberty League selection a year ago, made 151 saves in 17 games with a .812 save percentage. 

•    RPI's team is composed of a majority of young players, with ten freshmen gracing the roster, along with five sophomores, five juniors, and four seniors. The Engineers went 8-9 last season with a 2-4 mark in Liberty League play, but finished the 2013 season with five wins in the last six games.   

•    Seniors Chloe Hutchinson and Molly Zuk, along with junior Angela Cascio will serve as captains to lead the Engineers on and off the field this year.

THE THOROUGHBREDS
•    Skidmore moved up one spot to third in the latest Penn Monto/NFHCA Division III National Coaches' Poll released on Tuesday after posting back-to-back wins last week over New Paltz (8-2) and Babson (7-1). 

•    The Thoroughbreds currently rank first in Division III in goals per game (7.8) and scoring average (7.8), third in scoring margin (6.6) and points per game (20.40), and fourth in assists per game (4.8).

•    Dani DeGregory leads the nation in points per game (6.4) and goals per game (2.6), just ediging out teammate Sam Skott, who is second nationally with 2.4 goals per game.

•    The Thoroughbreds were picked to win the Liberty League in 2014 Preseason Poll. Skidmore returns 14 players from last year's roster that compiled an overall record of 19-4 en route to the program's sixth Liberty League championship and an appearance in the National Semifinals.