The No. 21 William and Mary field hockey team will look for its 11th win of the year on Friday night, as the Tribe hosts No. 22 Wake Forest at 6:30 p.m. at Busch Field.  This is the only game this week for the Tribe.

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Scouting the Tribe
W&M is 10-4 overall and 3-2 in the CAA after splitting a pair of matches at home last weekend.  Junior Chaney Manganello (Richmond, Va.) scored the game-winner against Towson in overtime Sunday, taking a pass from senior captain Maria Caro (Martinsville, N.J.) and banging it into the back of the box for her first goal of the year.  For the year, senior Christine Johnson (Williamsburg, Va.) leads the Tribe with seven goals and five assists, with Australians Emma Clifton (Loomberah, NSW) and Pip Saunders (Mittagong, NSW) close behind at 6g-4a and 4g-5a (respectively).  Senior Allison Moran (Wynnewood, Pa.) is tied with Saunders for third on the scoring list with five goals, and three assists.

Scouting the Demon Deacons
Wake Forest is 5-7 on the year and 1-2 in the ACC, with wins over then-No. 9 Duke and then-No. 10 Michigan early in the year.  Jess McFayden is the top offensive weapon on the team with eight goals and two assists, with Taylor Rhea (7g, 1a) and Anna Kozniuk (3g, 8a) close behind.  On defense, Kaitlyn Ruhf has seen the majority of action in goal with a 2.24 GAA and 53 saves.

The Series
The all-time series between W&M and WFU is all tied up at 5-5, though Wake Forest has won three in a row.  The two teams met every year from 1992-2000, but this will be the first match-up since then.  In Williamsburg, the Tribe has a 4-1 edge, with a 3-2 loss the only blemish.

News and Notes
- Chaney Manganello's winning shot on Sunday accomplished three significant way-markers for the Tribe this season.  It clinched the 10th win of the year for W&M, its first 10-win season since 2006.  The win also clinched a winning season for the first time since 2006.  Finally, it clinched a spot in the CAA Championships for the first time since 2008.

- Among the 15 returning field players who have recorded either a goal or an assist, 10 have set career-highs in goals scored, 12 in assists, and 12 in total points scored.

- W&M has 40 assists through the first 14 matches of the year, just one helper shy of the school-record of 41 assists set back in 1991.  The Tribe is also scoring 8.71 points per game, nearly 1.5 ppg better than the school record of 7.45 established in 2000.  If W&M keeps up its scoring pace over the next five games (four in the regular season, at least one in the CAA tournament), it will set school records of 165 points and 55 assists, as well as 55 goals (which would rank fifth).

- Pip Saunders was named the CAA Rookie of the Week on Oct. 2, after scoring a goal and an assist over the weekend.  She helped on the first of Emma Clifton's two goals against Delaware on Friday night, and then scored the then-tying goal against Richmond on Sunday.

- W&M has opened conference play against Northeastern every year since 2007, a six-year span that is the longest such-streak in school history.  The Tribe played Radford four years in a row from 1985-88, and VCU four years as well from 1991-94.  The six times playing the Huskies in the conference opener is also second-most overall, behind only the seven times that W&M has taken on VCU.

- By splitting the first conference weekend, the Tribe has opened league play at 1-1 or better 26 times in 28 years.  The shutout over Hofstra also improved W&M to 7-2 all-time after losing its conference opener.

- The 4-0 win over Delaware was the fifth shutout of the year for W&M.  The last time the Tribe had four shutouts or more was 2006, when W&M carried six blank-sheets.

- The Tribe swept the CAA weekly awards on Sept. 18, with senior captain Maria Caro sharing Player of the Week honors and redshirt-freshman Cate Johnson being named Rookie of the Week.  Caro scored two game-winning goals, against Miami and then-No. 11 Boston University, while Johnson was credited with the win in both matches and stopped 92.9% of the shots made against her.

- Christine Johnson was named the CAA co-Player of the Week on Aug. 28, after scoring four goals and a defensive save to lead her team to a 5-1 win over Davidson.  Johnson is the seventh player in school history to score four goals in a single game, and the first since Katie Silverthorne '02 in 2001.  She is the first Tribe player to be named the conference Player of the Week since October of 2007.