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SALT LAKE CITY – The Westminster College women's soccer team wraps up the 2013 regular season with a Sunday game against Carroll (Mont.) at Dumke Field. The game will begin at 2 p.m. MDT with the five Griffin seniors being recognized prior to the start.

The game will be carried live on Griffins TV and Comcast 6 in northern Utah. There will also be live stats available for the game. Links for all of the live features can be found in the calendar section of WestminsterGriffins.com.

GRIFFIN NOTEBOOK
Westminster enters the final game at 7-7-2 on the season and 2-1-2 in Frontier Conference games. The Griffins are 4-2-2 over the past eight games after a 3-5 start to the season. They have a 6-3 mark at Dumke Field in 2013 and they have won five of the last seven home contests.

The Griffins offense is averaging 1.5 goals per game while adding an assist on 13 of their 24 goals. Over the past eight games they are scoring 1.75 goals per game with three multiple-goal games. Westminster averages 13.9 shots per games with 53.8 percent of them on goal.

Westminster opponents have scored 14 goals with seven assists for an average of 0.88 goals per game. The Griffins have surrendered 11 of those goals after halftime with 54 of the 108 shot attempts coming after intermission. Westminster goalies have recorded 45 saves with a .763 save percentage.

AGAINST THE OPPOSITION
Carroll leads the all-time series 9-3-3 after the two teams played to a 1-1 draw earlier this month in Helena. The Griffins are 3-1-2 in games played at Dumke Field in the series and they haven't lost to Carroll at home since 2008. Westminster won last year's game in SLC, 2-0.

LOOKING BACK
The Griffins surrendered a 1-0 halftime lead to lose at home to Rocky Mountain (Mont.), 2-1. Jessica Harris scored her career-best fourth goal of the season in the 22nd minute. Sadie Young notched her first assist of the year on the play. Rocky Mountain used an own goal from the Griffins in the 50th minute and then a strike by Evelina Aberg in the 54th minute for the win.

GET THEM FIRST & EARLY
In 13 of the 16 games that Westminster has played this season the team that scored first went on to win. The only time the team that scored first lost was on Sunday with the two other times the team hadn't won ending in a tie. Westminster is 7-1 when they score first and 0-6-2 when the opponent scores first. The Griffins are also 4-1 when leading at halftime and 6-1 when leading or tied at the 75-minute mark.

For the season, Westminster has outscored the opposition 13-3 during the first half of games. They also have a 103-54 edge in first half shots and 33-22 advantage in first half corner kicks.

CARTER GETTING HOT
After scoring only one goal through the first eight games of the year, Nicole Carter has come on with five goals in the past eight contests. She leads the team with six goals and is tops in the conference with three game-winning goals. The Griffins are 5-0-1 in games that Carter scores. She has taken 25 shots with 16 on goal and she scores on 24 percent of her shot attempts.

POINTS FROM TUCKER
Senior Lexi Tucker leads the team with four assists while also scoring three goals for 10 points. The team is 3-0 in games that Tucker scores and also 2-0 when she records an assist. Tucker has taken a team-best 37 shots during the year with 22 of them on goal. She has tallied two game-winners on the season.

CAREER HIGH FOR HARRIS
Senior Jessica Harris is second on the team with a career-high four goals this season. She opened the year with a double in the season-opener against Jamestown and then snapped a 190-minute scoring drought by the Griffins when she scored at St. Francis (Ill.). She also scored the first goal on the team's loss to Rocky Mountain last week. Harris entered the season with four career goals and only one since the start of the 2011 campaign.

MINER ANCHORS THE MIDFIELD
Junior Miranda Miner is the anchor of the Griffin midfield. After leading the team with 1,640 minutes played in 2012, Miner has played a team-high 1,364 minutes this season. She has yet to miss a game during her three seasons as a Griffin, appearing in all 54 games the team has played with 50 starts. After scoring her first career goal against Great Falls (Mont.) in Sept., Miner scored at Rocky Mountain to earn the team a 1-1 draw.

YANKE COMING ON STRONG
After sitting out the first eight games of the season, Abi Yanke has started the past nine games in goal going 4-3-2 with four shutouts. She has been named the Frontier's Defensive Player of the Week three times and has a 0.74 goals-against-average to rank 15th in the NAIA while also making 28 saves. Yanke had a stretch of 356 minutes without allowing a goal snapped in the loss to Cal State San Marcos.

FOLLOWING THE GRIFFINS
To keep up with all of the latest news and information about the Westminster women's soccer team, fans are encouraged to "Like" the Griffins on Facebook and follow them on Twitter. And as always, make sure to visit WestminsterGriffins.com for all things Griffins during the 2013 season.

LOOKING AHEAD
Westminster will travel to Billings, Mont. for the Unaffiliated Conference Tournament on Nov. 7-9. The Griffins won't know the date and opponent of their first game until Nov. 3.