CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. --- After a pair of home matches, the Chattanooga women's soccer team is taking its four-game win streak on the road to Middle Tennessee in Murfreesboro Thursday evening.
 
The game is set to kick off at 7:00 p.m. at Hays Track and Soccer Stadium on the Blue Raiders' campus. Links for live stats and video streaming on ESPN+ are available online at GoMocs.com on the women's soccer schedule page.
 
GAME DAY INFORMATION
Mocs at Middle Tennessee
Time: 7:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Site: Murfreesboro, Tenn. | Hays Track and Soccer Stadium
Follow the action online at GoMocs.com. Links for live stats and video streaming on ESPN+ are available online at GoMocs.com.
 
SERIES HISTORY
The Mocs and Blue Raiders have met just four times, all in the 1990s. Chattanooga won the first meeting between the two in the opening season by a 3-2 margin at Hixson High School. The two programs met again, this time in Murfreesboro and battled to a 1-1 tie. In 1998, UTC's first season at Finley Stadium, MTSU came away with a 1-0 victory. However, the Mocs responded with a 2-0 shutout in 1999 on the road.
 
LAST TIME THEY MET
UTC's Mary Lauren Mesich came off the bench to score a header, assisted by Tiffin Ashworth for the first goal of the match in the 49th minute. That would prove to be the game winner. Gretchen Cross added an insurance goal in the 79th minute from Barbara Wallace in the box. The Mocs outshot MTSU 16-10 with Ashworth, Cross and Charlene Shaughnessy each with three. The Raiders had nine corners to the Mocs two and the Mocs' Rawlslyn Ray recorded five saves in the shutout.
 
LAST TIME OUT
Chattanooga 3, Jacksonville State 1 - Finley Stadium
Jacksonville State took the lead with a goal in the 22nd minute. It would be almost the rest of the half before Chattanooga tied it up. In the 41st minute, the Mocs scored off a corner kick. Birna Johannsdottir lined up the corner shot and sent it into the box. Caroline Richvalsky rose up inside the box and headed it home to tie it up. It wouldn't take long, however, for the game winner. It would be Richvalsky again on an assist from Betha Pucek from the left. Richvalsky made one defender miss and booted it in from the penalty line. She wasn't done. Mackenzie Smith's shot was blocked inside the 18-yard box and Richvalsky picked it right in front of the net for her first hat trick.
 
RICHVALSKY NAMED SOCON AND TENNESSEE SPORTS WRITERS PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Caroline Richvalsky earned Southern Conference and Tennessee Sports Writers Association Player of the Week honors for all games played August 28-September 3. She scored nine points on four goals and one assist. She had the game winner against Austin Peay and assisted on another in the home-opening win. On Sunday, she recorded her first hat trick in a 3-1 win over Jacksonville State.
 
RICHVALSKY RECORDS HAT TRICK IN 3-1 WIN OVER JSU
Sophomore forward Caroline Richvalsky recorded a hat trick in the Mocs 3-1 win against Jacksonville State on September 3 at Finley Stadium. She headed in the first goal on a corner then fired off a shot inside the box for the second, both late in the first half. She picked up a save that deflected off a keeper save inside the box.