WASHINGTON – The top-seeded Georgetown University women's soccer team (19-0-3) will host the Duke Blue Devils (16-3-2) in the third round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament on Sunday. Kickoff is scheduled for 11 a.m. at Shaw Field. Live stats and a live video stream, with Monika Moore calling the play-by-play, will be available at www.GUHoyas.com.

This is the seventh-straight NCAA Tournament appearance for the Hoyas, who ranked second in the nation in the final United Soccer Coaches poll, and their eighth appearance in the last nine years, all coming under Head Coach Dave Nolan. Georgetown finished the season with an RPI of 4 in the most recent report and earned one of four of the top seeds in the tournament. Stanford, who is ranked No. 1 in the country, Florida State and North Carolina rounded out the other top-seeded teams in the bracket of 64 teams.

The unbeaten Hoyas shut out Washington State on Friday in the second round 1-0 at the George Washington Mount Vernon Athletic Complex, which was relocated due to inclement weather. Junior Meaghan Nally (Herndon, Va. / South Lakes) scored the lone goal for the Blue & Gray in the 10th minute off of a penalty kick taken by sophomore Grace Nguyen (Lilburn, Ga. / Parkview). Senior goalkeeper Arielle Schechtman (Del Mar, Calif. / La Jolla Country Day / UCLA) tallied her 14th clean sheet of the season with the victory. The Hoya defense held the Cougars to a total of five shots.

In the first round of the NCAA Tournament, Georgetown defeated Central Connecticut State 3-1 on Shaw Field. The Hoyas were down 1-0 at the half but scored three late goals in the second half to bounce back and advance to the next round.  

Georgetown finished the BIG EAST conference 8-0-1 and clinched its third-consecutive BIG EAST Championship title as well as the BIG EAST Regular Season Championship title for the second year in a row. The Hoyas became the first team in the league to three-peat since Notre Dame (1995-2001) and claimed the conference's automatic berth into the tournament. The Blue & Gray claimed four of the major BIG EAST awards and six players made the All-BIG EAST Team. Senior Caitlin Farrell (Wallingford, Conn. / Choate Rosemary Hall) was named the BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Year, Nally was named the BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year and Schechtman was named the BIG EAST Goalkeeper of the Year for the second year in a row. Georgetown Head Coach Dave Nolan and his coaching staff were named the BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year. Junior Paula Germino-Watnick (Chevy Chase, Md. / Bethesda-Chevy Chase) joined Farrell, Nally and Schechtman on the All-BIG EAST First Team and graduate student Kyra Carusa (San Diego, Calif. / Del Norte / Stanford) and Nguyen were named to the second team.
 
Farrell is one of three Hoyas who have started all 22 games this season. She leads the squad with 37 points from 17 goals and three assists. She has recorded at least one point in 13 of the last 15 games. Carusa has also started all 22 games this season and comes in second on the team with 25 points made up of eight goals and nine assists. Schechtman has allowed just six goals in 20 games at net. The senior registers a .290 GAA, 71 saves and a .922 save percentage.

The Blue Devils hold a record of 16-3-2 and finished the ACC Conference 8-1-1. Duke is ranked ninth in the United Soccer Coaches Poll and received a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Blue Devils shut out both of their opponents in the first two rounds of the tournament, including a 1-0 clean sheet against Rutgers in the first round. On Friday, the squad defeated Lipscomb 3-0 in the second round at the GW Mount Vernon Complex.

Senior Kayla McCoy leads the Blue Devils with 31 points from 12 goals and seven assists and has scored a goal in each round of the tournament so far. Senior Taylor Racioppi joins McCoy on the front line with 20 points from nine goals and a pair of helpers. Redshirt sophomore Brooke Heinsohn has allowed 14 goals in 21 games at net and registers a .660 GAA, 58 saves and a .806 save percentage.

Sunday's game will be the second all-time meeting between the two schools. Earlier this season, then-No. 15 Georgetown hosted then-No. 11 Duke at Shaw Field in GU's home opener, which resulted in a scoreless tie.

After Sunday's game, the Georgetown men's soccer team will play at Shaw Field at 2 p.m. to take on West Virginia in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Tickets for both games are available on WeAreGeorgetown.com/tickets.