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No. 9 Cougars Set to Host Oregon Thursday

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Soccer kicks off homecoming Thursday night at Lower Soccer Field.

#9 WASHINGTON STATE (8-0-0, 1-0-0 Pac-12)
vs Oregon (7-1-1, 1-0-0 Pac-12) | Thur., Sept. 27 | 7 p.m.
  Watch Live | Pac-12 Networks   (Elise Woodward [Commentator])
  Live Statistics | WSUCougars.com

OPENING XI
> Washington State enters the weekend unbeaten on the year having won a record 8-straight, setting the program record for consecutive wins in a season and to start a season. 
> WSU is one of just 2 teams in DI, and the only Pac-12 team, still unbeaten and untied in 2018. There are 7 teams without a loss in Division I soccer.
> WSU enters the week ranked #9 in the coaches poll, the first time the Cougs have ever been ranked in the top-10. The team is #8 in TopDrawerSoccer and #5 in SoccerAmerica.
> The Cougars are unbeaten in the last six games against Oregon.
> WSU swept the Pac-12 weekly awards after shutting out UCLA - Morgan Weaver (Offense), Aaqila McLyn (Defense), Rachel Thompson (Goalkeeper).
> Cougs RPI sits at 27 entering the week.
> Maddy Haro leads the nation in assists/game (1.00).
> Morgan Weaver enters the weekend tied for No. 6 all-time in career goals scored with 21. She is tied for fourth in the Pac-12 in scoring.
> Nine different Cougars have scored the team's 19 goals on the year with six different game-winning scorers.
> WSU is 4th in the Pac-12 and 29th in the nation in scoring (2.38 gpg) entering the game
> Defensively, WSU is 3rd in the Pac-12 and 19th in the nation in goals against average at 0.50.

WSU RANKED #9
For the first time in program history the Cougars cracked the top-10 of the United Soccer Coaches poll as WSU enters the week ranked #9 in the country. WSU's previous best ranking was in 1993 when the team checked in at #11 in their first time ranked. The seven week stretch ranked in the coaches poll is the longest run by the Cougars in program history, the previous best was five-straight weeks.
In the two other polls the Cougs have garnered even more recognition as they sit at #8 in TopDrawerSoccer and #5 in SoccerAmerica.

RECORD START FOR WSU
For the first time in program history the Cougars have started a season 8-0-0 breaking their record from 2015. The 2015 season was a record-breaking season for WSU as the Cougars won an all-time high 14 games and finished third in the Pac-12 in head coach Todd Shulenberger's first year in Pullman. 
In addition to the record start, the Cougars' eight-straight wins set the record for the program's longest single-season win-streak, breaking the record of seven-straight done twice prior.
WSU's longest win streak spanning multiple seasons is 10 games from Oct.14, 1990 to Sept. 11, 1991.

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