FARGO, N.D. — The Saint Mary's University women's soccer team is back on the road on Saturday, as the Cardinals head to Fargo Shanley High School for a 3 p.m. Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game against Concordia.

The Matchup:
SMU Cardinals (0-4-0 MIAC | 0-9-0 Overall) at Concordia Cobbers (3-1-0 MIAC | 6-3-0 Overall)

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Last Action:
The Cardinals gave up a goal in the early minutes of both halves, and never recovered, falling to Gustavus 3-1 Wednesday in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game in St. Peter, Minn. … Concordia, meanwhile, has not played since last Saturday, when the Cobbers dropped a 2-1 overtime decision to St. Olaf in Moorhead, Minn. CC was scheduled to play at Augsburg on Wednesday, but the game was postponed due to weather.

SMU vs. Concordia — Their Last Meeting:
September 29, 2012: Mother Nature certainly did her part to make SMU's MIAC showdown against Concordia enjoyable, as the two teams squared off under clear blue skies and temperatures hovering in the low 70s. Unfortunately for the Cardinals, the Cobbers weren't as accommodating, as Concordia scored three goals in a 10-minute span late in the first half and cruised to a 4-0 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference victory at Ochrymowycz Field.

Up Next:
The Cardinals step out of conference play on Wednesday, as SMU hosts Loras in a 7 p.m. nonconference game at Ochrymowycz Field. … Concordia is off until next Saturday, when the Cobbers travel to St. Paul, Minn., for a 1:30 p.m. nonconference game against Hamline.

Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:
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Saturday's game against Concordia is the second straight road game for the Cardinals. … Kelli Harstad (Hampton, Minn.) recorded her first collegiate goal against Gustavus Wednesday, while Megan Nitzsche () collected the assist for her first collegiate point. … Bethany Schmidt (Sparta, Wis.) — who led the team in scoring a year ago — Caroline Blackwood (Norwalk, Ohio) and Katie Holmes (Edina, Minn.) share the team's goal-scoring lead with Harstad. … Katie Nicoson (Fairmont, Minn.) and Emma Schaefer (Falcon Heights, Minn.) have also notched their first collegiate points this season with assists on Schmidt's and Blackwood's goals, respectively. … Aubrie Cornell (Holts Summit, Mo.) posted a career-high seven saves in SMU's loss to Gustavus last Wednesday. … Cornell enters Saturday's game against Concordia owning a team-leading 2.40 goals-against-average. … Fellow goalkeeper Miranda Halling (Rochester, Minn.) — who led the MIAC in saves a year ago — has stopped a team-leading 35 shots in four starts this season. … Halling, who has made 22 saves in her last two starts, has recorded 10 or more saves 11 times in her three-year collegiate career. …  Three of SMU's four goals have come in the second half. Holmes' goal against Luther on Sept. 25 was the Cardinals' first, first-half goal of the season — and just the second of SMU's last 101goals to be scored before halftime. … On the flip side, 19 of the 30 goals surrendered by SMU this season have come after halftime.

Scouting The Concordia Cobbers:
2013 Roster | 2013 Statistics | 2013 Schedule
The Cobbers' 2-1 double-overtime loss to St. Olaf last Saturday snapped their four-game winning streak — it was also CC's first conference setback since the start of the 2012 season. … Last Saturday's game vs. St. Olaf was also the first OT game of the season for Concordia. … Elizabeth Robinson scored her fifth goal of the season to account for Concordia's lone tally vs. St. Olaf. It was Robinson's third goal in the last two games. … With her second-half tally Robinson moved into a tie for the team lead in goals (5) with Marta Prosinski. … Robinson, Prosinski and Emily Wendorff — who has netted four goals through nine games — have accounted for all 14 of the Cobbers goals this season. … Robinson also owns a team-best 12 points, while sharing the team's assist lead (2) with Rochelle Hickerson, Gina Weiss and Baylie Young. … Elizabeth Bitzan has played every minute of the Cobbers' nine games in goal, compiling a 0.88 goals-against-average and an .814 save percentage. … Bitzen, who has stopped 35 of the 43 shots she's faced, also owns a pair of shutouts. … Concordia has scored more than two goals just once this season — beating St. Scholastica 3-0 on Sept. 7. … Four of the Cobbes' six wins have been decided by one goal. On the flip side, both of CC's losses were also one-goal affairs — 2-1 losses to Augustana and St. Olaf.  … Saturday's game against Saint Mary's at Fargo Shanley H.S. is the second neutral-site game of the season for Concordia, which beat UW-Stevens Point 1-0 at St. Thomas on Sept. 1.