ST. PAUL, Minn. - This week, Concordia-St. Paul (3-4) returns to the field in the friendly confines of the Concordia Dome at Sea Foam Stadium, playing host to the University of Wisconsin-Stout (0-2) on Tuesday at 7 p.m. before heading on the road to face Northern Michigan (4-2) on Friday at 4 p.m. (CDT) in Marquette, Michigan to open GLIAC play.

STREAMING INFORMATION
Concordia's home game on Tuesday will be streamed, free of charge, on the NSIC Network powered by HUDL and BlueFrame with play-by-play from the voice of the Golden Bears, Dan Flanagan.

Friday's game and likely the remainder of the conference season for women's lacrosse, GLIAC fans can sign up for an annual subscription to FloSports at https://flosports.link/3oPmh5x. Also, anyone who subscribes using a GLIAC member institution domain (.edu) e-mail address will be eligible for an additional discounted subscription rate. GLIAC member institutions will share more information about these plans directly with students, staff, and fans. Any subscription provides access to the entire award-winning FloSports platform that also includes over 25 vertical sports categories including combat sports, motorsports, cheerleading, hockey, rugby, track-and-field/cross-country and more. FloSports is available on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire and Chromecast.

For more information regarding the GLIAC partnership with FloSports, visit: https://flosports.link/3oPmh5x

BUY TICKETS TO HOME GAMES ONLINE
Fans are encouraged to buy tickets in advance and bring your QR code to the gates to skip the line! Friends and families who utilize the pass list will also be utilizing the online ticketing service while all students, faculty & staff will access their free CSP tickets through the service. Fans do not need to create a login, remember a username or password or download an app to purchase tickets, and tickets can still be purchased with cash at the gates. Find out more in the partnership announcement between CSP Athletics and HomeTown Ticketing.

DOWNLOAD THE APP
Fans can download the CSP Bears fan app, free of charge and available in the App Store or on Google Play. The app contains rosters, schedules, scores, stats, news, social media and more! Customize your options to get notifications to your favorite teams, as well. Search "CSP Bears" in the app store to stay up-to-date on Golden Bear athletics.

LAST TIME OUT: CSP SPLITS IN FLORIDA
The Golden Bears put up 19 goals in the program's second-ever shutout victory, joining their inaugural performance (23-0) against Northland College in 2017 at home. CSP's first-ever road shutout came at Warner University in Lake Whales, Florida and was highlighted by every player either scoring or assisting during the game as 16 different players netted goals including two each from Lauren Sheets, Sara Kaiser and Laurelle Weisbrod. Sheets and Susie Monson each had three points, with Sheets adding an assists while Monson had a goal and two assists.

Goalies Candace McDole and Maddy Huebner combined for the shutout with McDole picking up three saves and Huebner four.

Concordia then faced #10 Rollins College, falling 19-6 as Sheets, Kaiser and Kayleigh Nelson each scored a pair of goals while McDole secured five saves and Huebner eight against a Rollins attack that threw together 45 shots in the contest.

SERIES HISTORY
The Golden Bears and Blue Devils will meet for the first time as UW-Stout is in its first year fielding a varsity NCAA Division III lacrosse program.

Concordia and Northern Michigan will meet for an 11th time this Friday, with CSP having played NMU and Davenport a program-record 10 times since founding lacrosse in 2017. Concordia has defeated NMU seven times (7-3), the most of any team since opening the program. After beating the Wildcats six-straight times from 2017 to 2019, NMU rallied with three-straight wins in 2021 and 2022 before Concordia picked up a 13-10 win last April on the road.

The Golden Bears are 4-2 in away games at NMU and 5-3 against the Wildcats in GLIAC competition.

Four of the meetings have been decided by three goals or less and the last four contests have all been decided by five goals or less.

ABOUT THE GOLDEN BEARS
Armed with six starting freshmen and four sophomores, the Golden Bears boast a young and dynamic roster with a solid veteran presence from senior goalie Candace McDole, junior goalie Maddy Huebner and junior attack Taylor Preece, who have all contributed as starters and key contributors.

Freshman Lauren Sheets leads Concordia with 21 goals and 24 points while freshman Susie Monson has 12 points with nine goals and freshman Kayleigh Nelson has 10 points with five goals and five assists. Concordia has six players who have reached at least five points on the year, all of them being freshmen.

Sheets is 19th in the country with her 21 goals, while her goals and points (24) are GLIAC-highs. Meanwhile, Monson is the team's top performer on the draw with 22 draw controls, ranking sixth in the conference in draw controls per game (3.14).

Defensively, freshman Claire Flahaven has been the top disruptor with 12 caused turnovers, five more than anyone else on the roster, while adding 16 ground balls, second most on the team and one shy off the team-high. She leads the GLIAC in caused turnovers per game (1.71) and is third in the league in ground balls per game (2.29).

Concordia senior goalie Candace McDole, who has compiled over 600 career saves in her collegiate career including statistics from Edinboro University, continues to be a force in the cage. She is 22nd in the country with 53 saves and third in the conference with a .438 save percentage while leading the league with 2.83 ground balls per game with a team-high 17 on the year.

ABOUT THE BLUE DEVILS
UW-Stout is in its first year fielding an NCAA Division III program, dropping its first two games on the road in the Twin Cities 17-8 at Augsburg and 17-3 at Hamline. They'll face their first six games on the road before finally getting a home inaugural game on April 1 against UW-Eau Claire.

Mai Nou Vang leads the team with five goals with Ally Crymble adding four, accounting for nine of the team's 10 goals. Vang and Abby Todey lead the team with four ground balls while Crymble (7) and Megan Copeland (6) lead the team in draw controls. Todey also has a team-high four draw controls followed by Crymble's three.

Tessa Bailey handles the net, registering 31 saves in two games (15.5/game) with a .470 save percentage.

ABOUT THE WILDCATS
Northern Michigan jumped out to a 4-0 start to the season with wins over Missouri Western (16-13), Concordia-Ann Arbor (21-0), Lewis (15-8) and Quincy (15-4) before stumbling with losses at Maryville (21-11) and at Rockhurst (16-9).

Through six games, Minnie Bittell has a team-high 20 points (16g, 4a) while Katelyn Mongold and Maddi Bast lead the team with 17 goals apiece. Kaitlyn Bridger has also added 18 points (13g, 5a).

Bittell (18), Bast (17) and Mongold (12) contribute to the team's 88 draw controls, outpacing their opponents by an 88-66 margin.

Hannah Melander leads the goalies with six starts, producing 54 saves and a .470 save percentage.