The Colorado College Tigers wrap up a two match road trip in El Paso as they take on the UTEP Miners Thursday night. The Tigers hold first place in the Mountain West, starting the conference schedule 4-0-1 with wins over Hawaii, UC Davis, New Mexico at home, also with a road draw at Nevada and a road win at San Jose State.

LAST TIME OUT
Colorado College got off to the best start to a game this season vs the Spartans of San Jose State on Sunday, winning a road match for the first time this season. CC scored in just the fourth minute of play after earning an early corner kick. Taylor Mentink did the honors in front, heading home a beautiful set piece from Charlotte Strabel who took the corner for the Tigers first strike of the game. Just minutes later, it was a broken play that got the Tigers their second of the first ten minutes. Tyler Rose found a way into the area and let a shot go that rang off the inside of the right post, the rebound would trickle out to Kendall Memoly who would tap it home for her first goal of the season. After the two quick strikes, the Tigers were able to be more conservative. CC didn't take many risks the rest of the way, as they tried to make it easy on their defense as Regan Wallace provided six saves in the 2-0 shutout. Wallace was named the Mountain West Defensive Player of the Week after a perfect week. She shutout both the Spartans and the University of New Mexico Lobos making six saves in each game. The Tigers, winners of two straight and four of their last five, have scored twice in all five of their last five matches.

ABOUT UTEP
Zeta McDannels leads the charge for UTEP as she sits at an impressive seven goals on the season which is four more than Anai Lopez, who has the second most on the roster. Overall, UTEP has scored 20 goals on the season, they have scored in every game but one so far on the season. The lone exception was a 0-0 draw at Abilene Christian on August 23rd. Savanah Finley is the expected starter in goal for UTEP, as she has played all but 14:19 of the season in net for the Miners. Finley has allowed just nine goals on the year, saving 43 chances by opposing attackers. Finley has five shutouts, with another combined shutout out on the season. Gibbs Keeton is the bench boss for the Miners in his fourth season in El Paso. Prior to UTEP Keeton was the Associate Head Coach at Texas Tech where he was on staff dating back to 2009.

SERIES HISTORY
The Tigers face the Miners for the eighth time this week, as they look to even the series currently 3-4 all time.

HOW TO FOLLOW ALONG
Saturday's match will be broadcast on the MW+. Live statistics can be found online at CCTigers.com, while live updates will also be provided on the team's official X page at @CCWSoccer.

UP NEXT
Colorado College will be back at home next week when they welcome Wyoming to the Springs for a 5 pm kickoff on Saturday, Oct. 24th at Stewart Field.