MANKATO, Minn. – This week in Maverick Athletics features a pair of key home matches in women's soccer, while the rest of the fall sports are either idle or on the road for the week of Oct. 12-18.
The Maverick women's soccer team closes out the 2026 home slate with MSU Moorhead on Friday at 3 p.m. at The Pitch and then on Sunday, Oct. 18 at 1 p.m. versus Minnesota Crookston. The Mavericks are 11-1-1 overall and 8-1-1 in Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference play, while they are No. 7 nationally.
On the links this week, the women's golf team is competing at the UNK Central Region Preview where it enters Monday tied for sixth at +13 with a 297. The second round is scheduled for a 10 a.m. start at Meadowlark Hills Golf Club in Kearney, Neb., Monday morning with the final round scheduled for Tuesday morning.
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The Maverick men's golf team begins competition on Monday at the Newman Fall Invitational at Terradyne Country Club in Andover, Kan. Check back with msumavericks.com for recaps Monday and Tuesday.
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On Friday, Oct. 16, the aforementioned women's soccer team hosts MSU Moorhead at 3 p.m., while the men's hockey team looks for its first win of the season traveling to Merrimack (Mass.) for a pair of matches at 6 p.m. CT and then Saturday at 5 p.m. CT. The Mavericks are coming off a pair of losses to No. 7 Wisconsin last weekend in the season-opening series. MSU entered the season 19
th nationally.
Women's hockey also is on the road this week for a series at No. 2 Wisconsin in a key WCHA series. The Mavericks enter 2-2 (0-2 WCHA), while Wisconsin is 4-2 overall and 0-2 in WCHA play after being swept by Ohio State last weekend. Puck drops in the first match this weekend at 7 p.m. on Friday and a 2 p.m. drop on Saturday.
Fresh off an upset win at No. 14 Minnesota Duluth on Friday, the Mavericks continue on the road this weekend at Jamestown on Friday at 6 p.m., followed by a 2 p.m. match up on Saturday at Northern State. MSU enters at 7-12 overall and 5-6 in NSIC play.
Coming off a first-place finish at the St. Cloud Invitational, the Maverick women's swimming and diving team competes at Southwest Minnesota State and Concordia-St. Paul on Saturday, Oct. 17 at 1 p.m., in Marshall, Minn.
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