The Westminster women’s soccer team will play two NCAA Division I opponents in exhibition games at Dumke Field this weekend. Westminster faces Weber State in a 5 p.m. game on Friday before welcoming Idaho State to town on Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
The games will count for Weber State and Idaho State.
Tickets for both games are available now on Westminster's website. Both games will be carried live on the new Griffins TV portal available through Stretch Internet. There will also be live stats available for the two games.
The Griffins enter the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference in 2015 as they are in the first year of the NCAA Division II membership process. The team returns 17 players from a 2014 squad that finished 15-4-2 and advanced to the NAIA National Championships.
Rylei North returns after scoring a school-record 16 goals last season. North is the Westminster all-time leader in goals (26) and points (55). The senior took 83 shots with 54 on goal last season, and she finished 18th in the NAIA with five game-winning goals.
Westminster also returns Megan Molumby and Maddie Lewis to a backline to help the team recording a 0.70 goals-against-average last season. The duo led all field players in minutes played, and they were on the field for 93.1 percent of the total minutes played by the team. Lewis has played in 35 straight games, making 33 straight starts, and the Griffins are 22-6-5 in those starts.
Abi Yanke also returns after starting all 21 games in 2014. Yanke is the Griffins all-time leader with a 0.69 goals-against-average, and she has 23 wins and 16 shutouts in her career. Last season, Yanke went 15-4-2 with eight shutouts and .789 save percentage.
Westminster opens the regular season on Sept. 3, when it faces Hawaii Pacific in the first of three games in Hawaii to start the season.