GREENVILLE, S.C. (Oct. 9, 2025) – Just four games remain in the 2025 regular season for the ETSU women's soccer team, and they travel to Greenville for their highest-stakes game yet this season when they visit the Furman Paladins on Friday. The matchup pits ETSU's SoCon-leading defense against Furman's top-ranked scoring offense as well as the second and third-highest ranked SoCon teams in the RPI: ETSU at 93, and Furman at 104.
MATCHUP: ETSU (8-2-4, 3-0-2) at Furman (8-2-3, 2-1-2)
DATE: October 10, 2025, 7:00pm
VENUE: Eugene Stone III Soccer Stadium (Greenville, SC)
LIVE STATS: StatBroadcast
LIVE VIDEO: ESPN+
The Buccaneers are level on points with Samford atop the SoCon with four crucial matchups left in the season, including the Bucs facing fourth-place Furman, third-place Western Carolina, and the Bulldogs in order over the next nine days.
Reagan Fitzgerald remains the SoCon's top goal scorer with nine and is tied for tenth-most in a career at ETSU with 16. She is also tied for the overall points lead in the SoCon with Chattanooga's Caroline Richvalsky at 21. Fitzgerald is 14th in the nation in total goals and leads the country with six game-winners.
Defensively, ETSU remains stout, leading the SoCon in goals against average (0.786) while ranking 53rd in Division I. Goalkeeper
Addison Yelton has a 0.701 GAA, leading the SoCon and the 39th-best number nationally. She has six shutouts in 2025, already tying her with Anna Yancey for sixth-most in a career at ETSU and third-most in a single season, one behind Shu Ohba's 2021 mark and two back of
Ashton Blair's school record eight set in 2023.
Furman is the league's top per-game scoring team with an average of 2.15 goals per game, 44th in Division I. The Paladins are led by juniors Maddie Massey and Norah Roller with five goals apiece while grad student Emma Sexton has four. Goalkeeper Reese DeJong, a SoCon All-Freshman selection last year, leads the league with a .831 save percentage and ranks third with a 0.880 goals against average.
This is the 22nd meeting between ETSU and Furman in women's soccer. The Paladins have dominated the all-time series 18-2-1, winning in Johnson City last season and again on a neutral field at the SoCon tournament in Birmingham. ETSU has not beaten Furman at Stone Stadium and took their first ever road point against the Paladins on September 21, 2023, when
Ashton Blair kept ETSU's first ever clean sheet in Greenville with a 0-0 draw.
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