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Erica Mincher

Starting Again...

Senior tri-captain midfielder Erica Mincher (Waterford, NY/Shenendehowa), who scored in Monday's 2-1 loss to nationally-ranked Central Florida, is the only University at Buffalo women's soccer player to have started every game last year and the first four this year, a streak of 23 games. Mincher, who added two goals and three assists in her first year as a captain in 2004, last entered a game off the bench in 2003, when she played in Buffalo's 3-0 MAC playoff loss to Western Michigan.

Jenessa Banwell

Getting on the Board Early

Until Monday's game in which Central Florida scored both its goals in the first half, Buffalo had outscored opponents 5-1 in the first half, scoring three goals against Army in the first frame and two against Jacksonville.

Brooke McCalla

Freshmen Making Impact

In 2004, the Bulls had six goals in the first six games with three upperclassmen who had never scored before getting their first collegiate goals.

Through four games in 2005, the Bulls have three players who have scored their first collegiate goals, but all are freshmen. Jenessa Banwell (Toronto, Ontario/Birchmount Park), Brooke McCalla (Pickering, Ontario/Dunbarton) and Andrea Vescio (Niagara Falls, Ontario/A.N. Myer) have each scored. The three are familiar with each other, as Banwell and McCalla were teammates on the Unionville-Milliken Club which won the Ontario Cup and Vescio was a member of the Oakville Angels, one of Unionville-Milliken's biggest rivals in the tournament for the cup.

Andrea Vescio

The Final Road Trip

Buffalo plays its final two games of a season-opening six-game road trip on Friday and Sunday. This time, however, it barely has to leave Western New York before opening its home slate with Niagara on Sept. 16 at 7:00 pm. On Friday, the Bulls travel down Route 5 to play city rival Canisius (0-3) at 7:00 pm in the Demske Sports Complex before taking a road trip to the Finger Lakes Region for a Sunday game in Ithaca with Cornell (2-0).