VESTAL, N.Y. - Winners of six of their last seven, Binghamton women's soccer looks to keep its momentum going when the first-place Bearcats (8-5-1, 4-1 America East) travel to Long Island to face two-time reigning conference champion Stony Brook (5-7-1, 2-3 AE) Thursday. The teams will kick-off at 5 p.m. at LaValle Stadium in a rematch of last spring's America East championship game, won by the Seawolves (1-0).

Binghamton has won three in a row and moved into a first-place tie with UMass Lowell with four regular season games remaining. In their last outing on Sunday, the Bearcats rallied past host NJIT 2-1 in double overtime on a goal from freshman Peyton Gilmore. Sophomore midfielder Victoria McKnight drew the assist - her league-leading fourth of the fall. Freshman midfielder Maria Poulos scored BU's first goal of the game - her first collegiate tally. Poulos took a lateral pass from classmate Alex Marsteller and struck a rising shot from 22 yards that skimmed off an NJIT defender's head and carried into the top left corner to even the game midway through the first half. 

Junior forward Maya Anand leads the Bearcats with six goals and 15 points. Junior midfielder Olivia McKnight has four goals and 10 points. Senior keeper Haylee Poltorak has five shutouts and a 0.82 goals against average. 

Stony Brook was picked to win the title again this fall but has stumbled of late. The Seawolves put together a four-game win streak in mid-September and won their first two conference games by a combined 5-1 score. But since, the team has dropped three straight: at NJIT (1-0), at home to New Hampshire (3-0) and at Maine in their last outing on Sunday, 4-1. The two most recent lopsided losses are the first time since 2005 that Stony Brook has dropped back-to-back games by three or more goals. Coincidentally, it was the Bearcats (and UMBC) that pinned successive 3-0 losses on that 2005 Seawolves squad. 

The Seawolves have one of the most dangerous scoring threats in the conference in Alyssa Francese, who has six goals this season. In goal, Emerson Richmond Burke has three shutouts and a 1.58 goals against average. Stony Brook has been outscored 16-6 in the second half this fall. 

Binghamton will have to reverse history to get a positive result. The Bearcats have never won at Lavalle Stadium (0-10) and since both programs joined the America East in 2001, Stony Brook holds a commanding 15-3-3 lead head-to-head. Binghamton last won in 2017, posting a 1-0 home victory. The last two games on Long Island resulted in lopsided losses in 2016 (3-0) and 2018 (4-0).