TEMPE – On Friday, Sept. 11, Sun Devil Soccer will not only close out the non-conference portion of its regular season against Grambling State at Sun Devil Soccer Stadium, but the program will also honor its eight senior student-athletes prior to the 7 p.m. MST kickoff on ESPN+.
Television
- Ryan Sykora (play-by-play) and Adrian Pelayo (analyst) will call Friday evening’s action on ESPN+, which will be available to stream on either the Disney+, ESPN or Hulu apps.
Series history
- Arizona State will look to improve on its current 2-0-0 all-time record against Grambling State when the Sun Devils square off against the Tigers this Friday.
- The previous two meetings between Arizona State and Grambling State have occurred during the 2022 and 2024 seasons with the Sun Devils winning 5-0 and 2-0, respectively, heading into the 2026 matchup.
- Kierra Blundell (79), Ella Opkvitne (50), Ella Kettles (87) and Addison Haws (34) are the only active Sun Devils to have played in either of ASU’s previous two matches against Grambling State after the quartet saw minutes during the 2024 matchup.
- In the previous two matches between the two programs, one Arizona State Sun Devil has turned in either a hat trick or brace performance.
- In 2022, Nicole Douglas recorded a hat trick – in just 20 minutes – during the first half.
- The performance is one of just 13 hat tricks in program history.
- Two years later, Keri Matthews posted a two-goal outing – in just nine minutes – throughout the second half.
- In 2022, Nicole Douglas recorded a hat trick – in just 20 minutes – during the first half.
Kicking off
- Friday’s match will represent the program’s ‘Senior Night,’ when the Sun Devils will honor Lucy Fazackerley, Peyton Marcisz, Addison Haws, Miki Hayashi, Emmie Ennis, Natalie Drotzmann, Ella Opkvitne and Izzy Monck.
- After beginning her collegiate soccer career with a two-season stint (2023-24) at East Carolina, Fazackerley has totaled 2052:55 minutes played with 11 total points (four goals, three assists) in 26 matches played as a Sun Devil.
- Much like Fazackerley, Marcisz opened her collegiate soccer career with a two-season stay (2023-24) at UCLA, before transferring to Tempe, where she’s played 2015:58 with 10 points (four assists, three goals) in 26 matches played in.
- Haws has been credited with two assists in 700 minutes played across 24 matches as a Sun Devil.
- After spending two seasons at Tyler (Texas) Junior College, Hayashi will surpass 500 minutes played as a Sun Devil the next time she steps on the pitch, marking her 11th appearance in Maroon and Gold.
- Ennis has made an immediate impact at Arizona State – after playing in 50 matches in a three-season 2023-25) career at Saint Mary’s – by earning a starting assignment in all seven matches to this point of the 2026 campaign.
- Drotzmann, like Ennis, opted to conclude her collegiate soccer career at Arizona State rather than her previous stop, San Francisco (2023-25), and has played over 600 minutes on the defensive back line in all seven matches of the 2026 season.
- Opkvitne has totaled 41 shot attempts and eight points (three goals, two assists) in over 1600 minutes played in 39 career matches as a Sun Devil.
- Monck pushed her career total to 60 matches played – 20 as a Sun Devil – earlier this season, but has remained a member of the Arizona State family after playing 1555:20 in the Maroon and Gold over the last two seasons.
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