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San Diego Spirit Game Plan vs. Atlanta

May 29, 2003 - Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA)
San Diego Spirit News Release


OPPONENTS' NOTES:

* Rookie forward Maribel Dominguez leads the team and ranks second in the league in scoring with six goals and three assists for 15 points. Dominguez has notched at least one point in five of the Beat's seven matches this season.

* Rookie Abby Crumpton ranks 4th in scoring with two goals and two assists for six points.

* Charmaine Hooper ranks second on the team in scoring with 11 points off three goals and five assists. Her five assists are tied for the league lead with Carolina's Danielle Fotopoulos.

* Scurry is second all-time in WUSA victories with 22. Scurry leads the league in goals against average (0.57) and save percentage (86.7).

* Atlanta owns the league's best road record all-time 11-8-4 (.565).

THE OUTLOOK

The Spirit, who has the league's longest unbeaten streak, takes on the Atlanta Beat for the first time at home this season after a 1-1 tie at Herndon Stadium on May 10. The Beat is perhaps the most talented team in the WUSA with national team players at almost every position. Still, Atlanta would not be doing as well had they not received an unexpected boost from Mexican international Maribel Dominguez, who is one of the leading scorers in the league early in the season. The crafty, shifty and speedy Dominguez scored her team's lone goal, albeit a soft one, in the draw between the two teams in Atlanta. The Beat throw two of the strongest players in the world at the Spirit in 5-foot-11 U.S. international Cindy Parlow, who is coming off a four-goal performance against England on May 17, and Canadian captain Charmaine Hooper, known throughout the league, and the world, for her aggressive play. The Beat also have two of the world's most creative midfielders in Japanese captain Homare Sawa and former U.S. Olympian Nikki Serlenga, a San Diego native. Both are remarkably skillful and can shoot and score from distance. In the back, the Beat has some rock-hard defenders in Canadian Sharolta Nonen, and Kylie Bivens, one of the best Americans not in the regular rotation for the U.S. Women's National Team. Bivens was suspended for the Beat's match last week after getting a red card the week before, but will be ready to go against the Spirit. In goal, the Beat has one of the world's best goalkeepers in U.S. international Briana Scurry, who has proved almost impossible to beat during the first two-plus WUSA seasons. Spirit forward Julie Fleeting managed a goal against her on a header in the 1-1 draw and the Spirit will be looking for more scoring from the Scottish international after losing Shannon MacMillan for the season to a knee injury.

2003 INDIVIDUAL SPIRIT STREAKS FLEETING...has a goal in 4 of 5 games...has multi-pts in 4 of 5 games...has a point in 5 games...has an assist in 1 game...has a goal in 2 of 3 road games...has points in 3 road games. FOUDY...has a goal in 1 game...has multi-pts. In 1 game... has an assist in 1 of 3 games...has a point in 2 of 3 games. PAGLIARULO ... is unbeaten in 5 games...has won 1 game ZHANG...has an assist in 1 game...has points in 1 game.

RECORDS WITHIN REACH Consecutive Games with a Point - Fleeting, 5 - needs 1 to set team record.

STAT BREAKDOWN Spirit Beat
GOALS FOR: 10 17
GOALS AGAINST: 7 4
SHOTS: 96 90
LEADING SCORER: Fleeting, 9 pts. Dominguez, 15
pts. STREAK: Won 1, UB 6 Won 2

SPIRIT QUICK SHOTS...A victory would:
* Put San Diego three games over the .500 mark for the first time.
* Give San Diego a club record seven-game unbeaten streak.
* Even the all-time series at 3-3-2.
* Give San Diego a three-game home-unbeaten streak.



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