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HACKENSACK, N.J. – After suffering a 3-0 loss last Friday at Temple to open the season, the Fairleigh Dickinson women's soccer team opens up the home slate of games when Rider comes to University Stadium for a 7 p.m. start on Thursday. 

Rider—the defending MAAC champions—is coming off a season-opening 3-2 win over Mount St. Mary's on Saturday. Kourtney Cunningham scored twice for the Broncs and was named MAAC Rookie of the Week on Monday. The Brocs are coming off a 12-6-3 season and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament—a 1-0 loss at Washington—after securing the MAAC auto-bid. 

All-time, the Broncs hold a 4-2-1 record against the Knights. Fairleigh Dickinson has the won the last two meetings—3-2 in 2014 and 2-0 in 2013—after going 0-4-1 in the first five meetings between the two programs. 

In the Knights' 3-0 loss to Temple, the Owls got goals from three different players and FDU was held to just four shots on frame.

Rachel Hoekstra (Bowmanville, Ontario/Clarington Central ) is one goal away from tying and two goals from setting the program's all-time record. Kelley Geraghty currently holds the record with 22 goals in a career. Hoekstra is also seven points from tying Geraghty's career points record of 52.

Carly Tice (Highland Falls, N.Y./James I. O'Neill ) is just one assist from tying Geraghty for seventh in program history with eight. Connie Lewis (Outer Cove, Newfoundland/Gonzaga ) and Amanda Goulet (Quebec City, Quebec/Shattuck-St. Mary's ) are tied for eighth all-time in goals with 11 and sit just three goals from the top five all-time.

The Knights were shutout for the fourth time in their last 21 games in the 3-0 loss to Temple. It also marked only the second time the Knights had given up three goals in a game in the same span.