Opening Draw: The Tigers close out the 2016 regular season when they welcome Connecticut to Unitas Stadium on Sunday, May 1. Opening draw is set for 12 p.m. and Towson Sports Network's Ben Rosenbaum will have the call of the game starting at 11:45 a.m. Links to live stats and video feed can be found on the schedule page of TowsonTigers.com. Fans can also follow the Tigers on Twitter (@Towson_WLAX) for updates.
 
Updating the Tigers: Towson will look to bounce back from a hard fought 11-9 loss to James Madison when it takes the field against the Huskies. Redshirt junior attacker Alyssa Ferro led the Tigers with three goals against the Dukes while junior midfielder Samantha Brookhart had a goal and two assists. Sophomore midfielder Kaitlyn Montalbano leads the team this season in goals (28), assists (15) and points (43). Freshman attacker Carly Tellekamp has contributed 22 goals while freshman midfielder Natalie Sulmonte (19g, 3a) and sophomore midfielder Emily Gillingham (18g, 4a) have each recorded 20 points. Ten Tigers have scooped up 10 or more ground balls this season and that group is led by sophomore defender Tianna Wallpher, who has 27. Wallpher also leads the team with 22 caused turnovers. Sulmonte leads the team with 35 draw controls. Freshman Angie Benson brings a 6.66 goals against average and a .460 save percentage into Sunday's action.
 
Scouting Connecticut: Connecticut is coming off a 13-8 loss to No. 2 Florida to close out Big East play last weekend. Alexa Bonnes led the Huskies with a pair of goals in against the Gators while Grace Nolan had a goal and an assist. Nolan powers the UConn offense this season as she has 41 goals and 15 assists for a team-high 56 points. Katherine Finkelston has a team-best 43 goals and five assists for 48 points. Alexandra Crofts has pulled down a team-high 29 draw controls while Cassie Ekstrom leads the way with 26 caused turnovers. Shannon Nee has been strong in goal for the Huskies and carries a 9.32 goals against average and a .552 save percentage into the weekend. Nee has also collected a team-best 42 ground balls.
 
Towson-Connecticut Series History: Sunday's game will be the sixth meeting all-time between the Tigers and Huskies. The two squads will be meeting for the first time since the 2006 season. The Tigers, who lead the all-time match-up 4-1, won that game 16-13. In that game, Becky Trumbo and Shannon Witzel each notched five goals and two assists to lead the Tigers to the win. Shannon Burk and Kristin Link had three goals each for UConn.
 
Thank You Seniors: Prior to the start of the game against UConn, the Tigers will recognize seniors Breanna Hamm, Alyssa Saxon, Tayler Bowman, Taylor O'Connor and Emily Roth. This group has led the Towson program to 42 wins, three straight appearances in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Championship game and the CAA Championship title in 2013 and 2014. They will lead the Tigers in their pursuit of another CAA Championship next week in Philadelphia.
 
I'm Honored: After helping the Tigers clinch a share of the CAA regular season title, freshman midfielder Natalie Sulmonte was named the CAA Rookie of the Week on Monday. Sulmonte was honored for the third time this season. She contributed four goals and two assists for six points while pulling down eight draw controls in two games. Sulmonte posted her second hat trick of the season against WIlliam & Mary and followed that up by matching her career-high with six draw controls against James Madison. It was the eighth time in 11 weeks that the Tigers have had the rookie of the week (Carly Tellekamp-4 times, Sulmonte-3 times, Angie Benson-1 time).
 
Hats Off to You: Towson had a player record a hat trick against James Madison, making it six straight games that at least one Tiger has recorded a hat trick. Redshirt junior attacker Alyssa Ferro recorded her first hat trick of the season against the Dukes. Six Tigers have recorded a hat trick so far this season (Carly Tellekamp-4, Kaitlyn Montalbano-5, Emily Gillingham-2, Jenna Kerr-1, Natalie Sulmonte-2 and Ferro-1).
 
Miss Assist: Junior midfielder Samantha Brookhart dished out two assists in Sunday's contest against James Madison. It was Brookhart's third multi-assist game of the seaosn and all three have come in the last five games. Brookhart now has nine multi-assist games in her career. Brookhart has teamed with sophomore midfielder Kaitlyn Montalbano to form a solid assist duo for the Tigers. Montalbano has four multi-assist games this season and five for her career. 
 
What's Next? Towson, who will be the No. 2 seed for the upcoming CAA Tournament, begins its trophy chase on Friday, May 6. The Tigers travel to Drexel to face No. 3 Elon at 3:30 p.m. in Philadelphia, Pa.