(2) #7 Mines (13-2-3, 9-1-2 RMAC) vs. (3) #14 UCCS (13-2-4, 8-1-3 RMAC) – Wednesday, 7 p.m. – Grand Junction, Colo. [Live Stats] [RMAC Network PPV] [Tickets] [Tournament Central]

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SEMIFINAL BOUND
The #7 Colorado School of Mines women's soccer team takes the next step on their postseason journey this week as they'll head west to Grand Junction for the semifinals of the 2025 RMAC Women's Soccer Championship for a matchup with #14 UCCS.
 
LIVE COVERAGE
This weekend's matches will be available for purchase on the RMAC Network. Free live stats will be available as well. Links for video and stats can be found on minesathletics.com.
 
FAN INFORMATION
As has been the case for the past two years of postseason play, the RMAC Women's Soccer Championship will remain on subscription model for all championship broadcasts. Broadcasts of all championship matches are included in annual or monthly subscriptions. Access to individual matches is available for $10.60 including taxes & fees. A championship day pass is also available $15 and includes access to all championship broadcasts for a 24-hour period. For technical support questions, fans may submit a support ticket with Hudl Support or email the RMAC directly (help@rmacsports.org). For further support, fans can visit the RMAC Network Help page.
 
Fans are also reminded that there is no passlist for the postseason. Fans are strongly encouraged to purchase advance tickets through Hudl Tickets prior to the event. Single-match general admission tickets are $16 while tickets for children ages 6-17, adults over 65 and military personnel are $11. A two-day pass for both semifinal and championship matches is available for $27.54 including service fees.
 
LAST TIME OUT
Mines punched their ticket to the semifinals with a 4-1 win Sunday over Adams State in the RMAC Quarterfinals. Caelan DeBolt scored the game-winning goal on her second goal of the season while Bella Campos recorded her second career postseason hat trick. Kaitlyn Manalili assisted on the game-winner by DeBolt with a corner kick before assisting on the third goal by Campos, marking her third two-assist match of the season and second in eight days against the Grizzlies. Allie Lundgren recorded two saves in an abbreviated day of work before handing things over to Emma Thomas to finish things out.
 
AT THE HELM
2025 marks the 16th season leading Mines for boss Kevin Fickes, the program's winningest head coach. With a career mark of 257-44-43 (.810), he ranks eighth in all of the NCAA and fourth in Division II among head coaches with at least five years of experience when it comes to winning percentage. One of two RMAC coaches with 200 career victories, under his direction Mines has overseen 39 All-America selections, 19 Academic All-America selections, 87 all-conference honorees and 32 RMAC major award winners. Fickes has also guided Mines to seven RMAC regular season titles and 10 RMAC Tournament crowns and made 16 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.
 
THE CAPTAINS
After having the same trio of captains for each of the last two seasons, a new group will be wearing the "C" for the Orediggers in 2025 as Callie Fuhr, Natalie Rouse and Bella Campos will lead the way this fall.
 
Fuhr, a fixture on the Orediggers' back line since 2022, has started 53 consecutive matches going back to October of her debut season and enters this fall with seven career points thanks to a goal and five assists. Across 67 matches in her career, she's clocked more than 5,250 minutes and in 2024 led the team with 2,064 minutes of action.
 
Rouse, the 2023 RMAC Defensive Player of the Year in her debut season in Golden, returns to action in 2025 after missing the final 21 matches of 2024 due to injury and will lineup alongside Fuhr to anchor the Mines defense at center back. The former All-America selection has started all of the 24 career matches in her career as an Oredigger and owns seven goals and an assist for 15 points in more than 2,100 minutes of action.
 
Campos, the latest prolific striker to come through Mines, already sports her name in the program record books in numerous places. The 2023 RMAC Freshman of the Year and 2024 RMAC Co-Player of the Year as well as a two-time All-American, Campos looks to step into a larger role in 2025 as an everyday starter. Despite just making 16 starts in her first 45 career matches, Campos has been a prolific producer on offense regardless of her role with 30 goals and 11 assists for 71 points in just over 2,100 minutes played.
 
A veteran and experienced group that has plenty of RMAC and NCAA Tournament experience, this trio will look to make an impact as leaders of the program heading into this fall.
 
IN THE POLLS
In the RMAC preseason coaches poll released in early August, the Orediggers were picked to repeat as league champions behind nine first place ballots of the 13 head coaches in the league. UCCS earned three first place ballots and was picked second with Colorado Mesa, MSU Denver and Fort Lewis rounding out the top five.
 
Nationally, Mines remained seventh in this week's United Soccer Coaches Top 25 for the third consecutive week. This week's rankings saw slight movement among the top teams. Dallas Baptist suffered their first loss of the season in their regular season finale to Midwestern State but remained the #1 team in the country heading into the LSC Tournament. Catawba and Minnesota State traded places in second and third while West Florida and Cal Poly Pomona exchanged fourth and fifth.
 
Around the RMAC, UCCS remained at #14 for the fourth week in a row while Colorado Mesa moved up a spot to #22. Fort Lewis remained the national conversation this week as they received votes for the second week in a row.
 
ALL-CONFERENCE HONORS
A total of six Orediggers earned All-RMAC distinction earlier on Tuesday, headlined by Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year Bella Campos and Natalie Rouse. Joining them on the All-RMAC First Team was Afton Rasco, while Kaitlyn Manalili earned Second Team honors. Jolie Jiricek and Gaby Guerrero rounded out the selections with Honorable Mention honors. Read more about the All-RMAC selections here.
 
GONNA NEED A BIGGER TROPHY CASE
With their coronations as Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year respectively, Bella Campos and Natalie Rouse each made a little bit of history Tuesday. For Campos, she earns her third RMAC major award in as many seasons and becomes the second player in program history to earn Freshman of the Year and multiple Offensive Player of the Year honors along with Reese McDermott, with whom she split POTY honors in 2024. Rouse meanwhile becomes the second player in program history to earn multiple Defensive Player of the Year honors alongside recent Mines Hall of Fame inductee Emily Garnier. Rouse also extended Mines' streak of DPOTY titles to five consecutive seasons and nine of the last 11.
 
TOURNAMENT RESET
As of Sunday, four matches are in the books for the 2025 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Championship. Last Friday's play-in match featured CSU Pueblo and Adams State in Alamosa with the Grizzlies advancing with a 2-0 win. Quarterfinal action took place Sunday with Mines hosting ASU at Stermole Stadium and rolling to a 4-1 win. Other quarterfinals saw UCCS eke out a double overtime thriller against Westminster 2-1 in Colorado Springs, while Fort Lewis dispatched Regis 2-0 with a pair of second half goals in Durango.
 
Wednesday's semifinals will pit the Orediggers and Mountain Lions against each other at 7 p.m. while regular season champions Colorado Mesa and Fort Lewis will square off in the first semifinal at 4 p.m. The winners of those matches will advance to Saturday night's title match at 5 p.m.

TIP OF THE HAT
For the third time in her career and second time in the postseason, Bella Campos recorded a hat trick Sunday afternoon against Adams State, further cementing her legacy as one of the program's best offensive players in history. The holder of two of three postseason hat tricks all-time, Campos' affinity for scoring seemingly knows no bounds. Going back to the regular season, she's scored in five consecutive matches and eight of her last 11 going back to October  5. During that span, she's turned in four multi-goals games and posted 13 of her 19 goals and two of her four assists. The reigning RMAC Player of the Year and former Freshman of the Year has certainly made a strong case for her third superlative award in as many seasons to begin her career.
 
DISHING IT OUT
Being able to score consistently starts with having players who can effectively distribute the ball or have an affinity for ball placement on set pieces. This fall, the Orediggers have one of the best tandems when it comes to assists in the RMAC and the country as Afton Rasco and Kaitlyn Manalili have combined for 17 of the team's 27 assists this season. Rasco, another former Freshman of the Year in the RMAC, is having a career year in her final campaign as she leads the team and the conference with nine assists. Fellow senior Kaitlyn Manalili meanwhile is following up an All-Region season last fall with another career year this year, breaking her mark of six dimes in 2024 with eight in 2025, four of which have come in the last 10 days at the time of writing. As Mines moves further into the postseason, this duo is sure to be leading the charge in the attacking third.
 
LEAGUE LEADERS
As the postseason moves forward, Bella Campos continues to add to her impressive scoring haul and heads to the semifinals with 19 goals. Campos also leads the league in shots with 68, and is second in shots on goal with 33. Afton Rasco's nine assists also led the RMAC this fall while Kaitlyn Manalili now finds herself in second with eight. Campos, Natalie Rouse and Lindsay Jeans also ranked in the top 10 in game-winners, with Campos' four being good for a four-way tie for second, Rouse's three tying for sixth and Jean's two tying for 10th. Between the pipes, Allie Lundgren ranks fifth in the RMAC in goals against average at 0.81 and saves with 62 while her .827 save rate is good for fourth. She also ranked sixth with five shutouts.
 
As a team, Mines boasts the #2 offense in the RMAC with 37 goals scored and is tied for fourth defensively with 14 goals allowed. Their eight penalty kicks lead the league by five over the two next closest teams while their 98 corner kicks now lead the conference. The Orediggers are also the cleanest team this year as they led the league with the fewest fouls at 106. Their three yellow cards were also the fewest in the conference.
 
ON THE SPOT
Penalty kicks aren't necessarily a regular occurrence over the course of a season, but they also aren't necessarily a rarity either. This fall, Mines has made a living on earning PKs and converting them, going 8-9 from the spot this season. That's a new single-season record for the most PKs made, breaking the previous mark of five set back in 2008. In addition, the nine PKs awarded a new single-season record, breaking last year's tally of seven. To top it off, the Orediggers lead Division II in penalties this fall and are among the leaders from the spot across all levels of the NCAA.
 
MILESTONE WIN
Back on October 17, Mines' win over Colorado Christian was another milestone mark in the legendary career of Orediggers head coach Kevin Fickes. Nearly four years to the day of his 200th career win, the Mines skipper banked #250 at the same venue against the same opponent thanks to a 1-0 win over Colorado Christian at Trailblazer Stadium in Lakewood. Over his first 15 seasons, the Orediggers have averaged better than 16 wins per season under Fickes' direction and have won at least 11 matches in 15 of those seasons (Mines went 7-0-3 in the COVID-shortened spring 2021 season). On pace to put up similar numbers this season, Fickes and the Orediggers will look to continue handling their business as they now set their sights on the second half of the 2025 regular season and the postseason.
 
MAKING THEIR MARK
Several active Orediggers are making their mark on the program's record books this season as they continue their careers. Most recently, Allie Lundgren became just the seventh goalkeeper in program history to record 100 career saves, doing so at MSU Denver on October 12. Entering this week, she stands at 127 in her career and has passed Sierra Roth (2018-21) for fourth all-time. Lundgren is also sixth in career shutouts with 15, and is two back of Zumbro for a top five spot in that category as well. Meanwhile, her 0.66 goals against average also ranks sixth.
 
Sadie Wolf's mark of 0.58 GAA puts her ahead of Lundgren in fifth while her 87 saves rank eighth all-time and 18 shutouts are good for fourth.
 
Bella Campos meanwhile continues to pile up the goals and the points. At New Mexico Highlands on October 31, she became the fifth player in program history to surpass 100 career points and stands at 107 through 62 matches. She's also rapidly approaching 50 goals with 49 as she looks to become the fourth player in program history to reach that mark. Campos is also knocking on the door to the top 10 in assists with 15, trailing Reese McDermott by five. Additionally, her 12 game-winners have her one back of fourth all-time and Megan Woodworth (2009-12). Campos currently ranks tied for first among active players in Division II and tied for 13th across all levels of the NCAA with 49 career goals.
 
Afton Rasco and Kaitlyn Manalili are also looking to further pen their name into the program records when it comes to assists with 17 apiece, while Rasco recently broke into the top 10 all-time in points and is currently tied for eighth with Jennifer Kendall (2015-18) with 53.
 
CHECKING THE STATS
Bella Campos' career year continues as she's now up to 19 goals with four assists for 42 points. Natalie Rouse is second on the team in scoring with four goals followed by Afton Rasco's three. Gaby Guerrero, Lindsay Jeans, Caelan DeBolt, Callie Fuhr and Annelise Rojo all have two goals each while Natalie Mezarina rounds out the scoring with on goal.
 
When it comes to assists, Rasco and Kaitlyn Manalili are 1-2 on the team as well as the RMAC with nine and eight assists respectively. Behind Campos, Anna Gessner has four while Guerrero, Jeans, Mezarina and Jordan Bowermaster all have one.
 
Between the pipes, Allie Lundgren has started all 18 matches for 1,443:49 and has faced 213 shots, making 62 saves against 13 goals for an .827 save rate and a 0.81 GAA. The senior is 13-2-3 with five solo shutouts and three combined shutouts. Backing her up this season has ben Emma Thomas, who has made six appearances for 176:11 and against 26 shots, has made 10 saves and allowed one goal for a .909 save percentage and a 0.51 GAA while combining with Lundgren for another three shutouts.
 
On the season, Mines has outscored teams 37-14 and averages 2.06 goals on 13.9 shots per match while holding opposing teams to 0.78 goals on 13.2 shots per match. They have 27 assists on their 37 goals and have combined for 73 saves. They are 8-9 from the spot and taken 98 corner kicks. The Orediggers have been whistled for 106 fouls and issued just three cautions.
 
SCOUTING THE MOUNTAIN LIONS
Since their 2-1 loss to Mines back on October 17, the Mountain Lions went 3-0-2 to end the regular season before advancing in the RMAC Tournament in double overtime Sunday with a 2-1 win over Westminster. Over their last six matches, UCCS has outscored teams 10-3 but has played to a pair of scoreless draws.
 
Abby Stassi leads the team and is second in the RMAC in scoring with 15 goals while adding three assists for 33 points. Brooke Pavlich is second in scoring with six goals while Emily Aguilar has five. Luka Johnson has four to her tally with Tay Levi and Casey Tadlock each adding three. Mikaela Carlson and Noelia Garcia have two goals each while three further Mountain Lions have one goal apiece.
 
When it comes to assists, Levi and Elise Broberg are tied for the team lead with seven points while Aguilar has five. Along with Stassi, Pavlich has three as well while Regan Dare has two. Six other players have a single assist.
 
In goal, Nylah Mirshafiei has started all 19 matches and played 1,715:56 out of a possible 1,726:10. In that time, she has faced 169 shots and made 48 saves against 14 goals allowed for a .774 save percentage and a 0.73 GAA on her way to a 13-2-4 record with nine solo shutouts. Dylan Reese has appeared twice for 9:14 and is yet to record any statistics while combining for a 10th shutout with Mirshafiei.
 
As a team this fall, UCCS has outscored teams 43-14 and averages 2.26 goals on 17.1 shots per match while allowing just 0.74 goals on 8.9 shots to opposing teams. They have 32 assists on their 43 goals and have made 50 saves defensively. UCCS has gone 3-4 from the spot and attempted 92 corner kicks this season. The have been whistled for 154 fouls and issued 10 yellow cards.

SERIES HISTORY
Following a 2-1 win in Golden in the regular season this fall, Mines leads the all-time series with 20-8-2 and enters Wednesday on a three-match winning streak against UCCS. The teams last met in the postseason in the semifinals of last year's RMAC Tournament, which resulted in a 2-1 win for the Orediggers as all three goals came in the final 27 minutes. Tay Levi gave UCCS the lead in the 63rd minute before Reese McDermott leveled the score in the 76th minute followed by a game-winner from Bella Campos in the 82nd minute to advance to the title match.
 
UP NEXT
With a win, the Orediggers will advance to the championship of the 2025 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Championship in Grand Junction Saturday against the winner of the match between Colorado Mesa and Fort Lewis. With a loss, Mines will await their NCAA Tournament destination and tune in for the national tournament selection show at 4:30 pm. MT on Monday November 17.
 
Fans can keep up with Mines women's soccer on X and Instagram at @mineswsoc. They can also keep up with Colorado School of Mines Athletics all year long on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using the handle @MinesAthletics.