Mines (11-3-3, 7-2-2) vs. CSU Pueblo (5-9-3, 3-6-2) – Wednesday, 5 p.m. – Golden, Colo. [Live Stats] [RMAC Network] [Tickets]

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REGULAR SEASON WRAP-UP
Already knowing their season will continue beyond Wednesday night, the Colorado School of Mines women's soccer team will try to and improve their postseason seeding when they host CSU Pueblo in the final match of the regular season at Stermole Stadium in the first leg of doubleheader.
 
LIVE COVERAGE
This weekend's matches will be available to watch with a subscription to the RMAC Network. Free live stats will be available as well. Links for video and stats can be found on minesathletics.com.
 
RMAC NETWORK 
The RMAC Network continues to have a pay-per-view model for all events. Fans can purchase monthly and annual subscriptions that will provide them access to all regular-season, championship, and archived broadcasts on the RMAC Network. A monthly subscription costs $25, and an annual subscription costs $130. Single-game passes are available for $12.50, which grants access to a single game for 24 hours. For technical support questions, fans can contact Hudl Support or email the RMAC directly (rmac@rmacsports.org). For further support, fans can visit the RMAC Network Help page.
 
FAN INFORMATION
Tickets can be purchased online in advance at minesathletics.com/tickets or at the gate on the day of the match. Mines students, faculty and staff will be admitted for free with their BlasterCard. Fans are encouraged to park in Lot K immediately to the north of Stermole Stadium. Fans as are not allowed to park in the neighborhood surrounding the Clear Creek Athletic Complex, as the City of Golden's street parking requires a permit seven days a week.
 
THIS WEEK'S FORECAST
After cool start to the week, temperatures will be back on the rise for Wednesday. The forecasted high is expected to be around 67 degrees with partly cloudy skies and southeast winds at seven miles per hour.
 
AT THE HELM
2026 marks the 17th season leading Mines for Kevin Fickes, the program's winningest head coach. With a career mark of 267-46-48 (.806), 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 41 All-America selections, 21 Academic All-America selections, 93 all-conference honorees and 34 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.
 
WEEK 9 RECAP
Mines made light work of New Mexico Highlands and Adams State last weekend, outscoring the teams a combined 15-2 with 10-1 and 5-1 results Friday and Sunday. Friday against the Cowgirls, Bella Campos scored the fastest regular season goal al-time just 41 seconds in as the rout was on from there. The senior scored four times with an assist to tie the single-match scoring record and break the single-match points record while recording a first half hat trick in just 18:10. Caelan DeBolt and Natalie Rouse each scored in the first half, while freshman Molly Elder scored twice for her first multi-goal performance. Fellow freshmen Madisen Powers and Haliya Jabel each scored as well for the first times in their careers. Lindsay Jeans dished out three assists to for the fifth three-assist match all-time, while Bella Torres had a pair of assists for the first time in her career. Finley Ewald also had an assist as did Shyla Kalpathy for the first of her career. Sunday at ASU, Campos turned in her third straight hat trick outing while Rouse and Sam Forde both scored on headers with the latter of the two scoring her first career goal. Jordan Bowermaster had the first multi-assist match of her career while Ewald and DeBolt also had assists in the winning effort.
 
THE CAPTAINS
A seasoned group of veterans will be wearing the "C" this fall for the Orediggers. Bella Campos and Natalie Rouse enter their second seasons as captains, while Gaby Guerrero rounds out the on-field leadership group. Campos is coming off her second consecutive RMAC Player of the Year award after scoring 20 goals with four assists for 44 points. Rouse, who missed most of 2024 with injury, returned in 2025 to earn her second RMAC Defensive Player of the Year award after scoring five times from her center back position and anchoring a defense that posted nine shutouts. Guerrero was named Honorable Mention All-RMAC last fall as a standout midfielder who scored twice with an assist.
 
IN THE POLLS
Mines topped August's RMAC Preseason Coaches' Poll followed closely by Colorado Mesa and UCCS. Fort Lewis and Regis rounded out the top five followed by Westminster, MSU Denver, Colorado Christian, CSU Pueblo and Western Colorado in the top 10. Adams State, Black Hills State and New Mexico Highlands rounded out the 13-team rankings.
 
In this week's NPI rankings released Monday, Mines and Colorado Mesa once again flip-flopped sixth and seventh spots with the Orediggers moving back in front. The Lone Star Conference trio of DBU, Midwestern State and Texas Woman's remained 1-2-3 followed by Regis, UCCS and Mines.
 
FIVE YEARS OF ELIGIBILITY PASSES
In early August, NCAA Division II passed a sweeping change to eligibility rules that now gives all student-athletes five seasons of eligibility in a five-year span, and eliminates redshirting. It will apply to this year's incoming freshmen, and returning players can either convert to the new rule or be grandfathered into continuing with the old four-year model, whichever is more beneficial. The new rules supersede the previous freshman rule that allowed them to play in up to four games while still redshirting. 
 
NCAA CHANGES POSTSEASON PROCESS
Another significant change coming to NCAA Division II is how they select the postseason championship field. Playoff selections will now be handled solely by the NCAA Power Index (NPI) instead of regional committees, removing the human element from the process; NPI takes into account winning percentage and strength of schedule, quality wins, and home/away weights, rewarding challenging schedules and road wins more so than in years past.
 
'PHINS UP
Wednesday night's matchup between Mines and CSU Pueblo will feature two former colleagues who spent time at Division I Jacksonville University. Mines Athletics Communications Coordinator Patrick Murphy and CSU Pueblo head coach John Constable worked together during the 2020-21 academic year. Both men were in their first seasons with the Dolphins that year, with Murphy working alongside Matt Moretti and Scott Manze in the Sports Information Office while Constable was tasked with rebuilding a JU program that hadn't won a match since 2018. Following that season, Murphy returned to his alma mater Missouri S&T for a year before joining the staff at Mines ahead of the 2022-23 season. Constable meanwhile spent three more seasons at JU before taking the reigns in Pueblo ahead of the 2024-25 season.
 
NCAA ACTIVE CAREER SCORING LEADER
Heading into week 10 of the season, Bella Campos continues to lead all levels of NCAA soccer in both goals scored and points. Campos is one of two players in the entire country with more than 50 career goals and the only one north of 70, as her 75 leads the nation by 18 over Eowyn Lapp of Division III Gordon with 57 goals. Alabama's Larkin Thomason is the top Division I player with 46 goals and is tied for ninth on the active scoring list.
 
Shifting to look at points, Campos is also the only active player with more than 150 points as she sits with 172. Again, Lapp is second on the list with 134 points while Ohio State's Amanda Schlueter is the first Division I player on the list and tied for eighth with 113.
 
Campos also headlines an even smaller list of active players with 30 or more career goals and 20 or more career assists. Gordon is second once again and the latest addition to the list with 57 goals and 20 assists for 134 points. Schlueter is the first DI player on that list with 42 goals and 29 assists for 113 points. At the time of writing, just 25 players can find their name on this list.
 
ONE RECORD DOWN, ONE TO GO
Following Sunday's three-goal performance against Adams State, Bella Campos took down the career points record previously held by Kayla Mitchell of 170. With 172 and counting, Campos now owns one program offensive record, and is on the doorstep of breaking the second one. After scoring seven times last week, she's now one goal from tying and two from breaking Mitchell's career goals record of 76. Already one of the greatest offensive players of all-time at Mines, Campos can cement her already hall of fame worthy legacy as the top offensive player of all-time. She is now tied with Acacia Ortiz (2015-18) for fourth in career assists with 22, and is one behind Anna Evans (2010-13) for third. Additionally, Campos's 328 shots rank third all-time. Perhaps the most impressive number is the fact that Campos has scored on 75 of the 158 shots on goal she's taken in her career. That latter number is third all-time, having passed McDermott and her total of 141. For those keeping track at home, that is a .482 scoring rate in her career when Campos puts a ball on frame.
 
USING YOUR HEAD
Mines students are known for using their heads to solve complex equations, develop world-changing ideas and overall being very big-brained individuals. Last weekend saw Natalie Rouse and Sam Forde use their heads to help the Orediggers to wins over New Mexico Highlands and Adams State. Rouse scored once in each match to run her scoring streak to three matches, first heading home a corner kick against the Cowgirls before heading home a cross (yes, a cross in the run of play) for a goal against the Grizzlies. Meanwhile, Forde banged home a header of a second half corner kick Sunday for the first goal of her Mines career.
 
THE MORE YOU KNOW
A fun fact about Rouse's goal Sunday as well. While she did score using her head for the 16th time in her career, it was just the second time in her 17 career goals that she scored in the run of play. 15 other goals in Rouse's career were scored by finishing off set pieces. Her last run of play goal came against at MSU Denver last October as the only goal she's scored using her feet in her career. And while those two goals have been in the run of play, they have been a result of Mines winning a second ball off of set piece. Both instances were initiated by corner kicks with Rouse positioning herself well as play resumed to cash in. So in a technical sense, all 17 of her goals are the result of either a free kick or a corner kick in some capacity.
 
OLD HAT
So scoring three times in a soccer match is supposed to something that's challenging and ultimately not that common. Evidently, someone forgot to pass that information along to Bella Campos. The Oredigger striker is in the midst of a generational heater in the month of October, and more specifically the last three weeks. After scoring four times Friday against New Mexico Highlands and three times against Adams State, she's now got four hat tricks on the season. All four have come in the last five matches and she enters play Wednesday having accomplished the feat in each of the last three matches.
 
Friday against NMHU, Campos tied the single-match scoring record with the second-ever four-goal performance in program history, while needing just 18:10 to score three goals. She's now recorded a hat trick in a half three times in her career, and done it in the first half twice.
 
CHECKING THE STANDINGS
Regis clinched the regular season title and will host the upcoming RMAC Women's Soccer Championship as they saw a 13-match unbeaten streak end Sunday with a 1-1 draw against Colorado Mesa. Nonetheless, RU is 10-0-1 in league play with 31 points. UCCS is locked in as the #2 seed and are idle Wednesday as they went 9-2-1 with 28 points this fall. Mines and CMU are presently tied for third at 7-2-2 with 23 points each, but the Mavericks have the head-to-head advantage and if both teams win Wednesday, they'll end up as the #3 seed while Mines will be the #4 seed. Black Hills State continues their best-ever season and is fifth at 6-3-2 with 20 points one point ahead of Fort Lewis in sixth at 6-4-1.
 
The Skyhawks are the last team locked in the postseason field, as the battle for the final two spots will be one to watch Wednesday. Westminster is leading a group of four schools with 15 points and a record of 4-4-3. Western Colorado and Colorado Christian are tied for eighth with 13 points and records of 4-6-1, while CSU Pueblo is 10th and still mathematically alive at 3-6-2 with 11 points. MSU Denver is 11th at 2-7-2 and eight points, while Adams State and New Mexico Highlands bring up the rear at 1-10-0 and 0-11-0 respectively.
 
CHECKING THE STATS
Bella Campos continues to lead Mines, the RMAC and the NCAA in scoring this season with 25 goals along with seven assists for 57 points. Natalie Rouse is now up to second on the team as she's heating up late and has five goals. Bella Torres, Caelan DeBolt, Allyson Townsend and Molly Elder have all scored three times, while Annelie Rojo has scored twice. Gaby Guerrero, Finley Ewald, Sam Forde, Natalie Mezarina, Haliya Jabel and Madisen Powers round out the scoring with one goals each.
 
Lindsay Jeans took over the team lead in assists Friday with three against NMHU and now has eight on the season ahead of Campos. Guerrero is right behind those two with six, while Torres has five in her debut season. Ewald has four followed by Forde and Bowermaster with three apiece. DeBolt, Townsend, Mezarina, Ariana Ahumada, Taylor Johnson-Balding and Shyla Kalpathy round things out with one assist each.
 
In goal, Keria Garcia has had a strong second half of the season. She's started all 10 of her outings now for 855 minutes and against 95 shots, has made 24 saves to lead the way against seven goals allowed for a 0.74 GAA and a .774 save rate with three shutouts. Brekyn Davenport-Murrish has started seven times in eight appearances for 675 minutes and against 70 shots made 13 saves and allowed 10 goals for a 1.33 GAA and a .565 save percentage with one shutout.
 
On the season, Mines has outscored teams 50-17 and averages nearly three goals per match at 2.94 on 19.2 shots, while allowing 1.00 goals on 9.6 shots to opposing teams. They have 42 assists on their 50 goals, and are 2-5 on PKs this fall. Mines has made 40 saves defensively and taken 94 corner kicks. They have been whistled for 84 fouls and issued five yellow cards.

SCOUTING THE THUNDERWOLVES
CSU Pueblo enters Wednesday night fighting for their season as they look to clinch a spot in the 2026 RMAC Tournament. The Pack are coming off a pair of 2-0 home wins over Adams State and New Mexico Highlands, their first wins since October 2. Needing a win Wednesday night, CSU Pueblo stares down a tough task as they are just 1-5-3 when playing away from home this fall.
 
Seven players have scored this fall for the ThunderWolves, led by Abby Menk with five goals. Baylie Reedy has scored four times followed by Jenna Elledge with two goals. Nadia Bailey, Maya Bethelmie, Katie Peterson and Sara Zehnder round out the scoring with one goal each. Ruthie Landwehr leads The Pack with four assists on the year, followed by Elledge, Caytlynn Garland and Madi Reardon all of whom have two. Bailey meanwhile has one to round out the 11 on the season.
 
In goal freshman Peppi Niemi has led the way for the ThunderWolves, starting all 13 of her appearances for 1,081:11. In that time she's faced 180 shots and made 58 saves against 20 goals allowed for a 1.66 GAA and a .744 save percentage with two shutouts. Ella Bulfer has been the #2 with three starts in seven appearances for 358:49. She's seen 72 shots and made 19 saves against four goals allowed for a 1.00 GAA and an .826 save rate with one shutout of her own. She's also combined with Niemi for a shutout as well. Jamie Noriega made her debut Sunday against NMHU, and in 90 minutes did not record a save or allow a goal against six off-target shots in a shutout.
 
On the season, CSU Pueblo has been outscored 24-15 and averages just 0.88 goals and 8.3 shots per match while allowing 1.41 goals and 15.2 shots per match to opponents. They have 11 assists on their 15 goals and are 1-1 on PKs this season. The Pack have made 78 saves in goal and taken 37 corner kicks. They have been called for 104 fouls, issued nine cautions and assessed two ejections.

SERIES HISTORY
Mines enters Wednesday 19-8-6 all-time against CSU Pueblo and is looking to atone for a 1-1 draw in Pueblo to end the regular season last fall. When playing at home, the Orediggers are 12-2-3. Over the last 12 meetings, Mines is 7-0-5. The last win for The Pack in the series came in 2016 with a 2-0 win in Pueblo. They haven't won in Golden since a 3-2 result all the way back in 2007 when the Mines program was in their third year of existence. CSU Pueblo did claim an advancement in the spring 2021 RMAC tournament 4-2 on penalties following a scoreless draw in Colorado Springs.
 
UP NEXT
Results Wednesday will determine seeding, opponent and location for the Orediggers in the 2026 RMAC Women's Soccer Championship. Depending on results around the league, Mines could finish as high as the #3 seed or as low as the #5 seed. Stay tuned to minesathletics.com for the latest postseason information.
 
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, X and Instagram using the handle @MinesAthletics.