MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – A regional rivalry will resume Sunday, Nov. 19, with a trip to the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals on the line, as the No. 7-ranked and second-seeded West Virginia University women's soccer team kicks against No. 10-ranked and third-seeded Penn State at 5 p.m. at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.
 
The match will be streamed for free at WVUsports.com. A link for live stats also is available at WVUsports.com. 
 
Tickets for the third-round match are on sale now at WVUGAME.com. Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for students and $3 for youth. WVU students will be admitted for free with a valid WVU student I.D.
 
To provide a safer environment for Mountaineer fans and to expedite entry into all ticketed WVU athletic events, the West Virginia Department of Intercollegiate Athletics enforces the NFL's Clear Bag Policy. The athletic department invites and encourages fans to visit WVUsports.com/clearbag for more information, to view pictures of permissible and non-permissible items and to obtain answers to frequently asked questions about the clear bag policy.
 
The fifth all-time tournament meeting between the Mountaineers (16-3-3, 7-1-1) and the Nittany Lions (14-4-4, 6-2-3 Big Ten), Sunday's winner will face the winner of No. 1 Stanford – Florida State in a quarterfinal match on Nov. 24 or Nov. 25 at a site to be determined.
 
"They (Penn State) are just so dynamic with their movements and their ball movement," Mountaineer coach Nikki Izzo-Brown said. "Obviously, they were able to finish two against a very good Wake Forest. We know we're going to have our hands full on Sunday. Everyone wants to go to the Elite Eight now, so it's going to be a battle and it's going to be a tough opponent in Penn State."
 
WVU's third-round appearance is its third in as many years and sixth all-time. The Mountaineers are 2-2-1 in third-round matches and 1-1-1 in contests in Morgantown.
 
The Mountaineers and Nittany Lions have met four times before in the tournament, with each team earning two wins apiece. The only third-round meeting was in 2007, a 1-0 Mountaineer win on Nov. 24, at Jeffrey Field in University Park, Pennsylvania.
 
The teams' last tournament meeting was in 2015, a 2-0 victory for the No. 6-ranked Nittany Lions on Nov. 28, also at Jeffrey Field. PSU went on to claim its first-ever National Championships.
 
Overall, the squads are 7-7-2 in the 16-match series. WVU earned the upperhand in the last meeting, a 2-1 win at Dick Dlesk Stadium on Sept. 2. Junior forward Sh'Nia Gordon and freshman forward Lauren Segalla netted first-half goals, and the WVU backline held the then-No. 1 Nittany Lions to just three shots on-goal for the program's first-ever win over a top-ranked team in Morgantown.
 
WVU advanced to the tournament's third round following a thrilling penalty-kick shootout against No. 22 Rutgers on Nov. 17. Knotted at 0-0 after 110:00 minutes of play at Dick Dlesk Stadium, the Mountaineers connected on all but their second penalty kick, while Foster stopped RU's first and fifth attempts.
 
The Mountaineers finished with a 19-1 edge in shots against the Scarlet Knights. Foster made a save late in the second half for the team's 13th clean sheet of the season. Senior forward Michaela Abam finished with a game-high four shots. She paces the Mountaineers with 23 points (10 G, 3 A).
 
The Nittany Lions advanced to Sunday's match following a 2-0 win over No. 24 Wake Forest on Friday at DDSS. Junior forward Alina Ortega Jurado and sophomore midfielder Laura Freigang tallied the second-half scores, and junior Rose Chandler made five saves for her ninth shutout of the season.
 
Freigang paces the Nittany Lions with 19 points on nine goals and one assist – all but one of her scores has come in the last seven matches.
 
Chandler has allowed 13 goals this season and shows a 0.62 goals-against average.