Link to ESPN3 Telecast of NJIT women's soccer at Monmouth

WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ—The telecast NJIT's women's soccer at Monmouth Friday night at 7 pm will stream live over ESPN3.
 
The game, which will pit the 1-0 Highlanders against the 2-0 Hawks, will be televised from Hesse Field on The Great Lawn on Monmouth's campus.
 
ESPN3, part of the ESPN programming family, is an online streaming service that airs sports events worldwide, including many intercollegiate contests.
 
Monmouth participates in ESPN3 programming and NJIT will begin producing telecasts of home contests for ESPN3 later in the 2015-16 year (dates to be announced).
 
The Atlantic Sun Conference, NJIT's new conference home as of July 1, through its partnership with ESPN, is a leader in providing live content for ESPN3. In 2014-15, every Atlantic Sun Conference basketball game was shown on ESPN3.
 
Here is a link to ESPN3 access via the Atlantic Sun Conference website.
 
Both NJIT and Monmouth had their early season schedules disrupted by lightning on Monday, August 24. NJIT, which played at Lafayette, got in about 59 minutes of action before the contest was halted due to continuing lightning strikes in the Easton, PA, area. The result was "no contest" under NCAA playing rules, which mandate a minimum of 70 minutes played in order for a result to become official.
 
There were nearly two hours of lightning-related delays and the game was played under a night time curfew that prohibits play after 10:05 pm at Lafayette.
 
Monmouth, which was scheduled to play in Baltimore at Loyola on the same day, also encountered lightning, which postponed their contest until Tuesday. The game was played on Tuesday with Monmouth's Hawks scoring a 2-0 win.
 
The Hawks, who count 1999 and 2015 Women's World Cup champion Christie (Pearce) Rampone of the United States Women's National Team as an alumna, are a longtime power among mid-major Division I programs and they have won the last two Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference regular season championships.
 
Monmouth holds a 7-1 lead in the all-time series between the schools, including a 2-0 victory in Newark in the most recent meeting on September 4, 2014. NJIT's win in the series came two years earlier, 2-1, also in Newark on September 2, 2012.
 
Senior Samantha Bersett, who started in goal in NJIT's season-opening 5-1 win over Saint Peter's and also in the "no contest" this week at Lafayette, has started and gone the distance against Monmouth in each of her first three seasons. She had the 2-1 win as a freshman, followed by a 3-0 loss in West Long Branch as a sophomore and then last season's 2-0 loss.
 
None of the four players who accounted for NJIT's five goals in the 2015 opening win vs. Saint Peter's have ever faced Monmouth. They are all freshmen. Neema Liverpool rang the bell twice and Nicole Baldassini, Noelle Batista, and Arianna Gerber each scored one goal vs. SPU.
 
Current Highlander seniors Alex Adam, Abi Fakolujo, and Madeline Griep joined Bersett as then-freshman starters in the 2012 win over Monmouth. Two other current seniors, out injured, Kaelyn Gamel and Danielle Pierce, also started as freshmen in the 2012 win vs. the Hawks.