Games 6 & 7 vs. No. 17 Harvard & Brown
When	Game 6 vs. No. 17 Harvard : Friday, Sept. 15  |  6 p.m. Game 7 vs. California: Sunday, Sept. 17  | 2 p.m.
Where	Game 6: Dedham Field  |  Dedham, Mass.  |  Directions Game 7: Dedham Field  |  Dedham, Mass.  |  Directions
Tune In	Game 6: Live Video | Live Stats Game 7: Live Video | Live Stats
Game Notes	Northeastern (Game 6) | Northeastern (Game 7)
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Promotion	Field Hockey Skills and Development Clinic (Sept. 17) Any and all field hockey players are invited to participate in a pregame clinic with members of the Northeastern field hockey team. The clinic will run from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and costs $40 per member which includes free pizza prior to the game vs. Brown. To register, please contact Northeastern associate head coach Shelly Morris by email at s.morris@northeastern.edu, or by phone at (617) 373-2570.

BOSTON – The Northeastern field hockey team is set to take on a pair of Ivy League foes this weekend at Dedham Field. The Huskies will begin the weekend against No. 17 Harvard on Friday night at 6 p.m. followed by a Sunday afternoon matinee with Brown at 2 p.m.
 
The last four games between Northeastern and Harvard have come down to a one-goal differential while the Huskies will take on Brown for the first time since the 2008 season, a 7-1 victory in favor of Northeastern.
 
The field hockey squad will face Harvard and Brown in back-to-back games for the third time in program history, the other two occurrences coming in the 2002 and 2003 seasons.
 
LAST TIME OUT
• The Huskies upended Providence on Friday night 2-1 on the road, marking their sixth-straight victory over the Friars, and second-straight won by June Curry-Lindahl in overtime
• Curry-Lindahl tallied the game-winner in the 75th minute of action, gathering up a rebound off of Laura MacLachlan's initial shot and firing it into the goal for the win
• On Sunday afternoon, the Huskies hosted their home opener against Cal where the Golden Bears got out to 2-0 lead, NU couldn't overcome, eventually falling 2-1
 
NORTHEASTERN VS.
 
HARVARD
• Harvard and Northeastern have met 36 times in the past, in all but one (1981) of the seasons in Northeastern history
• Northeastern holds a 24-12 advantage over the Crimson following a 4-3 victory last season in Cambridge
• The last four games between the two teams have been decided by just one-goal, including last year's win in which the Huskies' outlasted Harvard thanks to a pair of goals by Alice Batt, including the eventual game-winner in the 64th minute
• Harvard has won the last two meetings in Dedham with the Huskies last home win against the Crimson coming in the 2011 season
 
BROWN
• Brown and Northeastern have met 22 times in the past with the Huskies, with Northeastern leading the series 18-4 
• The two teams will meet for the first time since the 2008 season
• The Huskies enter this contest on a six-game series win streak over the Bears including a 7-1 victory in 2008 at home
• Northeastern's last loss to Brown came in 2000, a 4-0 set back on the road
• Brown is looking for its first win of the season this weekend after starting the year off 0-5 with close losses to Bryant, Providence, and Drexel
 
TOPS IN THE NATION
• Six different Huskies have already scored in 2017, and four of those athletes have tallied at least three goals through the first five games
• As a team, the Huskies rank second in the CAA and 11th nationally scoring 3.32 goals/game through the first five games of the year, second only to Delaware (4.50)
• Junior June Curry-Lindahl leads the Husky scorers with five goals in the first five games, which ranks second in the CAA and ninth in the nation with 1.00 gpg in 2017
• Curry-Lindahl, who also has four assists on the year, leads the conference with 2.80 points per game an average that also ranks fourth in the country
 
TO BE THE BEST...
• In the last five seasons, the Huskies have taken on 34 ranked teams, including 12 in the 2012 season alone
•This season is no different, beginning with No. 17 Harvard this weekend, eight of the team's Northeastern will face this season are currently ranked in the NFHCA Poll
• Northeastern is looking for its first win over a ranked team since a 3-2 victory over No. 8 Boston College on Oct. 5, 2014
 
AGAINST THE IVIES
• Since the Huskies began as a varsity program in 1980, they have competed against an Ivy League opponent in every season, except for 1981
• This season, Northeastern will face off against three different Ivies for the first time since the 2008 season when the Huskies took on Dartmouth, Brown and Harvard
• The last time the Huskies took on Harvard, Brown and Princeton all in the same year was in 2005
• The field hockey team faced five different Ivies in the 1988 season capping the third place finish off with a 1-0 victory over Penn, one of 20 different seasons Northeastern has swept all of their Ivy League opponents faced
• Only two times in the past have the Huskies faced two Ivy League opponents in back-to-back games when they took on Brown, followed by Harvard in 2002 and then again in 2003 NUFH faced Dartmouth, Brown and Harvard in three-straight games
• When facing their Ivy League opponents in back-to-back games, the Huskies won both meetings, in both instances