Team Records:
Eastern: 5-6 overall, 3-1 LEC
Keene: 5-8 overall, 2-2 LEC
 
Series History:
Eastern leads, 20-19. The Warriors broke the Owls' seven-year grip on the series, ending a ten-game losing streak vs. Keene with a 15-9 road win in the first round of the 2025 LEC playoffs. The Warriors had lost six straight against the Owls at Keene, including a 15-11 decision in the regular-season match earlier in the year. Prior to last year, the team's last victory over Keene at Keene was a 12-11 overtime verdict in 2017. The Warriors opened the all-time series with Keene in 1998 with eight straight wins and were a winner in 14 of the first 15 before the Owls took 18 of the next 23 prior to last year's LEC playoffs. Four of Eastern's five wins in that stretch had come in succession by a total of five goals. Ten matches in the all-time series have been decided by one goal (half of them going to overtime), with Eastern winning seven.
 
Scouting the Owls:
Ranked fifth in the LEC pre-season poll after last year's first-round playoff loss, Keene is 4-4 on the road this year. After losing its first five of the year, Keene has won five of its last eight, having moved to within a victory of .500 on the strength of a four-game winning streak, all on the road. Since going 2-0 in Florida, Keene is 2-3 and is coming off an 18-11 LEC loss at UMass Boston on Saturday. Returning senior midfielder Tess Brown was Keene's only first-team All-LEC pick last year   but the Owls filled in with four second-teamers, among them returning senior goalie Mabelle Bessette. Keene features three 20-goal scorers in Brown (31), junior Hayden Smith (23) and returning sophomore all-conference player Lola Varricchione (23). Brown needs one point for 50 on the season. In addition to being the top offensive player, Brown also tops the club in draw controls (50), ground balls (56) and caused turnovers (37), ranking in the LEC top three in all three of those categories. Sophomore Katelyn Nicotera is the Owls' No. 1 goalie this year. She has a 5-4 record, .476 save percentage (second in the LEC) and 10.13 GAA (third in the LEC) and
 
Scouting the Warriors:
Eastern is 3-2 at Rick McCarthy Field this year, 1-1 at home against LEC opponents. Only one of this year's five home games have been close, the Warriors edging Worcester State University, 19-15 back on March 25. Three-time first-team All-LEC attack Alexa Vizzini tied the program record with ten goals in that match and finished with 13 points. Vizzini ranks fourth in the LEC in goals (40), needing one to become the program's third 200-goal scorer.
Fourteen different players have contributed a point for Eastern. Vizzini and junior defender Grace Saldana are the only two of the Warriors' six All-LEC picks last year. In addition to leading the club in goals, assists (13), points (53) and shots (89), Vizzini is the leader in draw controls (49), while Saldana tops the club in ground balls (36) and caused turnovers (24). In her first two career starts in the last two games, senior goalie Kasi DaCruz is 1-1, posting her first win Monday with six saves in  a 13-8 LEC win at Plymouth State University.  
 
Against Common Opponents:
Eastern is 3-1 against common opponents, Keene 1-3. Both teams have beaten LEC foe Rhode Island College and both have lost at home to LEC opponent University of Southern Maine. Against Worcester State University and the University of Massachusetts Boston, Eastern has beaten both and Keene State has lost to both. Both teams have both VTSU Castleton and defending champion Western Connecticut remaining on their LEC schedule. Eastern hosts the Wolves Wednesday and visits Castleton in the regular-season finale April 25; Keene hosts Castleton Wednesday and visits Western Connecticut in the regular-season finale April 25.