SALISBURY, Md. -- After another impressive run through the regular season, the 14th-ranked Christopher Newport women's soccer team secured the top seed in the 2025 Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Championship starting on Thursday. The Captains, who won the regular season conference title, earned a first-round bye and will play the host and #4-seed Salisbury University at 11:00 a.m. on Friday morning at the Gerry DiBartolo Soccer Complex where the 2025 tournament is being held. 

The Captains have won the conference championship six times in the last eight seasons and have won 12 tournament titles since 2000 including six as former members of the USA South Athletic Conference and six since joining the Capital Athletic Conference in 2013, now known as the Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference. 

Live stats and a live video webcast will be available for all the action courtesy of Salisbury University. Links to both can be found on the women's soccer schedule at CNUsports.com or by connecting to the C2C Tournament website here. Ticket prices are $25 for a weekend pass or $10 for a single day pass. Seniors, students, and veterans are admitted for $7 admission while Children (ages 5-12) tickets are $5. Tickets can be purchased in advance online and walk-up tickets may be purchased starting one hour prior to the day's first game. 

Christopher Newport just made the trip to the Eastern Shore of Maryland last weekend for their last game where they closed out a scoreless draw against the host Sea Gulls. The result extended a five-game unbeaten streak heading into the postseason tournament that included four straight wins before the tie at Salisbury. 

Led by three-time defending Coaching Staff of the Year headed by Jamie Gunderson and assisted by Sean Killion and Brian Lybert, the Captains featured seven All-Conference selections and eight total players recognized by the league in the postseason awards. Senior midfielder Hanna Heaton was named the C2C Offensive Player of the Year for the second consecutive year and freshman defender Addy Hennessy was named the C2C Rookie of the Year. 

Offensively, the Captains are averaging 1.75 goals per game while being led by Heaton with 18 points (7g, 4a) and senior forward Molly Seventko with 11 points (4g, 3a). Junior Alex Devers has added four goals and Lexi Hazelgrove also has eight points on three goals and two assists. 

Defensively, CNU continues to boast one of the nation's elite back lines with only five goals allowed through 16 regular season games. Since Gunderson took the helm in 2021, the Captains have allowed just 37 goals in 106 games for an unthinkable 0.345 goals-against average. In goal for the majority of those games has been junior goalkeeper Amy Sidaway, who ranks third nationally among all active players in goals-against average over the course of her career with a 0.39 mark. The back line includes senior Kyleigh Gough, junior Bella DiTommaso, and rookies Hennessy and Malayah Warner. 

Salisbury earned a 1-0 double overtime win against Johnson & Wales - Charlotte in the quarterfinals on Thursday. Lauren Chesney picked up the winning goal in the 103rd minute for the Sea Gulls. This season, the Salisbury offense has been balanced with Jordan Edwards (4g, 1a) and Ava Wheeler (2g, 5a) leading the way with nine points apiece. 

The winning team will advance to the Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference Championship game on Sunday, November 9 at 10:00 a.m.