STATESBORO, Ga. – On Tuesday morning, head women's soccer coach Brian Dunleavy announced the upcoming 2018 season schedule. The Eagles Fall 2018 regular-season schedule will feature 17 matches, which include nine home contests and a full Sun Belt Conference slate. The Blue and White are coming off of a season where they finished sixth in the conference standings and made it to the conference semifinals for the first time since joining the league in 2014.

Included in the Eagles 17 opponents are 12 teams that played into the postseason in 2017, highlighted by two NCAA Tournament participants. Both teams fell in the first round of the tournament, with South Florida defeating Florida Gulf Coast and Florida defeating South Alabama.

The Eagles will begin the season with a pair of exhibition games on the road, traveling to Jacksonville University and Mercer. The two exhibitions will help the 2018 squad prepare for a talented non-conference slate. The 2018 schedule features two split weekends and three single game weekends.

Following the pre-season exhibitions, the Eagles will head to Fort Myers, Florida to take on the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles, a team which won their eighth consecutive ASUN championship, before returning home to open the 2018 home season with Chattanooga. The following Friday the Blue and White will host Jacksonville State, before heading to Boiling Springs, North Carolina to take on Gardner-Webb.

To wrap up August and begin September the Eagles will host Davidson and Stetson at Eagle Field. The Eagles will travel to North Atlanta to compete with instate foe Kennesaw State and have the rest of the weekend off. The Blue and White will have the week off before opening conference play in Atlanta.

The Eagles will travel to Georgia State for the first conference match of the season, before hosting Louisiana to conclude the weekend. With a week to rest, the Eagles will host Appalachian State and conclude a short two match home stand. The Eagles will head on the road for the first full road weekend all season. The Blue and White will travel to Monroe, Louisiana, before heading to Mobile to face off against defending conference champions South Alabama.

To kick off October the Blue and White will host three straight home matches beginning on October 5^th. The Eagles will host Troy and Texas State the first weekend, and conclude home play with Coastal Carolina on Friday, October 12^th. The Eagles will travel for the final time in 2018 to Jonesboro, Arkansas and Little Rock, Arkansas to take on Arkansas State and Little Rock.

The Sun Belt Conference Tournament will return to Foley, Alabama and the Foley Sports Complex, beginning October 31^st and continuing through Sunday, November 4^th.