Louisiana, Troy Meet Again In Sun Belt Women's Soccer Championships

FOLEY, Ala. – Meeting for the second time in 10 days, the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Women's Soccer team opens play at the 2019 Sun Belt Conference Championships on Wednesday when it faces No. 2-seeded Troy in a first-round match at the Foley Sports Complex.

Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. The match will be available at ESPN+ with live stats available at CajunStats.com.

Returning to the Sun Belt Championships for the first time since 2016, Louisiana (8-7-3) enters as the No. 7 seed in the tournament. The Ragin' Cajuns dropped a 2-1 overtime decision to Troy (12-2-4) in the regular-season finale on Oct. 27 as the Trojans scored on an equalizer in the 88^th minute before scoring a golden goal in the 94^th minute.

The winner of Wednesday's match will advance to the semifinals on Friday at 4 p.m., facing the first-round winner of No. 3-seeded Arkansas State and sixth-seeded Texas State.

MATCH INFORMATION
LOUISIANA (8-7-3) vs. TROY (12-2-4)
Date/Time: November 6, 2019 / 1 p.m.
Site: Foley, Ala.
Facility (Surface): Foley Sports Complex (grass)

LIVE VIDEO / LIVE STATS
Video: ESPN+
Talent: Drew Fellios (pxp), Jordan Angeli (color)
Live Stats: CajunStats.com
Twitter Updates: @RaginCajunsSOC | #GeauxCajuns

WEATHER FORECAST (via Weather.com)
Sunday: Partly cloudy | High: 78° | Winds: ENE 8 mph | Rain: 10%
At kickoff: Partly cloudy | 75° | Wind: E 7 mph | Rain: 0%

SERIES HISTORY
Series Record: Troy leads, 11-4-1
At Lafayette: Troy leads, 4-2-1
At Troy: Troy leads, 6-2
Neutral Sites: Troy leads, 1-0
Last Meeting: Troy, 2-1 [ot] (10/27/19 at Lafayette)

THE COACHES
LOUISIANA
Head Coach: Lance Key (Trinity, 2000)
Record at Louisiana: 8-7-3 (first season), Career Record: 218-28-19 (13th season)

TROY
Head Coach: Ged O'Connor (St. Leo, 2004)
Record at Troy: 25-26-7 (third season), Career Record: 148-92-19 (14th season)

JUST FOR KICKS ...
• Louisiana, playing its 20th season of intercollegiate soccer, returns to the Sun Belt Conference Women's Soccer Championships for the first time since 2016.
• Louisiana will look for its first-ever win in the month of November in its 16th match.
• The eight wins by Louisiana under Lance Key are the most by a first-year coach in Ragin' Cajuns history, breaking the previous mark (4, Scot Wieland) in 2005.
• Sophomore Gwen Mummert was named first-team All-Sun Belt Conference on Tuesday, becoming the first Ragin' Cajuns defender to earn postseason honors since Grace Howell-Harries in 2014.
• Louisiana's 2-0 victory at ULM on Oct. 13 was its first in Monroe since a 4-0 win on Oct. 28, 2011.
• Louisiana's seven shutouts during the 2019 season are tied for the single-season school-record (first set in 2010).
• Louisiana's four wins in October were one more than the total by the Ragin' Cajuns from 2015-18.
• Louisiana's 2-0 victory over Georgia Southern on Oct. 25 secured the first non-losing season since 2014.
• Karleen Bedre recorded the first multi-goal game by a Ragin' Cajun since Ashleigh Cade against Georgia Southern on Sept. 24, 2017.
• The Ragin' Cajuns were 5-1-1 at home in 2019 and allowed three goals this season.
• Two of the three goals allowed at home by the Ragin' Cajuns were in a five-minute span against Troy in the regular-season finale on Oct. 27.
• The five shutouts by Louisiana at home in 2019 tied the single-season record that was previously set by the 2010 squad.
• Louisiana's 1-0 win over Appalachian State on Oct. 4 was its first over the Mountaineers in the last six matches and marked its first shutout in the seven-match series.
• The win was Louisiana's first in the month of October since a 1-0 victory over ULM on Oct. 16, 2016. The Ragin' Cajuns were a combined 0-11-3 since.
• The win for Louisiana was its first in double overtime against a Sun Belt Conference opponent since a 2-1 win at Little Rock on Oct. 17, 2004.
• Louisiana has allowed three first-half goals in its last 16 matches.
• Louisiana's four wins during the month of September were one off the school record that was set four times (2012, 2015, 2016, 2017).

THROW-INS ...
• Louisiana's four-match win streak last month was its longest since victories against ULM (2-0), Little Rock (2-1), Arkansas State (1-0) and Texas State (5-2) from Oct. 6-18, 2013.
• Louisiana's 2-1 win at Sam Houston State on Sept. 8 was its first double overtime road victory since a 3-2 victory at Troy on Sept. 25, 2016.
• Gwen Mummert has started in all 36 career matches she has played in.
• Mummert was named the Sun Belt Conference Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 24 - the first Ragin' Cajun to earn SBC weekly honors since 2017 and the first to claim Defensive Player of the Week honors since Grace Howell-Harries in 2013.
• Skyla Sykes three game-winning goals in 2019 have tied a single-season school record, set eight times previously (last Annika Schmidt and Whitney Taggart in 2016).
• Kobi McNutt posted the first multi-assist game of her career against Georgia Southern.
• True freshman Olivia Gelpi recorded her first career goal (and game-winning goal) in Louisiana's 2-0 win at ULM on Oct. 13.
• Rainey Niles' goal against Northwestern State on Sept. 15 was the first of her career.
• Senior Kaylie Powell recorded the first point of her career with an assist in Louisiana's 3-1 win over Coastal Carolina on Oct. 6.

SAVES AND CLEAN SHEETS ...
• Senior Mackenzie Lee recorded four saves against Little Rock on Sept. 29 to increase her career total to 146 and move past Anne Corbello (144) into sixth place on the school's all-time list
• The shutout of South Alabama on Sept. 22 was the seventh for Mackenzie Lee in her career, moving her past Cosette Morche (2015-16) into sole possession of fourth-place on the all-time list.
• Lee's 1.23 goals against average in 2019 is tied for the second-lowest in school history.
• With 16 career victories between the posts, Lee moved past Morche into fourth place on the Ragin' Cajuns all-time list.
• Louisiana's seven shutouts in 2019 are tied for the school record previously set in 2010.
• The Ragin' Cajuns current 1.20 goals against average is on pace to be the lowest in school history.

SURPRIS ADDED TO COACHING STAFF
• Louisiana head coach Lance Key announced on Oct. 24 the addition of Chelsea Surpris (pronounced soo-PREE) to the coaching staff.
• Surpris played in 60 matches with 42 starts during her career at Texas from 2015-18, helping the Longhorns to 43 wins and a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances.
• The Crowley, Texas native logged over 4,500 minutes of playing time as a defender for the Longhorns, including 2,004 of a possible 2,005 minutes in the defensive backline in helping Texas to the Sweet 16 in 2017.

UP NEXT
• The winner of Wednesday's match will advance to the semifinals on Friday at 4 p.m., to face the winner of the Arkansas State-Texas State match.

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Louisiana, Troy Meet Again In Sun Belt Women's Soccer Championships

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Players Mentioned

Karleen Bedre

Olivia Gelpi

Grace Howell-Harries

Mackenzie Lee

Kobi McNutt

Gwen Mummert

Rainey Niles

Kaylie Powell

Annika Schmidt

Skyla Sykes

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