University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Sunday, September 13
Lafayette
1 p.m.
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
vs
Stephen F. Austin
Louisiana Soccer Match 3 Preview: vs. SFA
9/12/2020 1:24:00 PM | Soccer
Ragin' Cajuns looking for first-ever 3-0-0 start in school history
LAFAYETTE – The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Women's Soccer team looks for its first-ever 3-0-0 start in school history when it returns to action on Sunday to face Stephen F. Austin at the Ragin' Cajuns Track/Soccer Facility.
Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m., with live stats available at CajunStats.com.
The Ragin' Cajuns Track/Soccer Facility will operate at a significantly reduced capacity for the 2020 season (unless state policy changes during the season). This will allow for fans and University students to be accommodated this season.
Should disruptions or modifications to the 2020 season occur due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Athletics will quickly communicate the adjustments through its social media channels and RaginCajuns.com. Additionally, the department will communicate any changes to specific entry and attendance protocols for home matches.
Louisiana, off to its third 2-0-0 start to the season in school history and first since 2012, overcame a 1-0 deficit against defending Sun Belt Conference champion South Alabama with a goal in the 89th minute to send the match to overtime before freshman Alyssa Abbott's game-winner gave the Ragin' Cajuns a 2-1 victory.
Lizzie Mayfield posted her second straight match with a goal and an assist to lead Louisiana while Jordan Higgins stopped seven shots, including an early penalty kick opportunity to notch her second win of the season.
SFA (1-0-1) earned the first Division I victory on the soccer pitch with a 2-1 double overtime win at Texas State on Sept. 4 before battling Abilene Christian to a 1-1 draw at home last Sunday. The match against Louisiana will be the third of five scheduled matches for the Lumberjacks, who will also face Southland Conference opponent Central Arkansas in a pair of non-conference matches.
MATCH INFORMATION
LOUISIANA (2-0-0) vs. STEPHEN F. AUSTIN (1-0-1)
Date / Time: September 13, 2020 / 1 p.m.
Site: Lafayette, La.
Stadium: Ragin' Cajuns Track/Soccer Facility (grass)
LIVE STATS
Live Stats: CajunStats.com
Twitter Updates: @RaginCajunsSOC
Hashtag: #GeauxCajuns / #LAvsSFA
WEATHER FORECAST (via Weather.com)
Sunday: PM Thunderstorms | High: 90° | Winds: NE 8 mph | Rain: 40%
At kickoff: Mostly cloudy | 89° | Wind: NE 9 mph | Rain: 25%
SERIES HISTORY
Overall: SFA leads, 2-0-0
At Lafayette: SFA leads, 1-0-0
At Nacogdoches: SFA leads, 1-0-0
Streak: SFA +2
Last Meeting: SFA, 3-1 (Sept. 5, 2010 at Nacogdoches)
JUST FOR KICKS ...
• After opening the season with victories over Abilene Christian and South Alabama, Louisiana is looking for its first-ever 3-0-0 start on the pitch in school history.
• The Ragin' Cajuns opened with 2-0-0 starts in both 2010 and 2012 before dropping its third contest of the season (Houston - 2010; Ole Miss - 2012).
• The Ragin' Cajuns return 15 letterwinners from a squad that posted a 9-8-3 record in 2019 and reached the semifinals of the Sun Belt Conference Championships for the first time in school history.
• Louisiana will play nine of its first 11 matches during the 2020 season at the friendly confines of the Ragin' Cajuns Soccer/Track Facility.
• The match against SFA is the second of four this season for Louisiana against schools from the Southland Conference.
• The Ragin' Cajuns defeated Abilene Christian (2-0) in its opener on Sept. 4 and will host Central Arkansas (Oct. 11) and Lamar (Oct. 16).
• Louisiana is 38-28-7 (.568) all-time against schools from the Southland Conference.
• Louisiana clinched its first-winning season since 2014 when the Ragin' Cajuns posted a 9-8-2 record.
• Louisiana, which finished 9-8-3 in 2019, was picked to finish in a tie for fifth place in the 2020 Sun Belt Conference preseason poll which was voted on by the league's head coaches.
• The nine wins in 2019 by Louisiana under Lance Key were the most by a first-year coach in Ragin' Cajuns history, breaking the previous mark (4, Scot Wieland) in 2005.
• During the 2019 season, Louisiana posted a 5-1-1 record at home and allowed three goals all season.
• The five shutouts by Louisiana at home in 2019 tied the single-season record that was previously set by the 2010 squad.
• The 2-0 win over Abilene Christian improved Louisiana's season-opening record to 6-14-1.
BENDING THE BALL ...
• Louisiana's two goals scored against Abilene Christian equaled the most by the Ragin' Cajuns in a season-opener since a 2-1 win at McNeese State on Aug. 21, 2012.
• Alyssa Abbott's game-winning goal in double overtime against South Alabama was the first of her career.
• Lizzie Mayfield's three points (goal, assist) against Abilene Christian equaled the most by a Ragin' Cajun in a season-opener since Courtney Hofland's three points at Houston in 2006.
• Mayfield is tied for the national lead in goals scored (2) and leads all Division I players in points (6) after the opening weekend of the season.
• Sophomore Gwen Mummert was named first-team All-Sun Belt Conference after the 2019 season, becoming the first Ragin' Cajuns defender to earn postseason honors since Grace Howell-Harries in 2014.
• Bedre and Skyla Skyes' three game-winning goals in 2019 were tied for the most in a single-season in school history, set eight times previously (last Annika Schmidt and Whitney Taggart in 2016).
• 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 ...
• Gwen Mummert has started in all 40 career matches she has played in.
• Mummert joins Una Einarsdottir, Julianne DeBlieux and Ashley Newland as team captains for the 2020 season.
• The announcement of Lizzie Mayfield (offense) and Jordan Higgins (defense) marked the first time in school history Louisiana swept the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week Award.
• The announced crowd of 563 against Abilene Christian on Friday was the second-largest in school history. The Ragin' Cajuns drew a school-record 663 fans against Northwestern State on Sept. 13, 2002.
• After missing the 2019 season due to injury, redshirt junior Grace Champagne played seven minutes as she returned to the field for the time since Oct. 21, 2018 against Georgia State.
SAVES AND CLEAN SHEETS ...
• Goalkeeper Jordan Higgins posted the first shutout in her Ragin' Cajuns debut since Alexias Stricklin stopped seven shots in a 1-0 win over Sam Houston State in 2014.
• Higgins became just the second goalkeeper in school history to earn SBC Player of the Week honors and the first since Liza Preseault on Oct. 1, 2002.
• Louisiana's eight shutouts in 2019 set a school record.
• Louisiana added three goalkeepers - junior college transfer Jordan Higgins and freshmen Carly Dean and Lauryn Starwood - to replace the tandem of Mackenzie Lee and Victoria Mendes.
RAGIN' CAJUNS ON "THE PLUS"
• Five Louisiana matches will be streamed live on ESPN+ beginning with the season-opener against Abilene Christian.
• Matches against Louisiana Tech (Oct. 2), Texas State (Oct. 4), Little Rock (Oct. 9) and Central Arkansas (Oct. 11) will also be streamed during the 2020 season.
MEET THE NEWCOMERS
• Fourteen new faces are expected to see their first action for Louisiana during the 2020 season, highlighted by West Virginia transfer Lizzie Mayfield and junior college transfer Jordan Higgins.
• Newcomers Alyssa Abbott, Carly Dean, Caitlyn Ferguson, Hailey Hoffmann, Demi McCalliog, Abby Nowak, Lucy Ortiz, Mikayla Price, Mya Smith, Emily Sonnier, Katelyn Stamps and Lauryn Starwood are part of head coach Lance Key's first recruiting class at Louisiana.
• Mayfield, Higgins and Hoffmann each earned starts in Louisiana's debut while Abbott and Ortiz each came off the bench in the 2-0 win over ACU.
• Abbott scored the game-winner in double overtime against South Alabama on Sept. 6 with a goal from 25 yards out while Smith saw her first action as a Ragin' Cajun in the second half against USA.
HIGGINS, MAYFIELD SWEEP SUN BELT WEEKLY AWARDS
• After leading the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Women's Soccer team to a pair of victories to open the 2020 season, juniors Jordan Higgins and Lizzie Mayfield were named on Wednesday as the Sun Belt Conference Players of the Week in a vote by the league's head coaches and released by the conference office.
• Higgins, named the SBC Defensive Player of the Week, stopped 11 shots and posted a 0.46 goals against average in posting wins over Abilene Christian and defending SBC champion South Alabama. Higgins posted a shutout against ACU in her Louisiana debut last Friday with four saves before stopping seven shots – including an early penalty kick opportunity – in a come-from-behind 2-1 win against South Alabama on Sunday.
• Mayfield earned SBC Offensive Player of the Week honors after recording a pair of three-point outings to start the season. The West Virginia transfer scored a goal and added an assist in Louisiana's 2-0 victory over ACU to open the season before adding some late heroics in the Ragin' Cajuns first win over South Alabama since 2016.
LOUISIANA ADDS HOME MATCH AGAINST LOUISIANA TECH
• The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Women's Soccer team picked up its ninth home match of the 2020 season after adding in-state opponent Louisiana Tech for a non-conference contest at the Ragin' Cajuns Track/Soccer Facility on Friday, Oct. 2.
• The match will kick off at 7 p.m., and will be streamed live on ESPN+. The contest will be the fourth all-time meeting between the schools on the pitch with the last match coming in 2014.
UP NEXT
• Louisiana opens Sun Belt Conference action next Sunday (Sept. 20) when it travels to San Marcos, Texas to face Texas State in a 1 p.m. contest. The match is scheduled to be streamed live on ESPN+.
THE NEW NORMAL ... FOR NOW
• Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sun Belt Conference has split the teams split into East and West Divisions with teams playing home-and-home against divisional opponents.
• Louisiana and the rest of the West Division programs (Arkansas State, Little Rock, ULM, Texas State) will play eight conference contests while the teams in the East (Appalachian State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, South Alabama, Troy) will play 10.
Follow the Ragin' Cajuns on Twitter (@RaginCajunsSOC), Instagram (@RaginCajuns_SOC) and Facebook (Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Soccer) or check RaginCajuns.com for Louisiana soccer updates.
Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m., with live stats available at CajunStats.com.
The Ragin' Cajuns Track/Soccer Facility will operate at a significantly reduced capacity for the 2020 season (unless state policy changes during the season). This will allow for fans and University students to be accommodated this season.
Should disruptions or modifications to the 2020 season occur due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Athletics will quickly communicate the adjustments through its social media channels and RaginCajuns.com. Additionally, the department will communicate any changes to specific entry and attendance protocols for home matches.
Louisiana, off to its third 2-0-0 start to the season in school history and first since 2012, overcame a 1-0 deficit against defending Sun Belt Conference champion South Alabama with a goal in the 89th minute to send the match to overtime before freshman Alyssa Abbott's game-winner gave the Ragin' Cajuns a 2-1 victory.
Lizzie Mayfield posted her second straight match with a goal and an assist to lead Louisiana while Jordan Higgins stopped seven shots, including an early penalty kick opportunity to notch her second win of the season.
SFA (1-0-1) earned the first Division I victory on the soccer pitch with a 2-1 double overtime win at Texas State on Sept. 4 before battling Abilene Christian to a 1-1 draw at home last Sunday. The match against Louisiana will be the third of five scheduled matches for the Lumberjacks, who will also face Southland Conference opponent Central Arkansas in a pair of non-conference matches.
MATCH INFORMATION
LOUISIANA (2-0-0) vs. STEPHEN F. AUSTIN (1-0-1)
Date / Time: September 13, 2020 / 1 p.m.
Site: Lafayette, La.
Stadium: Ragin' Cajuns Track/Soccer Facility (grass)
LIVE STATS
Live Stats: CajunStats.com
Twitter Updates: @RaginCajunsSOC
Hashtag: #GeauxCajuns / #LAvsSFA
WEATHER FORECAST (via Weather.com)
Sunday: PM Thunderstorms | High: 90° | Winds: NE 8 mph | Rain: 40%
At kickoff: Mostly cloudy | 89° | Wind: NE 9 mph | Rain: 25%
SERIES HISTORY
Overall: SFA leads, 2-0-0
At Lafayette: SFA leads, 1-0-0
At Nacogdoches: SFA leads, 1-0-0
Streak: SFA +2
Last Meeting: SFA, 3-1 (Sept. 5, 2010 at Nacogdoches)
JUST FOR KICKS ...
• After opening the season with victories over Abilene Christian and South Alabama, Louisiana is looking for its first-ever 3-0-0 start on the pitch in school history.
• The Ragin' Cajuns opened with 2-0-0 starts in both 2010 and 2012 before dropping its third contest of the season (Houston - 2010; Ole Miss - 2012).
• The Ragin' Cajuns return 15 letterwinners from a squad that posted a 9-8-3 record in 2019 and reached the semifinals of the Sun Belt Conference Championships for the first time in school history.
• Louisiana will play nine of its first 11 matches during the 2020 season at the friendly confines of the Ragin' Cajuns Soccer/Track Facility.
• The match against SFA is the second of four this season for Louisiana against schools from the Southland Conference.
• The Ragin' Cajuns defeated Abilene Christian (2-0) in its opener on Sept. 4 and will host Central Arkansas (Oct. 11) and Lamar (Oct. 16).
• Louisiana is 38-28-7 (.568) all-time against schools from the Southland Conference.
• Louisiana clinched its first-winning season since 2014 when the Ragin' Cajuns posted a 9-8-2 record.
• Louisiana, which finished 9-8-3 in 2019, was picked to finish in a tie for fifth place in the 2020 Sun Belt Conference preseason poll which was voted on by the league's head coaches.
• The nine wins in 2019 by Louisiana under Lance Key were the most by a first-year coach in Ragin' Cajuns history, breaking the previous mark (4, Scot Wieland) in 2005.
• During the 2019 season, Louisiana posted a 5-1-1 record at home and allowed three goals all season.
• The five shutouts by Louisiana at home in 2019 tied the single-season record that was previously set by the 2010 squad.
• The 2-0 win over Abilene Christian improved Louisiana's season-opening record to 6-14-1.
BENDING THE BALL ...
• Louisiana's two goals scored against Abilene Christian equaled the most by the Ragin' Cajuns in a season-opener since a 2-1 win at McNeese State on Aug. 21, 2012.
• Alyssa Abbott's game-winning goal in double overtime against South Alabama was the first of her career.
• Lizzie Mayfield's three points (goal, assist) against Abilene Christian equaled the most by a Ragin' Cajun in a season-opener since Courtney Hofland's three points at Houston in 2006.
• Mayfield is tied for the national lead in goals scored (2) and leads all Division I players in points (6) after the opening weekend of the season.
• Sophomore Gwen Mummert was named first-team All-Sun Belt Conference after the 2019 season, becoming the first Ragin' Cajuns defender to earn postseason honors since Grace Howell-Harries in 2014.
• Bedre and Skyla Skyes' three game-winning goals in 2019 were tied for the most in a single-season in school history, set eight times previously (last Annika Schmidt and Whitney Taggart in 2016).
• 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 ...
• Gwen Mummert has started in all 40 career matches she has played in.
• Mummert joins Una Einarsdottir, Julianne DeBlieux and Ashley Newland as team captains for the 2020 season.
• The announcement of Lizzie Mayfield (offense) and Jordan Higgins (defense) marked the first time in school history Louisiana swept the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week Award.
• The announced crowd of 563 against Abilene Christian on Friday was the second-largest in school history. The Ragin' Cajuns drew a school-record 663 fans against Northwestern State on Sept. 13, 2002.
• After missing the 2019 season due to injury, redshirt junior Grace Champagne played seven minutes as she returned to the field for the time since Oct. 21, 2018 against Georgia State.
SAVES AND CLEAN SHEETS ...
• Goalkeeper Jordan Higgins posted the first shutout in her Ragin' Cajuns debut since Alexias Stricklin stopped seven shots in a 1-0 win over Sam Houston State in 2014.
• Higgins became just the second goalkeeper in school history to earn SBC Player of the Week honors and the first since Liza Preseault on Oct. 1, 2002.
• Louisiana's eight shutouts in 2019 set a school record.
• Louisiana added three goalkeepers - junior college transfer Jordan Higgins and freshmen Carly Dean and Lauryn Starwood - to replace the tandem of Mackenzie Lee and Victoria Mendes.
RAGIN' CAJUNS ON "THE PLUS"
• Five Louisiana matches will be streamed live on ESPN+ beginning with the season-opener against Abilene Christian.
• Matches against Louisiana Tech (Oct. 2), Texas State (Oct. 4), Little Rock (Oct. 9) and Central Arkansas (Oct. 11) will also be streamed during the 2020 season.
MEET THE NEWCOMERS
• Fourteen new faces are expected to see their first action for Louisiana during the 2020 season, highlighted by West Virginia transfer Lizzie Mayfield and junior college transfer Jordan Higgins.
• Newcomers Alyssa Abbott, Carly Dean, Caitlyn Ferguson, Hailey Hoffmann, Demi McCalliog, Abby Nowak, Lucy Ortiz, Mikayla Price, Mya Smith, Emily Sonnier, Katelyn Stamps and Lauryn Starwood are part of head coach Lance Key's first recruiting class at Louisiana.
• Mayfield, Higgins and Hoffmann each earned starts in Louisiana's debut while Abbott and Ortiz each came off the bench in the 2-0 win over ACU.
• Abbott scored the game-winner in double overtime against South Alabama on Sept. 6 with a goal from 25 yards out while Smith saw her first action as a Ragin' Cajun in the second half against USA.
HIGGINS, MAYFIELD SWEEP SUN BELT WEEKLY AWARDS
• After leading the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Women's Soccer team to a pair of victories to open the 2020 season, juniors Jordan Higgins and Lizzie Mayfield were named on Wednesday as the Sun Belt Conference Players of the Week in a vote by the league's head coaches and released by the conference office.
• Higgins, named the SBC Defensive Player of the Week, stopped 11 shots and posted a 0.46 goals against average in posting wins over Abilene Christian and defending SBC champion South Alabama. Higgins posted a shutout against ACU in her Louisiana debut last Friday with four saves before stopping seven shots – including an early penalty kick opportunity – in a come-from-behind 2-1 win against South Alabama on Sunday.
• Mayfield earned SBC Offensive Player of the Week honors after recording a pair of three-point outings to start the season. The West Virginia transfer scored a goal and added an assist in Louisiana's 2-0 victory over ACU to open the season before adding some late heroics in the Ragin' Cajuns first win over South Alabama since 2016.
LOUISIANA ADDS HOME MATCH AGAINST LOUISIANA TECH
• The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Women's Soccer team picked up its ninth home match of the 2020 season after adding in-state opponent Louisiana Tech for a non-conference contest at the Ragin' Cajuns Track/Soccer Facility on Friday, Oct. 2.
• The match will kick off at 7 p.m., and will be streamed live on ESPN+. The contest will be the fourth all-time meeting between the schools on the pitch with the last match coming in 2014.
UP NEXT
• Louisiana opens Sun Belt Conference action next Sunday (Sept. 20) when it travels to San Marcos, Texas to face Texas State in a 1 p.m. contest. The match is scheduled to be streamed live on ESPN+.
THE NEW NORMAL ... FOR NOW
• Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sun Belt Conference has split the teams split into East and West Divisions with teams playing home-and-home against divisional opponents.
• Louisiana and the rest of the West Division programs (Arkansas State, Little Rock, ULM, Texas State) will play eight conference contests while the teams in the East (Appalachian State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, South Alabama, Troy) will play 10.
Follow the Ragin' Cajuns on Twitter (@RaginCajunsSOC), Instagram (@RaginCajuns_SOC) and Facebook (Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Soccer) or check RaginCajuns.com for Louisiana soccer updates.
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