University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Sunday, September 20
San Marcos, Texas
1 p.m.
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
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Texas State
Louisiana Soccer Match 4 Preview: at Texas State
9/19/2020 11:40:00 AM | Soccer
Ragin' Cajuns open Sun Belt play on Sunday against rival Bobcats
SAN MARCOS, Texas – The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Women's Soccer team returns to action on Sunday when it officially opens Sun Belt Conference play against Texas State at the Bobcat Soccer Complex.
Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. The match will be streamed live on ESPN+ with live stats available at CajunStats.com.
Louisiana (2-1-0) and Texas State (0-4-1) will face off for the first of two meetings this season with the SBC schools playing home-and-home against divisional opponents. The schools will face off in Lafayette on Oct. 4.
The Ragin' Cajuns 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.
Texas State, which won its sixth straight match in the series against Louisiana with a 1-0 victory in last season's matchup, dropped a 2-0 decision to Central Arkansas on Friday.
MATCH INFORMATION
LOUISIANA (2-1-0) at TEXAS STATE (0-4-1)
Date / Time: September 20, 2020 / 1 p.m.
Site: San Marcos, Texas
Stadium: Bobcat Soccer Complex (grass)
VIDEO/LIVE STATS
Video: ESPN+
Talent: Brant Freeman, Lindsay Mason Yanko
Live Stats: CajunStats.com
Twitter Updates: @RaginCajunsSOC
Hashtag: #GeauxCajuns / #LAvsTXST
WEATHER FORECAST (via Weather.com)
Sunday: PM Showers | High: 80° | Winds: NNE 16 mph | Rain: 30%
At kickoff: Partly cloudy | 75° | Wind: NNE 17 mph | Rain: 25%
SERIES HISTORY
Overall: Texas State leads, 7-1-0
At Lafayette: Texas State leads, 3-1-0
At San Marcos: Texas State leads, 4-0-0
Streak: Texas State +6
Last Meeting: Texas State, 1-0 (Oct. 11, 2019 at San Marcos)
JUST FOR KICKS ...
• Louisiana opens its 21st season of Sun Belt Conference soccer when it faces Texas State in San Marcos, Texas.
• Louisiana will look to snap a six-match losing streak to the Bobcats that has included three matches in San Marcos.
• The meeting is the first of two this season between the schools with the second contest set for Oct. 4.
• Louisiana's lone win in the series came in the first Sun Belt meeting between the schools - a 5-2 victory in Lafayette on Oct. 18, 2013 behind a four-goal performance from then-freshman Yazmin Montoya.
• Louisiana's Lizzie Mayfield is tied for second nationally in total assists (2) and third in points scored (6) and fourth in total goals (2).
• 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.
• 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.
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.
• 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 41 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) as Sun Belt Conference Players of the Week on Sept. 9 marked the first time in school history Louisiana swept the weekly honors.
• The announced crowd of 563 against Abilene Christian on Sept. 4 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 against ACU 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 is fourth nationally in total goalkeeper minutes played (286:47).
• 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.
UP NEXT
• Louisiana returns home to start a seven-match homestand beginning on Thursday (Sept. 24) when it hosts Arkansas State in a 7 p.m. contest.
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.
LOUISIANA ADDS LOUISIANA FOR OCTOBER 2 HOME MATCH
• 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.
LOUISIANA, LAMAR MOVED UP TO OCTOBER 15 START
• Louisiana's scheduled Oct. 16 contest against Lamar has been moved up one day to the Oct. 15 contest at the Ragin' Cajuns Track/Soccer Facility.
• The match will start at 7 p.m.
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. The match will be streamed live on ESPN+ with live stats available at CajunStats.com.
Louisiana (2-1-0) and Texas State (0-4-1) will face off for the first of two meetings this season with the SBC schools playing home-and-home against divisional opponents. The schools will face off in Lafayette on Oct. 4.
The Ragin' Cajuns 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.
Texas State, which won its sixth straight match in the series against Louisiana with a 1-0 victory in last season's matchup, dropped a 2-0 decision to Central Arkansas on Friday.
MATCH INFORMATION
LOUISIANA (2-1-0) at TEXAS STATE (0-4-1)
Date / Time: September 20, 2020 / 1 p.m.
Site: San Marcos, Texas
Stadium: Bobcat Soccer Complex (grass)
VIDEO/LIVE STATS
Video: ESPN+
Talent: Brant Freeman, Lindsay Mason Yanko
Live Stats: CajunStats.com
Twitter Updates: @RaginCajunsSOC
Hashtag: #GeauxCajuns / #LAvsTXST
WEATHER FORECAST (via Weather.com)
Sunday: PM Showers | High: 80° | Winds: NNE 16 mph | Rain: 30%
At kickoff: Partly cloudy | 75° | Wind: NNE 17 mph | Rain: 25%
SERIES HISTORY
Overall: Texas State leads, 7-1-0
At Lafayette: Texas State leads, 3-1-0
At San Marcos: Texas State leads, 4-0-0
Streak: Texas State +6
Last Meeting: Texas State, 1-0 (Oct. 11, 2019 at San Marcos)
JUST FOR KICKS ...
• Louisiana opens its 21st season of Sun Belt Conference soccer when it faces Texas State in San Marcos, Texas.
• Louisiana will look to snap a six-match losing streak to the Bobcats that has included three matches in San Marcos.
• The meeting is the first of two this season between the schools with the second contest set for Oct. 4.
• Louisiana's lone win in the series came in the first Sun Belt meeting between the schools - a 5-2 victory in Lafayette on Oct. 18, 2013 behind a four-goal performance from then-freshman Yazmin Montoya.
• Louisiana's Lizzie Mayfield is tied for second nationally in total assists (2) and third in points scored (6) and fourth in total goals (2).
• 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.
• 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.
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.
• 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 41 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) as Sun Belt Conference Players of the Week on Sept. 9 marked the first time in school history Louisiana swept the weekly honors.
• The announced crowd of 563 against Abilene Christian on Sept. 4 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 against ACU 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 is fourth nationally in total goalkeeper minutes played (286:47).
• 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.
UP NEXT
• Louisiana returns home to start a seven-match homestand beginning on Thursday (Sept. 24) when it hosts Arkansas State in a 7 p.m. contest.
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.
LOUISIANA ADDS LOUISIANA FOR OCTOBER 2 HOME MATCH
• 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.
LOUISIANA, LAMAR MOVED UP TO OCTOBER 15 START
• Louisiana's scheduled Oct. 16 contest against Lamar has been moved up one day to the Oct. 15 contest at the Ragin' Cajuns Track/Soccer Facility.
• The match will start at 7 p.m.
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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