Louisiana Soccer Match 10 Preview: at Troy

TROY, Ala. – Coming off a record-breaking win to wrap up non-conference play, the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Women's Soccer team gets back into Sun Belt Conference play on Friday when it faces Troy at the Trojan Soccer Complex.

Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m., with the match being streamed live on ESPN+. Live results will be available at CajunStats.com.

Louisiana (3-6-0, 0-1-0 SBC) earned a 7-0 victory at Alcorn State last Sunday to post its first road victory of the season while setting a single-match school-record for most goals in a road contest. Karleen Bedre and Rachel Sutter each recorded a pair of goals for Louisiana with Hailly Waterhouse, Hailey Hoffmann and Alyssa Abbott each scoring goals.

The Ragin' Cajuns received assists from Bedre, Savanna Young, Lucy Ortiz and Ruthny Mathurin with the trio of Hailey Lander, Mikayla Price and Ally White each recording their first career points on assists.

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MATCH INFORMATION
LOUISIANA (3-6-0, 0-1-0 SBC) at TROY (3-4-1, 0-1-0 SBC)
Date / Time: September 24, 2021 / 7 p.m.
Site: Troy, Ala.
Stadium: Trojan Soccer Complex (grass)

THE COACHES
LOUISIANA
Head Coach: Lance Key (Trinity, 2000)
Record at Louisiana: 22-23-4 (Third season); Overall Record: 231-44-21 (15th season)

TROY
Head Coach: Nicole Waters (Dayton, 2016)
Record at TROY: 3-4-1 (first season); Overall Record: Same

VIDEO/LIVE STATS/SOCIAL UPDATES
Streaming Video: ESPN+
Talent: Joshua Hodge (pbp)
Live Stats: CajunStats.com
Twitter Updates: @RaginCajunsSOC
Hashtag: #GeauxCajuns

WEATHER FORECAST (via Weather.com)
Friday: Sunny | High: 82° | Winds: NNE 6 mph | Rain: 10%
At kickoff: Clear | 69° | Wind: N 3 mph | Rain: 0%

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: Louisiana trails, 5-11-1
At Lafayette: Louisiana trails, 2-5-1
At Troy: Louisiana trails, 2-5-0
At Neutral Sites: Tied, 1-1-0
Last Meeting: Louisiana, 3-0 (November 6, 2019 at Foley, Ala.)

SET PIECES
• Louisiana continues its three-match roadtrip as it gets back into Sun Belt Conference play facing Troy.
• Troy has won seven of the last 10 meetings between the schools with Louisiana's last victory at the Trojan Soccer Complex coming in 2016.
• The teams meet for the first time since Louisiana claimed a 3-0 victory in the 2019 Sun Belt Conference Championships.
• The win was Louisiana's first-ever victory in the month of November in school history, snapping an 0-15 record in the process.
• In Louisiana's 7-0 win over Alcorn State on Sunday, Karleen Bedre and Rachel Sutter each posted multi-goal matches.
• Freshman Hailly Waterhouse recorded her first career goal in the victory while Hailey Lander, Ally White and Mikayla Price each were credited with their first career assists.
• The seven goals scored were the most by Louisiana in a road match in school history while the five goals in the second half tied a school record that was previously set in 2014.
• Louisiana's seven assists against Alcorn were the second-most by a Sun Belt Conference team in 2021.
• Jordan Higgins and Lauryn Starwood combined to post Louisiana's first clean sheet since opening night against Prairie View.
• Louisiana has faced its most grueling non-conference schedule in school history during the 2021 season highlighted by four teams from the SEC (Mississippi State, Kentucky, Tennessee and LSU) and American Athletic Conference (Houston).
• Sixteen of the 31 members on the 2021 squad are in their first year with the Ragin' Cajuns.
Twenty-one of Louisiana's 31 players on the 2021 roster are underclassmen (12 freshmen, 9 sophomores).
• With 13 career goals, Karleen Bedre is currently tied for sixth in school history with Shelby Isley (2010-13) and Cayla Chatman (2009-11).
• With an assist against Alcorn State, Bedre increased her career total to 12 and moved into a tie for third-place on the Ragin' Cajuns list with Courtney Hofland (2006-10).
• Bedre's five-point performance at Alcorn increased her career total to 38 and past Callie Oliver (37, 2005-08) and Isley (36, 2010-13) into sole possession of sixth place.
• Bedre's game-winning goal was the fourth of her career moving her into a tie for fifth place with six players with the last being Una Einarsdottir (2017-20).

UP NEXT
• Louisiana wraps up its trip to the state of Alabama on Sunday when it heads south to Mobile to face defending Sun Belt champion South Alabama at 1 p.m.
• After facing USA, the Ragin' Cajuns will return home to face Arkansas State on Oct. 3.

Louisiana Soccer Match 10 Preview: at Troy

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Players Mentioned

Alyssa Abbott

Karleen Bedre

Una Einarsdottir

Jordan Higgins

Hailey Hoffmann

Hailey Lander

Ruthny Mathurin

Lucy Ortiz

Mikayla Price

Lauryn Starwood

Rachel Sutter

Hailly Waterhouse

Ally White

Savanna Young

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