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PENSACOLA, Fla. – With the regular season now in the rearview mirror, the University of Texas women’s soccer program will turn its attention to more success in the postseason, as the No. 3 seed Longhorns take on the No. 11 seed LSU Tigers at 2 p.m. Central Time. will compete against each other. 2024 SEC Soccer Tournament Quarterfinals Tuesday, Nov. 5, at Brosnaham Soccer Complex in Pensacola, Florida.
TV: Alex Perlman (play-by-play) and Marion Crowder (analyst) will call Tuesday’s action on SEC Network. The broadcast can also be streamed on the ESPN app.
Series history:
Texas has never lost a women’s soccer game against LSU by scoring more than two goals in a game, including a regular-season matchup last month. In fact, in all four of the Longhorns’ wins over the Tigers, UT has scored three or more goals the entire game. After the Longhorns’ 3-1 win over LSU in October 2024, Texas head coach Angela Kelly is now 10-5-2 against LSU, which is the best record ever at Tennessee. This is highlighted by seven consecutive wins during his tenure. volunteer. Texas enters Tuesday afternoon’s game against LSU with a 4-1-1 record, but none of its previous six games have been played on neutral grounds. Of the four Texas-LSU matchups that took place during Kelly’s tenure at Tennessee, three of the times, in 2001, 2003, and 2006, were when Texas and the Volunteers defeated LSU in the same season. It broke.
Tournament history:
Tuesday afternoon’s game will be Texas’ first appearance in the SEC postseason football tournament. It will also be the Longhorns’ first postseason conference tournament game outside of Texas since 2019, when the Big 12 conference tournament was held at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri. Additionally, the Longhorns have never won a postseason conference tournament. Games outside of Texas throughout program history: Kansas City, Missouri – 0-4-4 St. Louis, Missouri – 0-1-0 Texas head coach Angela Kelly takes the field for Tuesday’s Longhorns contest During his time coaching the Tennessee Volunteers (2000-2011), he compiled an all-time record of 13-8-3 (.604) in SEC Football Tournament games. Additionally, Kelly won four SEC Tournament titles (2002, 2003, 2005, 2008) while coaching in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Volunteers also appeared in the championship match in 2004, but lost 2-1 to third-seeded Florida in a double match. over time. After dropping their first-round matchups in 2000 and 2001, Kelly’s teams went on an eight-game unbeaten streak and won back-to-back tournaments in 2002 and 2003. Kelly’s teams are all 1-1-1. Times played against LSU in the SEC Football Tournament: 2-0 in the first round of the 2005 tournament, W (Nov. 3) 1-1 in the semifinals of the 2008 tournament, T (Nov. 7) 4-2 championship match after the penalty kick round. 2010 Tournament 1st round, overtime 0-1, L (November 4)
kick off:
The last time Texas and LSU met on the field was on Oct. 11, 2024, in Baton Rouge. Lexi Misimo, a four-time All-Conference selection for the Longhorns, became the program’s new leader in career goals when the Southlake native ended her career with her teammates. My best friend Trinity Byers (52) has goal number 53. Misimo enters Tuesday’s game as the active leader among Division I women’s soccer student-athletes in career goals with 56. Four more goals and Missimo will become the first Division I women’s champion. Student-athlete in soccer becomes the first to reach the 60-goal, 60-assist milestone since Notre Dame’s Kelly Hanks (2005-08). A win over LSU on Tuesday would mark the first time in program history that Texas has won its first postseason conference tournament game. The Longhorns lost 3-1 to Baylor in the first round of the 1996 Big 12 Tournament, UT’s first Big 12 Postseason Conference Tournament game. Carol Finch scored Texas’ only goal of the game on November 11, 1996, 48 minutes, 19 seconds into the game. If Lauren Lapomada is in the starting lineup for Tuesday’s game, she will set a program record for most games played in a career, starting with 92. , overtaking Casey Moore (2005-08) for the top spot. If Lexi Misimo scores against the Tigers, it will be the midfielder’s sixth consecutive goal, tying Trinity Byers (September 12, 2021 – September 30, 2021) for the longest consecutive goal streak. It turns out. Additionally, if Missimo scores a goal or records an assist, she will become the third student-athlete (Kelly Wilson, September 7, 2001 – October 14, 2001; Trinity Byers, September 25, 2001) ~October 30) 2022) Recorded 1 point in 9 consecutive games. If Mia Justus keeps a clean sheet on Tuesday, it will be her 11th of the season by a senior goalkeeper, and she will equal the single-season clean sheet record set by Nicole Curry throughout the 2017 season.
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