The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Friday, October 18
Waco, Texas
7 p.m. CT
University of Texas
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Baylor
Soccer preview: at Baylor
10.17.2019 | Soccer
The Longhorns head back out on the road for a Friday night Big 12 showdown in Waco
Match 15: Texas (8-6-0, 3-2-0 Big 12) at Baylor (6-4-3, 2-2-0 Big 12)
Time: Friday, Oct. 18 – 7 p.m. CT
Location: Waco, Texas (Betty Lou Mays Soccer Field)
Tickets: LINK
Live Stats: LINK
TV: The match will be broadcast live on Big 12 Now on ESPN+ and can be watched online through this LINK.
Free Kicks:
- Texas enters Friday's contest at Baylor holding a 13-9-4 all-time advantage over the Bears, including a 6-3-2 mark in Waco. The series has often been closely contested as the last 14 match-ups between the two teams have either been settled by one-goal or required extra time. Texas is 4-2-1 in the last seven overall meetings and hasn't lost in Waco since Oct. 19, 2012 (fell 2-1 in OT).
- Texas heads into Friday's contest still very much alive in the race for the Big 12 regular-season title with just four league matches remaining. The Longhorns currently hold down the No. 3 spot with nine points, trailing only Texas Tech (11 points) and Oklahoma State (10 points).
- A pair of Longhorns goalkeepers (redshirt junior Nicole Curry and junior Savannah Madden) have combined to make saving penalty kicks a habit over the past two seasons, successfully stopping each of the last three opponent penalties taken in regulation time. Curry made a first-half PK save vs. Kansas back on Oct. 19, 2018, and another late in the second half against Oklahoma State last Friday night, while Madden stopped a PK with five seconds left in regulation to preserve the 2019 season-opening, 4-3 win over Gonzaga. In addition, Curry saved two-of-four PK's as UT advanced past Kansas in a 2018 Big 12 Championship quarterfinal shootout (3-1).
- Texas is 16-1-1 over the past two seasons when scoring first in a match and a perfect 6-0-0 when doing so during the 2019 campaign.
- The Longhorns have now won 25 consecutive matches in which they scored two-or-more goals in a contest dating back to the start of the 2017 season. The last time Texas failed to win when tickling the twine on two occasions was in a 3-2 defeat at TCU back on Oct. 28, 2016.
- Texas holds a 22-21-3 overall record in matches following a loss (that total doesn't carry over losses from end of a season to the next) under the guidance of head coach Angela Kelly. UT is 2-3 after defeats so far during the 2019 campaign.
- With time running short, Texas' offense seems to step up to the challenge as SIX of the Longhorns 2019 match-winning goals have come in the 62nd-minute or later. Three of those (Gonzaga, at Kansas State, TCU) have been scored in the 81st-minute or later with the last two occurring at the 86:02 (K-State) and 87:34 (TCU) marks. In all, six of Texas' eight match-winning goals this season have been scored during the second half.
- Call her "Clutch Cyera' as senior forward Cyera Hintzen has scored a remarkable seven career match-winning goals in the 81st-minute or later following her 88th-minute goal to beat TCU on Thursday, 1-0. Two of those have come this season (previously scored to beat Gonzaga at 80:56 on Aug. 22).
- Due to graduation attrition and injuries, Texas has been forced to lean on a myriad of young players to fill out the starting XI so far in 2019. In all, 65-of-154 possible starts (42%) have gone to freshmen and sophomores. Including juniors, EIGHT Longhorns players have also earned their first starts in the Burnt Orange & White this year (midfielders Kailey Smith & Carlee Allen; forwards Sydney Nobles & Teni Akindoju; defenders Maddie Dorsett, Cameron Brooks & Peyton McGee; goalkeeper Savannah Madden).
- After going just 2-8 in one-goal matches back in 2016, the Longhorns have since turned around their fortunes in such contests by going 22-11 in their last 33 one-goal matches since beginning 2017 (4-3 so far in 2019).
- Junior midfielder Haley Berg has been riding quite the hot streak lately having SCORED SIX GOALS AND DISHED FIVE ASSISTS OVER TEXAS' LAST 11 MATCHES. She is currently second in the Big 12 in assists (ranked 30th in NCAA Division I as of Oct. 14) and recently tied for the sixth-longest goal-scoring streak in school history by tickling the twine in three straight contests from Sept. 6-13.
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