The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
University of Texas
#12 Oklahoma State
Soccer preview: at No. 12 Oklahoma State
10.22.2020 | Soccer
The Longhorns venture to Stillwater to face-off against the nationally-ranked Cowgirls live on ESPNU
Match 7: Texas (3-3-0) at #12 Oklahoma State (3-2-1)
Time: Friday, Oct. 23 – 6 p.m. CT
Location: Stillwater, Okla. (Neal Patterson Stadium)
Tickets: Regular season single-game tickets will be available for purchase at Neal Patterson Stadium on match day. Tickets will be $5 for general admission and $10 for reserved. Locations are limited and will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Live Stats: LINK
TV: The match will be broadcast live on ESPNU and can be watched online through this LINK.
Free Kicks:
- Texas enters Friday night with a 10-12-7 all-time record against Oklahoma State, including a 3-4-5 mark in Stillwater. The Cowgirls have been in control of the series since the Longhorns' last win back on Oct. 5, 2012, going 5-0-3 against UT over the last eight matches from 2013-2019. In all, 15 of the last 16 meetings between the two programs have been settled by one goal or required overtime.
- The Longhorns defense enters Friday's match on a season-long shutout streak of 253:22 dating back to the 16:48 mark of the contest at No. 7 West Virginia. As part of that, senior goalkeeper Savannah Madden has posted consecutive shutouts for the first time in her career (Kansas State, Iowa State), while her 253:22 shutout skein is a career-long.
- Senior midfielder/forward Haley Berg is currently riding a four-match point-scoring streak for the second time in her illustrious career, tying her career-long point-scoring streak set from Oct. 7-21, 2018. Berg enters having scored a goal in consecutive matches (Kansas State, Iowa State) for the fifth time in her career (career long is three straight contests from Sept. 6-13, 2019) and having tallied match-winners in consecutive games for the first time in her career.
- With her goal at 2:01 of the 7-0 thrashing of Kansas State (Oct. 9), senior midfielder/forward Haley Berg officially entered the Texas career top 10 for goals. Check out where Berg currently ranks in the career record books below:
Category Total Career Rank Needs to move up in record book
Assists 18 Tie-7th needs two more assists to tie for 6th (20)
Points 62 9th needs one more point to tie for 8th (63)
Goals 22 Tie-7th needs two more goals to tie for 6th (24)
Match winners 8 Tie-6th needs one more winner to tie for 5th (9)
- Junior midfielder Julia Grosso recently scored goals in consecutive matches for the first time in her standout career by tickling the twine against No. 7 West Virginia (Oct. 2) and Kansas State (Oct. 9). Over the past two years, Grosso has scored 10 goals on her last 25 shots on frame (40% shot efficiency).
- Talk about wasting no time! Freshman midfielder Sophia Claros earned her first career collegiate playing time against Kansas State (Oct. 9) by entering the contest as a sub at the 87:49 mark. She needed just 35 SECONDS to get on the stat sheet by recording her first career assist on Kailey Smith's goal at 88:24.
- The seven-goal wipeout of Kansas State (Oct. 9) led to more national honors for the Longhorns as junior midfielder Julia Grosso was named to the Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (Oct. 13), while freshman forward Presley Echols picked up her second honorable mention nod of the season. It's the second time Texas has boasted two Top Drawer Soccer honorees in 2020 after senior midfielder/forward Haley Berg made the full 11-member squad (Sept. 29) and Echols (first career goal in her collegiate debut) reaped an honorable mention selection after combining on the goal to beat Oklahoma (Sept. 25), 1-0.
- With her 63rd-minute match-winning score against Oklahoma, freshman forward Presley Echols became the first Longhorns freshman to score a goal in her collegiate debut since then-rookie forward Sydney Nobles tickled the twine in the 2019 season opener against Gonzaga.
- The Longhorns have won 29 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.
- UT is 21-3-1 since the start of the 2018 season when scoring first in a match and 3-0-0 in such contests in 2020.
- After going just 2-8 in one-goal matches back in 2016, the Longhorns have turned around their fortunes by going 27-14 in their last 41 one-goal matches since beginning 2017.
