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Soccer preview: Baylor
10.29.2020 | Soccer
The Longhorns welcome in the Bears for the final home match of the abbreviated 2020 fall campaign
Match 8: Baylor (2-2-3) at Texas (3-4-0)
Time: Friday, Oct. 30 – 7 p.m. CT
Location: Austin, Texas (Mike A. Myers Stadium & Soccer Field/20,000)
Tickets: Admission is FREE for all fans
Parking: Fans are required to buy parking in advance for Manor Garage for $4 through Click-and-Park here: LINK
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Live Stats: LINK
TV: The match will be broadcast live on Longhorn Network (accessible through WATCHESPN with certain cable providers) and can be watched online through this LINK.
Free Kicks:
- Texas enters Friday with a 14-9-4 advantage in its all-time series against Baylor, including a 7-3-2 mark in contests in Austin. The Longhorns have gone 5-2-1 over the past eight match-ups, while each of the last 15 meetings in the series have been settled by one goal or required overtime.
- Senior midfielder/forward Haley Berg enters Friday having totaled at least one point in four of her last five matches. She recently equaled her career-long point scoring streak of four matches by tallying at least one point from Sept. 25 vs. Oklahoma to Oct. 16 vs. Iowa State. She had previously accomplished that feat from Oct. 7-21, 2018.
- Texas head coach Angela Kelly is closing in on another coaching milestone in her 21st season, entering Friday's match against Baylor with 248 career wins. With victories in the Longhorns' final two fall matches against Baylor and Texas Tech, she would reach the 250-win plateau.
- The Longhorns have spread the scoring around so far in this abbreviated 2020 campaign as seven different Texas players have scored goals and nine different players have tallied at least one point.
- 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)
- The Longhorns defense recently posted a season-long shutout streak of 265:11 stretching from the 16:48 mark of the contest at No. 7 West Virginia (Oct. 2) to the 11:49 mark of the match at No. 7 Oklahoma State (Oct. 23). As part of that skein, senior goalkeeper Savannah Madden posted consecutive shutouts for the first time in her career (Kansas State, Iowa State), while her shutout streak of 265-plus minutes was a career-best.
- 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 27 shots on frame (37% 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.
