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11.05.2020 | Soccer
The Longhorns venture to Lubbock to close out the 2020 fall season
Match 9: Texas (4-4-0) at Texas Tech (1-4-2)
Time: Friday, Nov. 6 – 7 p.m. CT
Location: Lubbock, Texas (John Walker Soccer Complex)
Tickets: LINK
Live Stats: None available
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 with a 16-8-4 advantage in its all-time series against Texas Tech, including a 6-5-0 mark in Lubbock. The Red Raiders have won the last two meetings, including the most recent match-up at the John Walker Soccer Complex back on Oct. 25, 2018 (1-0). In all, 14 of the last 15 contests in the series have been settled by one goal or required overtime.
- Texas head coach Angela Kelly is closing in on another coaching milestone in her 21st season, entering Friday's match at Texas Tech with 249 career wins. The Brantford, Ontario, native needs just one more "W" to reach the 250-career win plateau.
- Senior goalkeeper Savannah Madden was honored on Tuesday for her outstanding play against Baylor as the San Diego, Calif., native picked up her first career selections to the Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week and as the Big 12 Conference Goalkeeper of the Week. Madden tied her career-high by making 10 saves during the 1-0 shutout of the Bears at Mike A. Myers Stadium.
- 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)
- UT is 22-3-1 since the start of the 2018 season when scoring first in a match and 4-0-0 in such contests in 2020.
- Senior midfielder/forward Haley Berg enters Friday having totaled at least one point in four of her last six 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.
- 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.
- After going just 2-8 in one-goal matches back in 2016, the Longhorns have turned around their fortunes by going 28-14 in their last 42 one-goal matches since beginning 2017.
- The Longhorns have spread the scoring around so far in this abbreviated 2020 campaign as seven different Texas players have scored goals and 10 different players have tallied at least one point.
