No. 21 Soccer snaps skid, bounces back into win column

Sunday, October 1

Lawrence, KS

1 PM

University of Texas

8-3-2, 2-2-1

Kansas

3-4-6, 0-3-2

Texas

Kansas

Photo by: Bill Purnell

No. 21 Soccer snaps skid, bounces back into win column

10.01.2023 | Soccer

Box Score

Texas is now 13-0-3 over their last 16 matches during the month of October following Sunday’s win

By: Chris Allen Brown

LAWRENCE, Kansas – For the sixth time in her collegiate soccer career, Trinity Byars recorded a brace — two-goal performance — as the Longhorns traveled to the Sunflower State and knocked off Kansas, 2-1, on Sunday afternoon.

It took the entire 45-minute first half and then an additional 11 minutes before either team broke through in the goal column as Trinity Byars netted her 12th on the season after taking a loose pass from Kansas' goalkeeper in the 18-yard box and burying it to push the Longhorns ahead.

20 minutes later, Byars was credited with her second brace of the season as the junior forward took a final-third pass from Lexi Missimo and Liz Worden and put it into the back of the net. It marked the seventh time this season and 18th time in their collegiate soccer careers that Missimo was credited with an assist on a Byars goal.

FROM HEAD COACH ANGELA KELLY

"You have to give credit to Kansas; they were well organized. It was another hot day. We thought we were coming to Kansas, where it would be a little chillier, but it's a Sunday afternoon. Our first goal, credit to Lexi and Trinity up top and the team pressing, that was great. Then the second goal was a true futbol goal: ping, ping, ping. It was a really nice goal. This team gives everything all the time, so it was really important for us to get back in the win column. I'm just really, really pleased with the collective effort."

MATCH NOTES

With her second-half assist, Lexi Missimo comes to within two points of tying Kelly Wilson's single-season point record (46) set during the 2004 campaign.
By finishing Sunday's match with a brace, Trinity Byars is now just one point shy of becoming the first student-athlete in program history to be credited with multiple 40-point seasons.
Lexi Missimo (14) and Trinity Byars (13) are now the highest-scoring pair of Longhorn women's soccer student-athletes in the program's single-season history with a combined 27 goals between the two throughout the 2023 season.
With her second-half assist on Trinity Byars' goal, Lexi Missimo surpassed her 2022 assist total (15) to set a new single-season assist record (16).
- Missimo has either tied or set the program's single-season assist record in each of her last three seasons.
Sophomore defender Toni Lopez earned her first career collegiate start. The Florida native went on to play a career-high 90 minutes on the Longhorn back line that limited the Jayhawks to only four shots throughout the match.
The Longhorn victory was the 150th all-time win against a current Big 12 Conference foe.
Texas has now beaten Kansas 20 times throughout the Longhorns' 30-year history. The Jayhawks join Iowa State (25) as the only opponents Texas has beaten 20-or-more times.

UP NEXT

After keeping its perfect road record intact on Sunday afternoon, Texas (8-3-2, 2-2-1) will conclude its two-match road tilt with a road trip to Orlando to face off against No. 19 UCF (8-3-0, 4-1-0) on Thursday, Oct. 5.

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