No. 17 Soccer nets season-high seven goals

Thursday, September 7

Austin, TX

7 PM

University of Texas

6-1-0, 0-0-0

Stephen F. Austin

1-6-0, 0-0-0

SFA

Texas

09.07.2023 | Soccer

Box Score

Texas scores seven goals in rout of Stephen F. Austin, most in series history

By: Chris Allen Brown

AUSTIN, TX – Behind three different student-athletes scoring their first career collegiate goals, The University of Texas tied a program record with its fourth consecutive shutout behind a 7-0 victory against Stephen F. Austin.

Thursday night's match started with a seasoned goal scorer — Trinity Byars — pushing her 10th goal on the season into the back of the net less than 14 minutes into the action.

And then 23 minutes later, the energy level was taken to a new level following Lauren Lapomarda's first career goal off an entry pass into the 6-yard box from Jilly Shimkin. The senior defender briefly celebrated with her on-field teammates before racing towards the Texas bench area to celebrate with the rest of her teammates.

Following the first two of Lexi Missimo's three goals on the evening, a pair of freshmen — Carly Montgomery and Arianna Brothers — were able to join the stat sheet. Montgomery on a header in the box off a Missimo cross and Brothers on a strike near the spot on a Byars' pass.

Following Brothers' goal, the Texas program now had 11 different student-athletes who have scored at least one goal this season, including all three freshmen in Montgomery, Brothers and Avery Clark.

FROM HEAD COACH ANGELA KELLY

"To be able to score your first collegiate goal is always an exciting night. Overall, I was really pleased with the response in the second half and credit SFA. We knew they were going to battle, and I thought we moved the ball better in the second half."

FROM SENIOR DEFENDER LAUREN LAPOMARDA

"(My goal) was just a very special moment and I'm grateful to be able to do it with my teammates. We — the outside backs — have been really working on getting up (in the attacking third) and being able to help the offensive attack. (The goal) was just really special. That's all I can say."

MATCH NOTES

Texas junior midfielder Lexi Missimo tied the program record with 10 points on the evening after finishing the match with four assists and three goals.
- Missimo becomes the first student-athlete to accomplish the feat since Carol Finch (four goals, two assists) did so against Pittsburgh on Sept. 1, 1996.
Lexi Missimo also recorded her third career four-assist match and second this season.
- No other student-athlete in program history has recorded more than one.
In just seven matches this season, Lexi Missimo has already tied the program's single-season assist record with 15.
- Missimo set the record last season.
- Missimo also has the top three single-season assist marks in program history.
  - 15 (2023)
  - 15 (2022)
  - 14 (2021)
    - She shares the 14-assist mark with Kelly Wilson (2004).
With her first-half goal at the 13-minute mark, Trinity Byars joined Kelly McDonald as the only student-athletes in program history to record three seasons with 10-or-more goals.
- McDonald accomplished the feat in 2001 (10), 2002 (14) and 2003 (14).
- Byars has done so in 2021 (12), 2022 (17) and 2023 (10).
With her 10-point performance on the evening, Lexi Missimo tied Kelsey Carpenter (2006) for the most points by a junior student-athlete in a single season with 35.
- Missimo is only 11 points shy of tying Kelly Wilson (46, 2004) for the program's single-season record.
The 19 seconds between Arianna Brothers and Lexi Missimo's second-half goals were five seconds longer than the program record for fastest consecutive Texas goals (:14) set by Katie Baruth and Valerie Page against Kansas on Sept. 15, 1996.

UP NEXT

The No. 17 Texas (6-1-0) will face its first ranked opponent on the season when the Longhorns link up against No. 23 Gonzaga at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 10 at Mike A Myers Stadium.
- It'll be the first top-25 showdown for Texas at home since playing then-No. 22 Oklahoma State on Oct. 27, 2017, when the Cowgirls knocked off then-No. 8 Texas, 1-0, in overtime.
- The last time a top-25 ranked Texas team beat a top-25 ranked opponent at home was on Sept. 24, 2017, when the then-No. 17 Longhorns beat then-No. 5 West Virginia, 1-0.

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