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No. 17 Soccer preview: Cal State Bakersfield
08.17.2024 | Soccer
Texas to welcome Cal State Bakersfield to Austin for first-ever meeting
AUSTIN, Texas – Three days after welcoming Houston to Mike A. Myers Stadium, The University of Texas women's soccer program will, again, square off against an opponent on the friendly confines of the Forty Acres, where the Longhorns will take on Cal State Bakersfield at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 18.
Sunday's match will mark the first time Texas has hosted back-to-back matches to open the regular season since the 2022 campaign, when the Longhorns beat Lipscomb, 5-0, to begin the season, before falling to then-No. 1 North Carolina, 2-0. UT did, however, respond from that match by beating Florida, 3-2, at home three days later.
TELEVISION: Chris Sylvester and Jessica Stamp will serve as the play-by-play and analyst, respectively, on the scheduled SEC Network+ broadcast that will be available to stream on the ESPN app.
KICKING OFF
- Sunday afternoon's match will mark the first-ever women's soccer match between the Texas Longhorns and Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners.
- It will also mark the first time a team from the state of California has traveled to Texas to play the Longhorns in Austin since Aug. 30, 2018, when Long Beach State came to the Forty Acres for a match.
- UT won the match against LBSU, 2-1.
- It will also mark the first time a team from the state of California has traveled to Texas to play the Longhorns in Austin since Aug. 30, 2018, when Long Beach State came to the Forty Acres for a match.
- If Texas' fourth-year senior Trinity Byars scores a hat trick against the Roadrunners, she'll become the first student-athlete in UT women's soccer program history to net 50 career goals.
- Byars, who is currently the program's active leader in career goals, will enter Sunday's match with 47 on 102 career shots on goal.
- When she takes the pitch against Cal State Bakersfield, Madison Haugen will appear in her 80th career Division I collegiate women's soccer match.
- In four seasons as a member of the Georgia Bulldog program, Haugen appeared in 78 career matches and will reach the milestone with her second appearances as a Longhorn since joining the UT program as a graduate transfer.
- Additionally, Lauren Lapomarda will also reach the 80-career match plateau against the Roadrunners on Sunday.
- Lapomarda is currently the program's active leader in career matches played as all 79 collegiate women's soccer matches plated in has occurred while wearing the Burnt Orange and White of the Texas Longhorns.
- A win over Cal State Bakersfield on Sunday, Aug. 18 would give Texas a 2-0 start to a regular season for the second consecutive season, tying the best start to a season since 2017.
- In 2017, the Longhorns opened the season with 11 consecutive victories before earning back-to-back double overtime draws for an 11-0-2 mark before dropping its first match on Oct. 13 at Kansas, where the Jayhawks won 2-1.
- There are two California natives on the 2024 Texas women's soccer roster: Megan Hogate and Molly MacMillan.
- Both Hogate (Orange, Calif.; two hours, 31 minutes) and MacMillan (Mission Viejo, Calif.; two hours, 49 minutes) grew up less than three hours from the campus of Cal State Bakersfield.
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