No. 17 Soccer nets four goals, earns second victory

Sunday, August 18

Austin, Texas

1 PM

University of Texas

2-0-0, 0-0-0

Cal State Bakersfield

0-2-0, 0-0-0

CSU Bakersfield

Texas

No. 17 Soccer nets four goals, earns second victory

08.18.2024 | Soccer

Box Score

Freshman Rosa Maalouf scores first career goal in collegiate debut.

By: Chris Allen Brown

AUSTIN, Texas – Three days after scoring only one goal in their season-opening victory, the Texas Longhorn offense turned up the pressure valve on Sunday afternoon by scoring four goals within a 20-minute span en route to earning a 4-0 win over Cal State Bakersfield, marking UT's first-ever win against the Roadrunners.

After both teams traded possession throughout the match's first 30 minutes, it wasn't until Lauren Lapomarda connected with Chloe Shimkin, who found Avery Clark in the box on a cross that the 5-foot-11 forward headed past CSUB goalkeeper Hollee Hercik for the match's first goal.

Nearly nine minutes later, Rosa Maalouf sent Texas into the locker room for halftime with a 2-0 lead after the freshman from Canada first a strike from well outside the 18-yard box that went past the outstretched, diving arms of Hercik and into the top-left corner of the goal for her first career collegiate goal.

Welcome to Austin, Rosa 🤘#HookEm | @MaaloufRosa pic.twitter.com/tadbObojD0
— Texas Soccer (@TexasSoccer) August 18, 2024

The two-goal Longhorn lead was doubled over a five-minute stretch to begin the second half after Trinity Byars found the back of the net for the first time this season at the 46th minute, before Lexi Missimo made it two-goals-in-two-matches for the senior with a goal at the 50-minute mark.

FROM HEAD COACH ANGELA KELLY

"What we showed today was a lot of versatility throughout our squad and, obviously, our young freshmen are talented. It's exciting to be able to watch this group continue to mesh together. I'm pleased with the performances by those individuals who stepped up off the bench. They gave us a big lift in the first half. It was great to see."

FROM FRESHMAN AMALIA VILLARREAL

"I thought we did a really good job of executing our game plan."

MATCH NOTES

With a clean sheet against the Roadrunners on Sunday afternoon, it marked the first time Texas has started a season with back-to-back clean sheets victories at home since Aug. 26 and Aug. 28, 2005 against SMU (1-0) and Auburn (2-0), respectively.
- The Longhorns also opened the accomplished the feat in 1995 and 1999 to bring the grand total to four occasions.
Rosa Maalouf became the first Longhorn women's soccer student-athlete to score in her Texas debut since Abby Allen scored the game-winning goal at Long Beach State on Aug. 17, 2023.
- Maalouf is the first true freshman to score at least one goal in her collegiate soccer debut since Liz Worden netted two goals in 59 minutes against Lipscomb on Aug. 18, 2022.
With Lexi Missimo's second-half goal against the Roadrunners, it marks the first time since 2018 and 2019 that a Texas Longhorn has scored at least one goal in the first two matches of a season in back-to-back seasons:
- 2024 – Lexi Missimo
- 2023 – Trinity Byars
- 2019 – Cyera Hintzen
- 2018 – Cyera Hintzen
Texas' 36 shots against the Cal State Bakersfield defense marked the most in a single match by a Longhorn unit since setting the program's single-match record with 54 against Texas Southern on Sept. 15, 2022.

UP NEXT

Texas (2-0) will look to earn its third win in as many matches of the 2024 season when the Longhorns travel up I-35 to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex to play SMU at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22.

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