Sunday, August 25
Denton
1 p.m.
University of North Texas
vs
Texas Southern
Photo by: Ben Stewart
Mean Green Aim To Continue Hot Start
8/24/2019 9:40:00 PM | Women's Soccer
DENTON — After what was its third largest season opening win in program history, a 7-0 blowout of Northwestern State on Thursday night, the Mean Green soccer team will look to follow up their performance up on Sunday at 1 p.m. when they host Texas Southern.
Sunday's match will be broadcasted on CUSA.tv.
UNT (1-0) not only shutout the Lady Demons on Thursday but held them to no shots attempts for the entire match. North Texas overmatched NSU in the second-half. In the back half of the match they netted five of their seven goals including three over a three-minute time span. The Mean Green last season, who were conference champs and ranked in the top 25, never scored more than four goals in entire match all of last year.
Berklee Peters and Logan Bruffett led the way offensively for UNT in the win.
Peters, a junior from Keller was the third-leading scorer on last season's squad but with Aaliyah Nolan and Taylor Torres graduating she entered this season as the program's leading goal scorer. Bruffett, also a junior, has slowly transitioned into more of an offensive role over the past year but played like a veteran forward on Thursday. In the 63 minutes of game action, the Rockwall native put constant pressure on the keeper's box and net. Bruffett fired four shots in the match, putting a team-high three on net. Her one shot that missed the net was a missile off her right foot that she shot outside of the box but just sailed it a little north.
Head coach John Hedlund had said prior to this season that he was confident in his team's defense, which was one of the best in the nation last year as they gave up just 13 goals, but if the offense could come together early in the year that they could be even more dangerous than last year's team that went 15-3-3 and won a conference title for a fifth straight season.
UNT's seven goals scored on Thursday were the most goals they've scored against a division I opponent since Sept. 9, 2016 when they scored seven against Texas Southern in a 7-1 victory in Denton. TSU (0-1) lost its season opener on Friday to Tulsa, 7-0.
Sunday will be the seventh all-time meeting between UNT and TSU. They first met in 2010 and North Texas has outscored them in the six prior matches by a combined score of 38-2. IN four of the six previous meetings, a UNT player recorded a hat trick, Kelsey Hodges (2010), Michelle Young (2011), Rachel Holden (2013 and 2016).
Sunday's match will be broadcasted on CUSA.tv.
UNT (1-0) not only shutout the Lady Demons on Thursday but held them to no shots attempts for the entire match. North Texas overmatched NSU in the second-half. In the back half of the match they netted five of their seven goals including three over a three-minute time span. The Mean Green last season, who were conference champs and ranked in the top 25, never scored more than four goals in entire match all of last year.
Berklee Peters and Logan Bruffett led the way offensively for UNT in the win.
Peters, a junior from Keller was the third-leading scorer on last season's squad but with Aaliyah Nolan and Taylor Torres graduating she entered this season as the program's leading goal scorer. Bruffett, also a junior, has slowly transitioned into more of an offensive role over the past year but played like a veteran forward on Thursday. In the 63 minutes of game action, the Rockwall native put constant pressure on the keeper's box and net. Bruffett fired four shots in the match, putting a team-high three on net. Her one shot that missed the net was a missile off her right foot that she shot outside of the box but just sailed it a little north.
Head coach John Hedlund had said prior to this season that he was confident in his team's defense, which was one of the best in the nation last year as they gave up just 13 goals, but if the offense could come together early in the year that they could be even more dangerous than last year's team that went 15-3-3 and won a conference title for a fifth straight season.
UNT's seven goals scored on Thursday were the most goals they've scored against a division I opponent since Sept. 9, 2016 when they scored seven against Texas Southern in a 7-1 victory in Denton. TSU (0-1) lost its season opener on Friday to Tulsa, 7-0.
Sunday will be the seventh all-time meeting between UNT and TSU. They first met in 2010 and North Texas has outscored them in the six prior matches by a combined score of 38-2. IN four of the six previous meetings, a UNT player recorded a hat trick, Kelsey Hodges (2010), Michelle Young (2011), Rachel Holden (2013 and 2016).
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