Soccer's NCAA Record Unbeaten Streak Ends

Sunday, September 18

1 PM CT

University of North Texas

5-4-1, 1-1-0

Florida Atlantic

5-3-2, 1-0-0

Fla. Atlantic

North Texas

Photo by: Zach Del Bello

9/18/2022 3:41:00 PM | Women's Soccer

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DENTON — The North Texas women's soccer team's 65-match home conference match unbeaten streak, which dates to 2008, came to end Sunday as the Mean Green lost 1-0 to Florida Atlantic at home.

The home conference match unbeaten streak is an NCAA Women's Soccer DI record.

The Mean Green (5-4-1, 1-1-0) conceded a very early seventh minute goal to the Owls (5-3-2, 1-0-0) after failing to clear a ball out of their six-yard box. Despite the early goal, UNT's defense still managed to keep FAU's offense at bay as they only took four total shots in the whole match.

As the match progressed North Texas' attack, that enter Sunday averaging three goals per match, struggled to get clean looks. In the 80th minute the Mean Green thought they had scored the equalizer on a Summer Brown goal but it was waived off for offsides.

In the final seconds, Taylor Tufts struck a shot from the top of the box to the bottom right corner of the goal but was just wide of the post.

"This one hurts, because I thought we were clearly the better team throughout the game but give them credit," said head coach John Hedlund. "They capitalized early on a miss clear and from there they did a great job defensively bunkering in and maintaining that 1-0 lead."

"As far as the record of not losing a home conference game in over ten years, I just want to thank all of the great players and coaches that were a part of that amazing streak," Hedund added. "It's a record that I'm very proud of and will probably stand for a long time in all sports."

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