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Women’s Soccer Embarks on Crucial Road Trip to Texas
10/18/2018 10:34:00 AM | Women's Soccer
BOCA RATON, Fla. – Sitting atop the Conference USA standings, the Florida Atlantic University women's soccer team looks to cement that place in two key road matchups this weekend in Texas, taking on the team right behind them on the league ledger, North Texas, and the defending C-USA regular season champions, Rice.
The winner between the Owls (9-6-1, 6-0-1 C-USA) and Mean Green (10-1-2, 5-0-1 C-USA) on Friday night would go a long way towards a potential regular season title. That match will have an 8 p.m. Eastern start. Then FAU goes right back at it again on Sunday afternoon, taking on the league's other Owls (5-7-1, 3-3-1 C-USA), at 2 p.m. Eastern.
Owls' Week in Review
FAU wrapped the home slate this past week with a scoreless draw against Old Dominion and a Senior Day victory Sunday, 1-0 over Middle Tennessee. With those two shutouts, Jennifer Ocampo earned her second C-USA Goalkeeper of the Week recognition of the season and fourth over the last two years.
Owls' Week in Preview
Like the Owls, North Texas has gotten to this point on the conference schedule without a loss and just the one tie. The Mean Green are 3-0 in Denton this year in C-USA play. Overall since joining the league in 2013, they are 26-0-2 at Mean Green Soccer Stadium. Going back four years prior in the Sun Belt, they were an additional 18-0-1 in home league matches. In fact, the last time North Texas was defeated on their home field in a conference match was by Denver, 3-0, on Oct. 31, 2008, 48 matches ago.
Rice has rebounded from a 1-3 start against C-USA foes to top Louisiana Tech (3-0) and Marshall (2-1) before tying WKU this past Sunday, 3-3. Those seven points have put the western Owls into a tie for eighth place with ODU, with eight teams qualifying for the C-USA Championship. This time last year, Rice was on their way to winning their first nine league regular season matches before a finale tie, in Denton, with North Texas.
Opponent History
The Owls and Mean Green have not met in either of the last two regular seasons, but the two teams did match up in both of those years' respective C-USA Championships. Two seasons ago in Charlotte, FAU topped NT, 3-2 in the semifinal round, but NT got a measure of revenge in Boca Raton last year, also in the semis, winning 2-0. That put the series at a 10-2-0 Mean Green advantage, which includes, of course, an undefeated mark in Denton of 5-0.
The Owls and Owls' series is 3-1 in favor of Rice. Last year in Houston was a Rice win, as was the year prior in Boca Raton. The FAU victory came in 2015, a dramatic win in double overtime. Rice tied things with just two seconds to go in regulation, but FAU recovered to win in the 102nd minute by the score of 3-2.
After This
Just one more regular season match remains for the Owls following this weekend, and it too will be on the road, but much closer than the Lone Star State. FAU will travel south to face FIU on Friday, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. The next week is the beginning of the 2018 C-USA Championship, hosted by Old Dominion in Norfolk, Virginia, with the quarterfinal round set for Oct. 31.
The winner between the Owls (9-6-1, 6-0-1 C-USA) and Mean Green (10-1-2, 5-0-1 C-USA) on Friday night would go a long way towards a potential regular season title. That match will have an 8 p.m. Eastern start. Then FAU goes right back at it again on Sunday afternoon, taking on the league's other Owls (5-7-1, 3-3-1 C-USA), at 2 p.m. Eastern.
Owls' Week in Review
FAU wrapped the home slate this past week with a scoreless draw against Old Dominion and a Senior Day victory Sunday, 1-0 over Middle Tennessee. With those two shutouts, Jennifer Ocampo earned her second C-USA Goalkeeper of the Week recognition of the season and fourth over the last two years.
Owls' Week in Preview
Like the Owls, North Texas has gotten to this point on the conference schedule without a loss and just the one tie. The Mean Green are 3-0 in Denton this year in C-USA play. Overall since joining the league in 2013, they are 26-0-2 at Mean Green Soccer Stadium. Going back four years prior in the Sun Belt, they were an additional 18-0-1 in home league matches. In fact, the last time North Texas was defeated on their home field in a conference match was by Denver, 3-0, on Oct. 31, 2008, 48 matches ago.
Rice has rebounded from a 1-3 start against C-USA foes to top Louisiana Tech (3-0) and Marshall (2-1) before tying WKU this past Sunday, 3-3. Those seven points have put the western Owls into a tie for eighth place with ODU, with eight teams qualifying for the C-USA Championship. This time last year, Rice was on their way to winning their first nine league regular season matches before a finale tie, in Denton, with North Texas.
Opponent History
The Owls and Mean Green have not met in either of the last two regular seasons, but the two teams did match up in both of those years' respective C-USA Championships. Two seasons ago in Charlotte, FAU topped NT, 3-2 in the semifinal round, but NT got a measure of revenge in Boca Raton last year, also in the semis, winning 2-0. That put the series at a 10-2-0 Mean Green advantage, which includes, of course, an undefeated mark in Denton of 5-0.
The Owls and Owls' series is 3-1 in favor of Rice. Last year in Houston was a Rice win, as was the year prior in Boca Raton. The FAU victory came in 2015, a dramatic win in double overtime. Rice tied things with just two seconds to go in regulation, but FAU recovered to win in the 102nd minute by the score of 3-2.
After This
Just one more regular season match remains for the Owls following this weekend, and it too will be on the road, but much closer than the Lone Star State. FAU will travel south to face FIU on Friday, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. The next week is the beginning of the 2018 C-USA Championship, hosted by Old Dominion in Norfolk, Virginia, with the quarterfinal round set for Oct. 31.
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