Match Info	Opponent Info
St. Mary's vs. UT Tyler STMU: 4-2-1, 2-0 LSC | UTT: 5-1-1, 0-1-0 LSC Wednesday, Oct. 2nd | 5:30 p.m. Tyler, Texas | Citizen's 1st Bank-Perkins Soccer Complex		ROSTER	SCHEDULE	STATS
UT Tyler at Eastern New Mexico UTT: 5-1-1, 01-1 LSC | ENMU: 2-3-1, 1-1 LSC Saturday, Oct. 5th | 11:30 a.m. CST Portales, N.M. | Steve Loy Family Foundation Stadium		ROSTER	SCHEDULE	STATS

COACH WEBB PRESS CONFERENCE

On last week's LSC openers against St. Edward's and Midwestern State... "Against St. Edward's, that's exactly how we want to coach a team to play, we just have to figure out how not to hit the crossbar. We did it again on Saturday, we hit the crossbar four times, missed a one-v-one and missed two wide open goals. Where we were at at the beginning of the year, playing free and relaxed, we need to get back to that. We've kind of tensed up, so we've got to get that fixed. We're playing some really good soccer right now, we just need to finish."

On what the team needs to do against St. Mary's and Eastern New Mexico to get back into the win column... "Honestly the message really came after the Midwestern State game. That was a really big game for us and fueled a fire that I have not seen in this team. Afterwards, the leadership of the group and where they took the postgame talk is everything that we needed to get back on track. They're focused. I would say that they feel like they have something to prove. We know St. Mary's is going to be good, they've always been at the top of the conference, and then Eastern New Mexico at Eastern New Mexico is going to be a very tough team to play against. We've got to focus on us and be the best version of ourselves."

LAST TIME OUT

A meeting between two top Lone Star Conference foes ended Midwestern State's way with a 2-1 decision on Saturday morning in Wichita Falls, Texas. The Patriots scored seven minutes into the second half on a penalty kick from Marin Love, but two goals from the Mustangs to close out the match resulted in UT Tyler's first defeat in 2024. UT Tyler moves to 5-1-1 on the year and 0-1-1 in Lone Star Conference play. Both teams established a good pace to the match as they combined for 34 shot attempts, 19 of which came from the Patriots.

The UT Tyler women's soccer team earned a result in their Lone Star Conference opener last Wednesday night with a 0-0 tie against St. Edward's. The Patriots rattled the post twice, once in each half, and controlled possession for the majority of the contest. With the result, the Patriots have gotten off to the best start in program history with a 5-0-1 record through their first six matches of 2024. Senior Launa Torrez put forth a quality chance in the 18^th minute on the Patriot's first shot attempt of the night. That effort was answered by the Hilltoppers keeper, but generated momentum for UT Tyler to the tune of four first half shots. Freshman Ella Anderson found the woodwork for the first time in the match for the Patriots in the 38^th minute, the first of her two shot attempts in the waning minutes of the first half.

PATRIOT NEWS AND NOTES

- UT Tyler made history last week, earning a result in the Lone Star Conference opener against St. Edward's to mark the best start to a season in program history. The Patriots earned a point towards the conference standings with the 0-0 tie and will face a critical pair of games this week. St. Mary's stands atop the LSC standings alongside Midwestern State with six points, while Eastern New Mexico is one of four teams in the league to have navigated the opening week of league play with three points.
- The Patriots have seen the majority of their success come on their home field during the Division II era and sit 19-11-10 as a Division II program at Citizen's 1st Bank-Perkins Soccer Complex. UT Tyler earned at least a result in all but one home match in 2023 with a 1-1-5 record and went 7-1-3 on their home pitch in 2022, making for an 12-2-9 record at home over the course of the last two seasons.
- UT Tyler ranks sixth nationally in scoring offense with an average of 3.14 goals per game and 18th in all of Division II women's soccer in goals against average at 0.429. The Patriots sit 8th in the country with an average of 20.00 shots per game.
- Junior Natalie Jones ranks fifth in the Lone Star Conference with 10 points on the year. The Patriots have already eclipsed their goal total from last season (17) seven matches into the schedule. Jones recorded a point in each of the first five matches to start the 2024 schedule.
- Marin Love, Samaris Alvarado and Katelyn Walerczyk have all scored multiple goals for UT Tyler. Love ranks second on the team with nine points while Alvarado and Walerczyk have each notched five points.
- Keeper Emily Clark has allowed just two goals in 450 minutes in goal this season. The Bullard, Texas native leads the LSC with a .400 goals against average and ranks second in the league with a save percentage at .893.
- Head coach Stefani Webb is in the midst of her 20th season at the helm of the program. Coach Webb is 205-97-35 (.657) in her tenure as head coach of the Patriots and sits 295-143-42 (.656) in her 26-year head coaching career.
- UT Tyler is in the midst of their sixth year of play in the Lone Star Conference. The Patriots hold an 11-32-15 mark in LSC games and are 7-10-10 at home in LSC games. UT Tyler made their inaugural LSC Women's Soccer Championship Tournament debut in 2021.
- The top seven seeds in the LSC standings at the end of the season will qualify for the 2024 Lone Star Conference Women's Soccer Championship Tournament. Quarterfinal matches will be held at campus sites on Tuesday, Nov. 12th, with semifinal and final matches set for Friday and Sunday of that week at the no. 1 overall seed's host site.

SCOUTING ST. MARY'S

- St. Mary's began LSC play with 7-1 and 2-0 wins against Sul Ross State and West Texas A&M last week. The Rattlers stand 4-2-1 entering Wednesday night's trip to Tyler. 
- The Rattlers lead the LSC with 140 shots in 2024 and are led offensively by Shelby Paniagua, who ranks second in the LSC with 12 points (four goals, four assists). Malia Dominguez ranks fourth in the LSC with 11 points and leads the team with five goals.
- St. Mary's has surrendered the second highest amount of goals in the conference this season (12), but has scored the second highest goal total (18). The Rattlers have been a very physical side, leading the league in fouls (76).
- St. Mary's has won each of the last two meetings between the two programs by 3-1 and 1-0 final tallies after UT Tyler won the inaugural contest back in 2019 by a 2-0 final.

SCOUTING EASTERN NEW MEXICO

- Eastern New Mexico will travel to Lubbock Christian on Wednesday night prior to Saturday's contest against the Patriots. The Greyhounds sit 1-1 in LSC play and 2-3-1 on the year after a 2-0 loss at West Texas A&M and a 1-0 win over Sul Ross State.
- The Greyhounds have been outscored by a 7-to-3 margin this season. All three goals for Eastern New Mexico have come from different scorers.
- UT Tyler is 0-2-2 all-time against Eastern New Mexico and have lost both meetings with the Greyhounds in Portales.