HAMMOND, La. – The Southeastern Louisiana women's soccer team will be back at home for the first time in nearly three weeks when it hosts Central Arkansas in a 4 p.m. Southland Conference match Friday at the Southeastern Soccer Complex.
Fans will be able to receive updates from the match between the Lady Lions (10-3, 3-2 Southland) and the visiting Bears (5-5-2, 1-2-1 Southland) via Twitter by following @SLUAthletics or @SLUSoccer.
With the conference season reaching its midpoint, Southeastern is currently third in the Southland Conference standings. The top six teams will advance to next month's Southland Conference Tournament in Beaumont, Texas.
Southeastern enters Friday's match having scored 41 goals on the season. Sophomore
Bri Singh leads the team with 11 goals. Freshman
Maggie Ramsey (seven) and junior
Kayla Vera (five) are the other top goal scorers.
Sophomore
Katie Noonan leads the team with nine assists. Ramsey and junior
Gisenia Utreras follow with five assists each.
In only her second season with the program, Singh is 10
th on the school's career list with 20 goals scored. Singh's 11 goals are the ninth-most in a season in school history, while Noonan's assist total is the seventh-highest in a season ever by a Lady Lion.
The back line of senior
Chelsea Villaescusa, junior
Erin Christ, sophomore
Alexsis Cable and senior
Jen Babcock have helped SLU hold opponents to nine goals this season. Sophomores
Hope Sabadash (0.54 goals against average) and
Casey Jeanfreau (1.05 GAA) have split time in net for Southeastern and combined for eight shutouts.
UCA heads to Hammond coming off a 1-0 loss to Incarnate Word last Sunday. Sophomore Shelby Wilson, sophomore Allie Coleman, freshman Dayna Mounie share the team lead with four goals. Senior Cassie Lange leads the team with four assists. Freshman Anna Hughes has handled the majority of work in goal, entering Friday's contest with a 1.59 goals against average.
Following Friday's match, Southeastern will head back on the road. Next Friday, SLU will be at Stephen F. Austin for a 7 p.m. match in Nacogdoches, Texas.
