HAMMOND, La. – Southeastern Louisiana will look to build off its first Southland Conference win of the season when the Lady Lions visit south Texas for a pair of matches this weekend.

    Southeastern travels to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Friday for a 7:30 p.m. match at Jack Dugan Stadium. The Lady Lions then stop off at Houston Baptist for a 1 p.m. match on Sunday at Sorrels Field.

    Links to live stats for both matches, provided by the host schools, will be accessible on the Southeastern women's soccer schedule page at www.LionSports.net.  

    Southeastern (3-6-1, 1-2 SLC) split a pair of league home matches this past weekend, falling 1-0 to Abilene Christian on Friday before weathering a pair of weather delays for a 2-0 win over Incarnate Word on Sunday.

    In Sunday's match, sophomore forward Amber Marinero scored her second goal of the season and junior midfielder Vanessa Arzaluz her first. Freshman midfielder Gabbi Anderson recorded the first assist of her career while senior midfielder Maddie Kresevic got her first of the season. Freshman goalkeeper Michaela Hawthorn made seven saves for her third shutout of the year.

    Corpus Christi (4-4-1, 1-2 SLC) dropped a pair of road matches this past week, losing at Sam Houston State, 2-0, on Friday and by the same score at Stephen F. Austin on Sunday. Redshirt-junior Abbie Flax made seven saves over the two matches.

    Houston Baptist (3-4-1, 2-1 SLC) begins a three-match homestand on Friday against Nicholls. The Huskies went 2-0 on the road last weekend, taking a pair of 1-0 victories at Stephen F. Austin Friday and Sam Houston State Sunday. Senior forward Ellee Hall had the match winner in both contests while junior Alanis Guevara made nine saves in each.
 
GAME NOTES
Southeastern
   Hawthorn was an honorable mention selection for Southland Goalkeeper of the Week on Tuesday. In two matches last week, the freshman from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada allowed just one goal while making 13 saves.
 
   Southeastern has allowed two or fewer goals in each of its past four matches.
 
   Hawthorn leads the conference and ranks 11th in the country with 69 saves. She is also third in the league and 13^th in the nation with 6.90 saves per match. She is tied for third with three shutouts and ranks fourth in save percentage (.833) and seventh in goals against average (1.35).
 
   Marinero's two game-winning goals ties her for fifth in the Southland.
 
   The Lady Lions rank second in the Southland and 20^th nationally with 6.90 saves per match.
 
   Southeastern is second in the league in saves (70), tied for fourth in shutouts (3), fifth in goals against average (1.35), sixth in goals allowed (14), seventh in corners (40), eighth in shots (118), ninth in assists (8) and points (26) and tied for ninth in goals (9).
 
   Junior midfielder Maggie Ramsey leads Southeastern with three goals and six points. She has 20 goals in her career and needs two more to move into a tie with Karly Dagys (2009-12) for 10^th on the Lady Lions' career list.
 
   Ramsey's four shots against UIW moved her into seventh place on the Lady Lions' all-time list with 156. She needs two to tie Becca Weingartner (1998-2001) for sixth and five to tie Maiya Cooper (2009-12) for fifth. She is currently averaging 2.90 shots per match, fifth-best in the conference.
 
   The Lady Lions have spread out their assists with Kresevic, Anderson, junior defenders Christian Cutura and Sofia Olsson, freshman midfielders Larissa Galvez Estrada and Megan Gordon and freshman forward Jessi Cooper and freshman defender Tilly Hallas-Potts all recording one.
 
   Southeastern has won two straight against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and is 4-1 versus the Islanders. The Lady Lions took a 1-0 overtime win in 2016. TAMCC got its win over Southeastern, 2-1, in the last meeting in Corpus Christi in 2015. The Lady Lions are 1-1 on the road versus the Islanders.
 
   Southeastern will be looking for its first victory against Houston Baptist, having gone 0-6-1 against the Huskies with the tie coming at home in 2013 (1-1 in double overtime). HBU won both meetings in 2016, taking a 2-1 victory in Hammond before nipping the Lady Lions 2-1 in the first round on its way to the Southland Conference Tournament title. Southeastern is 0-2 at HBU.
 
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
   Craig Shaw is in his first season as head coach at Corpus Christi.
 
   The loss to Sam Houston snapped a four-match unbeaten streak for the Islanders, longest in school history.
 
   Corpus Christi is 1-0-1 at home in 2017 and has allowed just one goal in those three matches.
    
   The Islanders are second in the conference with 11 goals allowed and third with a 1.18 goals against average. Their three shutouts are tied for fourth.
 
   Corpus Christi is tied for ninth in goals (9), 10^th in both assists (6) and points (24) and 11^th in shots (94) and saves (38).
 
   Flax is tied for fifth in the league with two shutouts. She is also ninth in goals against average (1.41) and 10^th in saves (25).
 
   Freshman midfielder Katie Lawrence has two game-winning goals, tied for fifth in the conference.
 
   Lawrence leads the Islanders with two goals. Freshman midfielder Mariah Ramon and redshirt-junior Kaitlyn Joy each have two assists. Joy has taken a team-high 16 shots.
 
   Freshman defender Megan Dodd (defense) and Flax (goalkeeper) were named Southland players of the week for the fifth week of the season on Sept. 19.
                                                      
   The Southland Conference Tournament is scheduled to be played at Jack Dugan Stadium for the second straight season Nov. 1-5.
 
Houston Baptist
   Houston Baptist swept the Southland Conference weekly awards on Tuesday with Hall winning for offense, Redshirt-freshman Megan Rickert for defense and Guevara for goalkeeper.
 
   The Huskies rank third in the nation with a league-leading 9.00 saves per match. HBU also has a conference-best 72 saves and is tied for third with 12 goals allowed. The Huskies are tied for fourth with three shutouts and are seventh in goals against average at 1.41.
 
   Guevara is second in the conference and eighth nationally with 8.00 saves per match. She is third in the league in both saves (56) and save percentage (.848), tied for fifth in shutouts (2) and 10^th in goals against average (1.42). She has made 29 saves while allowing two goals in three league matches.
  
   Senior Katie Turner also has a shutout for the Huskies.
 
   Offensively, HBU is 11^th in goals (8), assists (5) and points (21) and 12^th in shots (76).
 
   Hall is tied for the Southland lead with five goals and three game-winning goals. She is the conference leader with 0.62 goals per match and is also tied for sixth with 10 points.    
 
   Junior forward Gabby Rodriguez has scored two goals while Rickert has a team-high two assists.
  
QUOTES
Southeastern head coach Chris McBride:
On Corpus Christi…
   "They have a new coaching staff. Coach Shaw is a really good coach and he has them playing pretty well right now. It's a different team than we saw last year. They are playing a really good style of soccer right now so it will be a tough game, especially at their place. We'll go in and hopefully execute a game plan to get a good result."
 
On Houston Baptist…
   "They won the conference tournament last year. They are very good team and they played extremely well last weekend. It's going to be two really tough road trips for us and hopefully we can get a good performance."
  
On the matchups between three of the top defensive teams in the conference…
   "I think it's going to be a good defensive game again. Both Corpus Christi and Houston Baptist are comfortable giving up some shots from distance. They've done a good job of limiting their opposition's goal-scoring opportunities and making them score from different angles and different distances."
 
UP NEXT
    Southeastern returns home to play Lamar Friday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. in Strawberry Stadium. The match will be Student Night with the first 100 students in attendance receiving an authentic soccer scarf.