UD Women's Soccer Hosts St. Thomas in SCAC Quarterfinals on Saturday
IRVING, Texas - The University of Dallas women's soccer team will host Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) opponent the University of St. Thomas this Saturday in the quarterfinal of the SCAC tournament. Earlier this season, these two teams met in Houston in which the Crusaders won 1-0. The last time these two teams met in Irving, the Crusaders defeated the Celts 2-1.
The Crusaders (4-2, 4-2 SCAC) are 1-2 and home this season. Back on February 27, opened the season with a 1-0 defeat of Schreiner University. On March 7, UD lost to Texas Lutheran University 3-2, and on March 20 Dallas to Trinity University 1-0 in overtime.
The Celts (2-5, 1-5 SCAC) this season are 0-3 on the road. The first loss came on March 12 against TLU with a score of 1-0. On March 29, St. Thomas lost to Trinity 10-0, and April 6, St. Thomas lost to Southwestern University.
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The quarterfinal game will start at 1:00 on Saturday with the live stream and pregame show starting at 12:30. The game stream will be available on College TV Ticket.
The link for the livestats and stream is available below:
Things to Note:
The Celts joined the SCAC in 2019, and were unable to participate in the SCAC tournament due to their probationary period. The last time St. Thomas was in a conference tournament was 2018 in the Red River Athletic Conference, in which they lost to LSU-Alexandria 1-0 in the first round.
Lexi Stinson is in her fourth season as the head coach of the UD women's soccer team. Stinton has led UD to a winning record now for two consecutive seasons and has gotten UD to three straight SCAC tournaments, winning the quarterfinal game in each of the previous two. In 2018, the Crusaders defeated Texas Lutheran in a penalty kick shootout 4-2 after tying the Bulldogs in regulation and overtime 2-2. In 2019, Dallas defeated the Bulldogs again, this time blanking Texas Lutheran 2-0.
Nick Morrison is in his second season as the head coach of the St. Thomas women's soccer team. In 2019, Morrison's team finished with a record of 5-8-2 and a conference record of 2-5-1, finishing in a tie with Texas Lutheran for six place.
UD's Alyssa Mencacci (League City, Texas), the 2019 SCAC New Comer of the Year, was held without a goal for the first four games of the season, but has scored in each of the last two. Mencacci's goals against Austin College and St. Thomas were the game-winning goals.
St. Thomas' Riley Keck and Desiree Lewis scored the first two goals of the year in the win over Austin College. Lewis' goal was the game-winner and was scored on a penalty kick.
UD's defensive line and goalkeeper Macey Henderson (San Antonio, Texas) have held opponents scoreless three times this season, but only once in Irving.
SCAC Implication:
The winner of the St. Thomas-UD quarterfinal will advance to the SCAC semifinals hosted at tournament site, Texas Lutheran University, the weekend of April 23-25. TLU will be the site of the semifinal and championship rounds.
To see the full SCAC bracket, click the link below.
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