PINEVILLE, La. – The Louisiana College women's soccer team finished the task that many thought impossible when the season started, rolling through an under-manned Texas College Steers side 25-0 Saturday night at Wildcat Field to finish the 2021 season undefeated in Red River Athletic Conference play and clinch the program's first conference regular season championship.
 
With the Steers starting the match with just nine players on the pitch, the match was hardly competitive from the start as the Wildcats immediately began to assault the TC goal. The breakthrough goal came in the 11^th minute as Martina Terra Garcia sent the ball back to Laura Pérez Velasco, who stepped into a shot and scored for a 1-0 lead, and the goals just poured in from there.
 
As the result grew firmly into a Wildcat rout, the only question would be whether a Wildcat would end the regular season as the conference's leading scorer. Martina Terra Garcia started the night just one goal back of the conference leader, whose match had already finished. Terra would tie the conference lead in the 43^rd minute, and then take the lead on her own in the 49^th minute. Stephanie Doran tried to sneak into consideration with a four-goal night, but by the time the 90 minutes were up, Terra Garcia had scored five times, putting her over 20 goals for the season and making her the RRAC's Golden Boot.
 
On senior night, however, the night belonged to senior player Larisa Soliz. Soliz had been a Wildcat since 2018 and had seen two seasons where LC didn't score six goals in the entire year, yet on this night, she alone scored six goals to break the Wildcat single match record.
 
Another senior of note in this match was goalkeeper Madison McDowell. McDowell, who faced constant pressure as the main Wildcat goalkeeper in 2019, got the start and had an easy 90 minutes in net for the Wildcats as the run of play stayed almost exclusively in LC's offensive half. To honor the fact that McDowell unselfishly took off the goalkeeping gloves to play the field during the spring 2021 COVID-19 season due to attrition, when the Wildcats won a penalty kick in the 55^th minute, McDowell was asked to take the shot, though it would end up being saved.
 
At the end of the night, the only goal that mattered was getting the win and securing the first conference championship for a program that had not seen a winning season in its history, and with the 25-0 win, by far the most goals scored in a single match in LC history, that mission had been achieved and the Wildcats were crowned the champions.
 
"Tonight was a dream night for my team," said Louisiana College head women's soccer coach Carla Tejas. "At the beginning of the season, we set a goal to be champions and tonight we accomplished it. My girls deserve it. They've worked so hard on and off the pitch to get to earn the right to call themselves champions. But we're not done yet. We want more and we will keep working to get better and be as ready as we can for our first postseason appearance."
 
The Wildcats (14-1-1, 10-0-1 RRAC) now head into the RRAC Championship Tournament, where an automatic berth into the NAIA National Championship Tournament awaits the winner, as the one-seed with a bye straight into the semifinal. LC's first match in the tournament will be on Thursday, November 11^th against an opponent to be determined by the results of this coming weekend's first round matches at a time to be announced later. The semifinal and final rounds of the RRAC Championship Tournament will be played at Judy Kelley Morgan Soccer Field on the campus of Texas A&M-Texarkana in Texarkana, Texas.