SAN ANTONIO, Texas – The Louisiana Christian University women's soccer program had a -10 corner kick differential (10-0) and were out-shot by four (14-10), but persevered and gutted out its fourth win in-a-row, defeating OLLU by a score of 2-1, its first triumph without a corner since 2012.
 
The Basics: 
 

• Score
  • Louisiana Christian – 2
  • Our Lady of the Lake – 1

 

• Records
  • Louisiana Christian (10-4-2, 9-1-1 Red River)
  • Our Lady of the Lake (7-5-2, 6-4-1 Red River)

 

• Location
  • San Antonio, Texas – Our Lady of the Lake Soccer Field

  

• Series History
  • Wildcats Lead 3-2-1 (58.3%)

 

• Winning Streak
  • Wildcats (W1) | Saints' Last Win: November 5, 2022 (RRAC Quarterfinals, 2-0)

 
Wildcats Top Performers: 
 

• Jaycee Woods nabbed a season-high eight saves in nine tries (88.9%) to lead the Wildcats to their tenth victory of the season.

 

• Maria Alonso put together a personal-record four shots-on-goal, a perfect SOG%, and net herself the game-winner in the 68th minute for her fifth score of 2024.

 

• The visitors from "The Hill" made a strong impression in the opening minutes of the match as Valeria Barriga Casallas struck first blood merely 72 seconds after the whistle blew to give the Orange and Blue an early edge.

 

• Daniela Gomez took a pair of shots with one landing on-target and Emma Monnet sent her one attempt between the pipes while the duo of Zoi Arkirvaki / Jazmine Jamison each got a shot away, but went high or wide.

 
Record Book Watch:
 
Career 
 

• Barriga Casallas sits in a three-way stalemate for seventh on the career points leaderboard after Saturday, scoring her 29th and 30th points as a Cat on top of moving into sixth for goals at a dozen.

 

• Alonso's 11th goal of her tenure deadlocks her with Jayme Harmon (2013-15) at eighth place, her 71 shots put her slightly ahead of Casallas for the tenth spot on the all-time shots tally, the 36 shots-on-goal are ninth-best, and that third career game-winning goal slides her into elite company with a handful of players tied for third.

 

• Woods bumped Aimee Ashe (1998, 2000) down to number ten on the saves leaderboard, jumping up to ninth overall at 117 in addition to ballooning her save percentage up to second-highest of all-time (75.5%).

 
Team 
 

• On the collective, Head Coach Harrison Houle's women is now second in combined wins / ties (11), has the fourth/sixth-longest winning/unbeaten streak ever (4) and third-most SOGs (135) the school has seen in 28 years.

 
Season 
 

• Alonso's second go-ahead score of the season just the 12th student-athlete to have multiple in one campaign.

 
Next:
  

• The Cats have secured home-field advantage in the Red River Athletic Quarterfinals and still have an outside shot at the regular season championship heading into the final two matches, beginning with North American at 1 p.m. on Thursday.

 

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