Men's Soccer Continues Historic Start with Win over UT-Dallas
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Texas Lutheran (5-0-0, 0-0-0) | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Texas-Dallas (0-3-2, 0-0-0) | 1 | 0 | 1 |
RICHARDSON, Texas -- With a 2-1 win over UT-Dallas (0-3-2) on Friday, the Texas Lutheran men's soccer team (5-0), who began receiving votes in the United Soccer Coaches Top 25 Poll this week, is off to the best start since 2001. The 2001 squad featured head coach Eddie Salazar as a player in his senior season.
Texas Lutheran opened the scoring in the 11th minute as Preston Huff (Cypress/Cy-Fair) netted his second goal of the season via assists from Erick Lopez (Humble/Humble) and Gavin Edwards (Missouri City/Ridge Point).
UT-Dallas scored in the 21st minute to tie the game 1-1 before captain Jack Manke (Houston/Stratford) netted the eventual game winner in the 37th minute, putting the Bulldogs up 2-1.
Goalkeeper Noel Pena (Houston/Cy-Falls), who was named the SCAC Defensive Player of the Week on Monday, came up with four saves including three major ones in the second half.
Texas Lutheran will face future SCAC foe, University of the Ozarks, in a neutral site matchup on Sunday in Richardson on the campus of UT-Dallas at 3 PM. All streaming and live stats links will be available on tlubulldogs.com.
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