BEAUMONT, Texas – The Lamar University women's soccer program will complete their home portion of the 2020 schedule with a two-game homestand beginning with the league leaders, Northwestern State, on Friday night with a 7 p.m. kickoff
Leading the Cardinals is redshirt senior
Esther Okoronkwo who leads the Cardinals with 14 total points on six goals and two assists. Sophomore
Nicole Panis leads the Big Red in goal with 50 stops on the year and a 0.84 goals allowed average while coming off a stellar week that got her named SLC Goalie of the Week.
LAST TIME OUT: Okoronkwo and junior
Christine Kitaru tallied the lone goals for the Cardinals in a 2-0 win over Nicholls in Thibodaux on Friday, March 12
th.
SERIES HISTORY: This will mark the 14
th meeting between the Cards and the Demons with LU holding a 8-4-2 series advantage. In the last meeting, Northwestern State tallied the winning goal in the overtime period to hand Lamar its lone conference loss in 2019.
SCOUTING THE DEMONS: The Demons (7-0-1, 5-0-1 SLC) are led by Kalee Williams who has tallied 10 points (four goals, two assists) on the year while Acelya Aydogmus leads NSU inbetween the pipes as she has only allowed two goals scored all season and has tallied 21 saves.
UP NEXT: The Cardinals will make the short turnaround as they will welcome Central Arkansas to the LU Soccer Complex on Sunday, March 21
st with kick off set for 1:00 p.m. CT.