LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN (6-2-1) at TEXAS WOMAN'S (5-4-0)
Tuesday, Oct. 4 - 3:00 p.m.                                                  
TWU Soccer Field (Denton, Texas)
 
LCU Twitter: @LCUchaps, @LCUsoccer
TWU Twitter: @TWUpioneers, @TWUsoccer
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NSCAA South Central Regional Rankings
LCU: 7
TWU: N/A
 
LADY CHAPS FLIGHT DECK
•  The Lubbock Christian University Lady Chaparrals begin a four-game road trip Tuesday with a stop in Denton, Texas for their first ever meeting with Texas Woman's University.
•  LCU enters the game 6-2-1 overall and this game marks their second non-conference road game of the season. Their first was their 2-0 season opening win at Texas Permian Basin.
•  LCU, who went 1-6-1 on the road last season (four road goals), is 1-2-0 on the road this season. LCU is 17-21-1 all-time on the road under head coach Alex Denning. Overall all-time, LCU is 27-31-3 on the road.
 
STORY LINES
•   LCU is 1-0-0 this season in non-conference road games. They are winless in their last five non-conference road games (0-4-1) prior to their win at UTPB (Sept. 1 in Odessa, Texas). Overall this season, LCU is 2-0-0 in non-conference play.
•   The Lady Chaps have combined for 165 shots and 58 shots on goal in their last four games. Prior to the mark, LCU had a total of 67 shots and 31 shots on goal in their first five games combined.
•   Haley Knesek leads LCU's offense with 15 points off five goals and five assists. Her 15 points ranks second in the conference.
•   The Lady Chaps have 24 assists as a team this season, which ranks ninth in the nation in total assists. They average 2.7 per game, which ranks 19^th nationally. Knesek leads the Heartland Conference and ranks tied for 23^rd nationally with five assists.  
•   The Heartland Conference announced their weekly honors in women's soccer and Lubbock Christian University's Kate O'Gara was named the conference's Defensive Player of the Week for games played from Sept. 26 – Oct. 2. O'Gara, a sophomore defender from Stockport, England, helped LCU to a 2-0-0 week, with wins over Newman and Rogers State.  The defender had a two-goal game, which included the game-winning goal against Rogers State. She had nine shots during the week, including five on goal. Her five shots on goal were just as many as she allowed defensively for the combined week, as LCU out-shot their opponents 62-11 (26-5 on shots on goal) for the week in a pair of shutouts. The honor is the first for O'Gara and she is LCU's second Defensive Player of the Week recipient this season. Sarah Palmer claimed the honor in the opening week of the season. O'Gara is tied for second on the team this season with nine points off three goals and three assists.
•   LCU enters the game with shutout wins in their last three consecutive games played and they have six this season. The program single season record for shutouts is seven, which has been completed twice (most recently 2014). Freshman goalkeeper Sarah Palmer is a shutout away from matching Lauren Story's 2014 single season program record for shutouts by a goalkeeper. With three consecutive games resulting in a defensive shutout, LCU has now gone a season high 304:39 without allowing a goal. The LCU program record for a shutout sequence is 378:56 (2010) and the program's goalkeeper shutout sequence record is 351:51 by Kayla Wilkinson (Palmer is also currently with a shutout sequence of 304:39).
 
SCOUTING TWU
•   The Pioneers are coming off an 11-7-2 season in 2015, going 6-3-1 in non-conference play and 5-1-1 at home. TWU is coming off a 3-1 road loss at No.24 Midwestern State, which places them 5-4. They are 3-2-0 at home this season. Overall, they 1-4-0 in their last five games.
•   The Lone Star Conference preseason poll has TWU picked to finish third in the conference. They are currently sixth in the conference with a 1-3 mark.
•   TWU is led in goals by Chelsea Martin, who sits second in goals per game (0.56) and total goals (5) in the LSC.
•   Goalkeeper Samantha Jimenez ranks 49^th nationally and leads the Lone Star Conference in saves (53) and is 56^th in saves per game (5.89, which leads the conference). As a team, TWU leads the LSC and is 65^th nationally in saves per game (5.9).
•   TWU has been out-scored 5-3 in the first half of games this season, but has outscored opponents 8-3 in the second half.
 
SERIES HISTORY WITH TWU
•   The meeting is the first all-time meeting between the two squads.
•   It is the first ever meeting between LCU's only coaches in program history, as Alex Denning leads his Lady Chaps squad against a Pioneers team coached by Babak Abouzer, who served as the Lady Chaps head coach from 2010-2011 before Denning took over