LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN (9-5-2, 5-2-2) at
EASTERN NEW MEXICO (11-5-1, 3-5-1)
Saturday, November 9 – 12 P.M. MT (1 P.M. CT)
Al Whitehead Field at Greyhound Stadium – Portales, New Mexico
 
CHAPARRAL HEADERS

• Eleven different Lubbock Christian players have scored goals this year, including most recently Jasper Reese on Thursday. Niklas Neumann and Agustine Contreras Orsi are the only two Chap players with multiple shots on goal and no goals this year
• LCU forward Fernando Flores is currently first in the Lone Star Conference in game-winning goals and is third overall with 22 points
• Lubbock Christian has now scored 33 total goals this season (2.06 per game), which matches their season total from 2018. LCU last scored more than 33 goals in a season in 2014, when they had 35 on 235 shot attempts
• The last road win for the Chaps was a 3-2 double overtime victory at Dallas Baptist on October 12
• LCU is 3-4-2 iin road games this season and 8-22-7 in road games since the start of the 2016 season

 
WHAT TO WATCH FOR

• The Chaps have scored at least one goal in 11 straight games. The last time LCU was shut out was on September 20 at Concordia
• Tariq Bakkali has scored in two of Lubbock Christian's last three contests. He is second on the team with six goals and 14 points in 915 minutes on the field
• With 1525 goalie minutes played this season, Braxton Thorne ranks No. 25 nationally and leads the Lone Star Conference. Thorne averages 3.31 saves per game and is tied for second in the conference with two shutouts
• Although they scored three first-half goals in Thursday night's win over West Texas A&M, the Chaps have been far better offensively in the second half of games. Nineteen of LCU's 33 goals this season have come in the final 45 minutes of games, and they have scored another three in overtime
• Defender Jonathan Woods is the only Lubbock Christian player to have been on the field for every minute of every game so far this year, playing 1,527 minutes overall
• Lubbock Christian has already matched a program record with six overtime games this season. They also played past regulation six times in 2018
• Flores's 22 total points are the fourth most in a single season ever by a Chap player. He needs four more to surpass Lennard Hansen's 25 in 2014 for the program's third-best mark

 
SCOUTING THE GREYHOUNDS

• Eastern New Mexico currently sits just outside of the playoff picture in seventh place with only seven conference points
• The Greyhounds are averaging 1.88 goals per game this year while allowing 1.41 from their opponents
• ENMU has won back-to-back games, including a 2-1 win over No. 13 Midwestern State last week in Portales
• Joe Conway leads the team with seven goals. He also has three assists for a team-leading 17 points
• The Greyhounds have already set a program record this season with 11 wins

 
THE SERIES WITH ENMU
Lubbock Christian's fifth game ever in program history came against Eastern New Mexico and was a 1-0 win for the Chaps. Since then, the two teams have faced off another 13 times, with the Greyhounds holding a 6-4 advantage with four ties. Neither team has ever won more than two games in a row in the series.