LUBBOCK, Texas - The Lady Chaps host their final home match of the regular season, hosting Eastern New Mexico on Tuesday, Oct. 25 at the LCU Soccer & Track Facility.

Eastern New Mexico (4-10-1, 2-7-1 LSC) at Lubbock Christian (8-2-6, 5-2-3 LSC) 
Wednesday, Oct. 25 - 7 PM
Lubbock, Texas - LCU Soccer & Track Facility

LADY CHAP HEADERS
• LCU rolled to a 5-1 win on Saturday at St. Edward's, the Lady Chaps first ever win in Austin. Lubbock Christian scored three goals in the final 14 minutes of the match to pull away for the victory. Lexi De La Cruz tallied two goals and one assist, while Graycen Rasmussen scored a goal and also had an assist. Celia Duarte and Avery Jennings also scored goals in the victory.

• Duarte is just the seventh Lady Chap in school history to record 40 points in a career, as Duarte sits seventh overall with 41 points in her career. She now sits alone for seventh most goals scored all time with 15, breaking a tie with teammate Makenna Pate. Her three shots against St. Edward's moves her ahead of Ashley Ledford for ninth most shots in a career with 115. 

- De La Cruz is the first Lady Chap to score double digit goals in a season since Haley Knesek scored 12 goals and Allison Scott scored 11 in the 2019 season. De La Cruz has scored 10 goals so far this season.

- Kenley Blevins and Abby Kone have both played all 90 minutes in every single match this season. Blevins has not left the pitch since 18th minute against St. Mary's on Nov. 6, 2021.

DISHING IT OUT
The Lady Chaps have been sharing the ball at will this season, with twelve players recording at least one assist. Maddie Hoel leads the team with five assists this season. LCU is giving the ball out at will, averaging 1.88 assists per match, the 21st most in D-II and 1st in the LSC. The Lady Chaps' 30 assists are 1st in the LSC and 19th in Division-II

RA RA RASMUSSEN
Graycen Rasmussen has been one of the standout freshmen for the Lady Chaps this season, scoring six goals and tallying three assists so far ths year. Rasmussen picked up five points in two matches earlier this season, tallying an assist and a goal against Oklahoma Christian. Her penalty kick goal against Texas A&M International was enough for the Lady Chaps to knock off the Dust Devils 1-0. Rasmussen ranks third in the LSC in shots with 50. Rasmussen recorded a career-high eight shot attempts against Texas Woman's on Oct. 15.

KONE YOU DIG IT
After recording two shutouts in her first two matches, Abby Kone was named Goalkeeper of the Week by the Lone Star Conference on Monday, Aug. 29. It was the first time a Lady Chap has been named Lone Star Conference Goalkeeper of the Week since Oct. 4, 2021, when Hannah Wise earned the honor. It is also the first time an LCU has earned a weekly conference honor after their first week of the season since Sarah Palmer won the Heartland Conference Defensive Player of the Week award as a freshman goalkeeper for week one of the 2015 season. Kone became the first LCU keeper to record 10 saves in a match since 2018, with 13 saves against Colorado Mesa, the second most in a match in program history.  Kone now sits fourth all time in shutouts already in her career with six. Her 60 saves already rank as the sixth most in program history and the third most in one season for any Lady Chap

WELCOME BACK LEXI
Lexi De La Cruz is a sophomore transfer from Howard Payne University. De La Cruz was the American Southwest Conference Freshman of the Year in 2021, leading the conference in points (34), assists (8) and goals (8). The Lubbock native was also named Third-Team All-Region by the United Soccer Coaches Association. De La Cruz did not waste long in her return to Lubbock, scoring a pair of goals and recording an assist in LCU's 3-0 shutout of Western Colorado in their first match of the season.  Twice this season De La Cruz has tallied five points in a match, scoring a hat trick against New Mexico Highlands on Sept. 3, and scoring two goals and picking up an assist on Oct. 22 against St. Edward's. She currently ranks second in the Lone Star Conference in points (23) second in goals (10), second in shots on goal (28) and sixth in total shots (44).

SHUT IT DOWN
Since the program's inception in 2010, the Lady Chaps have recorded at least four shutouts in every single season. LCU picked up their sixth shutout of the season in a 1-0 win over Midwestern State, moving to 4-0-2 in shutouts this year. The Lady Chaps hold a 75-0-6 record in shutouts all-time

PRESEASON PICKINGS
The Lubbock Christian University women's soccer team was picked to finish eighth in the 2022 Lone Star Conference preseason poll. Celia Duarte, Madison Mayben and Megan Mirabal were named players to watch by the conference for the 2022 season.
- Duarte played in 11 matches last season for the Lady Chaps, scoring a pair of goals and tallying one assist. Her goal against Texas A&M International on Sept. 25 was the game winner over the Dust Devils and gave LCU their first conference win of the season.
 - Mayben played in and started 15 matches for the Lady Chaps last season. Mayben was a key part of the Lubbock Christian defense that recorded six
shutouts, including four in their first eight matches on the way to a 6-0-2 start.
 - Mirabal started five games in net for LCU last season, finishing the year with a 3-1-1 record. Mirabal earned the win for the Lady Chaps in her first three matches, allowing two goals and recording 11 total saves. She earned her lone shutout of the season against Adams State on Sept. 9, tallying six saves on the way to the 3-0 victory.

THIS IS HOME
In their second year at the new LCU soccer and track & field complex, the Lady Chaps went 4-4-1 at home, opening the season with a 4-1 thrashing of New Mexico Highlands. LCU is now 60-27-17 in
home games all-time, and 10-5-6 all-time at the LCU soccer and track & field complex. Lubbock Christian has never had a losing record at home under head coach Alex Denning. The home schedule for 2022 features nine home games in total. LCU has just three wins at home this season, but has not lost a home match this year, with five draws

IT'S HOW YOU FINISH
Like last season, the Lady Chaps were undefeated after their first eight matches at 4-0-4. Also like last season, the Lady Chaps eighth match was a positive result against a ranked DBU, beating the
no. 12 Patriots 1-0 in 2021, and tying the no. 1 Pats 1-1 this season. Last season, LCU was 6-0-2 after eight matches, but finished the season just 2-7 and missed the Lone Star Conference Tournament. The 6-0-5 start was the best for the Lady Chaps since starting the 2012 season 12-0. LCU fizzled out at the end of that season, going 0-5-2 in their final seven matches

SCOUTING THE GREYHOUNDS
- Eastern New Mexico enters the match at 4-10-1 and 2-7-1 in the Lone Star Conference. The Greyhounds have lost three straight matches, the last two being a 1-0 loss to no. 1 DBU and a 4-1 loss to no. 15 West Texas A&M.
- The Greyhounds have been shut out 10 times this season but have also recorded five shut outs of their opponents. The Greyhound's six total goals scored this season is tied with Texas Woman's for the worst in the conference and ranks 240th in all of Division-II.
- Samantha Jefferies ranks first in the conference and 23rd in the country with 90 saves this season. Her .827 save percentage is third in the LSC. Her six saves per game ranks 37th in Division-II.
 - Eric Belcher began as the new head women's soccer coach at Eastern New Mexico University July 2022. He is going into his 12th year as a head coach at the collegiate level. The Edgewood, Maryland native joins the Greyhounds after leading Ohio Valley University (NAIA) in Vienna, West Virginia to a 2021 River States Conference title and an appearance in the NAIA national tournament. His squad at OVU went 13-2-1 and clinched the RSC tournament with wins over Point Park and Rio Grande.

THE SERIES WITH THE GREYHOUNDS
LCU leads the all-time series against Eastern New Mexico 3-1-1 with back-to-back shutout victories. The lone draw came in a 2-2 decision on Nov. 5, 2015. The Hounds have not scored a goal against the Lady Chaps in 218:32 of game action and have not scored a goal on LCU in 2,546 days.

A WIN WOULD
- Be the third straight win of the season
- Be the third straight win over ENMU
- Give the Lady Chaps an undefeated record at home in the regular season for the first time since 2015 (7-0-2 in 2015, 3-0-5 this season)

UP NEXT
The Lady Chaps close out the regular season on Saturday, Oct. 29 in San Antonio against St. Mary's. Kickoff is set for 1 PM against the Rattlers.