Shreveport - The Centenary women's soccer team, off to its best start in program history, is receiving votes in the latest United Soccer Coaches Top 25 NCAA Division III Poll for the West Region.
The Ladies (8-0) sit atop the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference standings as conference play is set to begin this weekend. Centenary edged the University of Dallas, 2-1 on Sunday to improve to 4-0 at home this season and have outscored their last five opponents 14-4. The Ladies are the only undefeated team remaining in the conference.
The Ladies have a 23-8 advantage in goals scored this season against its competition and have allowed one goal or less in six of their eight matches.
Centenary senior midfielder Migui Boldrin (Ribeiaro, Brazil) scored four goals and had two assists in three games this past week for the Ladies and also added two assists. Boldrin, a transfer, has a team-best nine goals this season and three of her goals have been game winners.
Boldrin leads the SCAC in goals, goals per game, shots, shots per game, points, and points per game, and game-winning goals and has a pair of multi-goal games to her credit. She had one goal and one assist against Hendrix on Sept. 24, a goal and an assist versus Austin College on Sept. 27, and two goals versus U-Dallas on Sept. 29. Fellow senior Kyra Montes, a Shreveport native, has five goals this season in just four games played. Three of her goals have been game winners and she has added three asissts. Montes was recently presented with an incredible opportunity as she was invited to play for the Nicaragua Women's National Team in their next two games against Costa Rica and El Salvador coming up this weekend.
The Maroon and White will face the Johnson and Wales Wildcats (2-7) on Friday at 5 p.m. at Mayo Field in its SCAC opener. The two teams met back on Sept. 15 in Colorado with the Ladies winning 4-1.
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