Women's Soccer to Face Piedmont College Sunday Evening at Home

Shreveport – The Centenary women's soccer team will face the Piedmont College Lady Lions on Sunday in a non-conference match set for 6 p.m. at Mayo Field.

Live stats and live video will be available for the match at the following links:

Video: https://collegetvticket.com/portal/centenary

Stats: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wsoc/2020-21/boxscores/20210207_anao.xml.

The Ladies (1-0) opened their season last Saturday with a thrilling 2-1 overtime victory over the LeTourneau University as freshman midfielder Cynthia Williams (Bossier City) scored the game-winning goal, the first of her career. Piedmont (0-1) dropped a 3-2 decision in double overtime at East Texas Baptist on Sunday in Marshall, Texas.

Centenary won for the ninth time in their last 10 home matches and recorded their second-consecutive 2-1 victory over the YellowJackets after also doing so in their home opener last season on Sept. 10, 2019. Centenary went 8-1 at Mayo Field last season as part of a record-setting campaign in which the Maroon and White finished 16-3 overall and 7-3 in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play and qualified for the SCAC Championship for the fourth season in a row, falling to Southwestern 1-0 in overtime in the semifinals in Georgetown, Texas.

Centenary set division III era (2011-present) team records for wins (16), goals (47), assists (39), points (132), and shots (327) last season. The Ladies were ranked for six consecutive weeks in the United Soccer Coaches West Regional Poll during the season and finished 10^th in the West Region in the final edition of the United Soccer Coaches Top 25 NCAA Division III Poll.

Sophomore Avery Gilbert (League City, Texas) scored Centenary's first goal of the season in the match last Saturday, in the 42^nd minute of the first half to give the Ladies a 1-0 lead which they took into halftime. The goal was Gilbert's second of her career after she notched one last season in a successful rookie campaign in which she played in 18 games with seven starts. Senior goalkeeper Maggie Pitcher (San Antonio, Texas) played the entire match for the Ladies and picked up her 10^th career win. She had three saves on Saturday to give her 125 in her career which is third-most in program history in the division III era.

Centenary will face Mississippi University for Women on the road on Feb. 17 in its final non-conference match before the Ladies open their conference schedule on Feb. 25 at St. Thomas. The Maroon and White then play the first five matches in the month of March at home, beginning with a non-conference match versus Belhaven University on March 2 before their first home conference match against Austin College on March 6. The Ladies then host Mississippi University for Women in a rematch on March 9 and square off with the University of Dallas (March 13) and Schreiner (March 20) in consecutive weeks at home in SCAC play.

The Ladies finish the month at Texas Lutheran on March 27 and play their final road contest of the regular season at Southwestern on April 3. Centenary finishes the regular season at home versus Trinity on April 10 for Senior Day. The SCAC Women's Soccer Championship will be hosted by Texas Lutheran University April 23 and 25 in Seguin, Texas.

A link to the Ladies' complete schedule can be found here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wsoc/2020-21/schedule

Live stats and live video are available for all home matches.

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