#4 Seed Ladies Soccer Set to Face #5 Texas Lutheran in SCAC Championship Quarterfinals

Shreveport – The No. 4 seed Centenary women's soccer team will face the No. 5 seed Texas Lutheran Bulldogs in the quarterfinals of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship on Saturday in match set for 3 p.m. at Mayo Field.

Live stats and live video are available for the match at the links below:

Stats: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wsoc/2020-21/boxscores/20210417_8ym2.xml

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

The Ladies (8-3, 4-3 SCAC) and Bulldogs (3-5-1, 3-3-1 SCAC) are meeting for the second time this season after the Ladies blanked the Bulldogs, 2-0 on March 27 on the road to set a division III era (2011-present) single-season record for shutouts in a season with seven. The Ladies posted shutouts in seven of their 11 games this season.

The winner of the Centenary-TLU match will face the (1) Trinity vs. (8) Schreiner winner in the semifinals on Friday, April 23 at 11 a.m. in Seguin, Texas as Texas Lutheran will host the semifinal matches and the championship match.

Centenary is coming off of a heartbreaking 1-0 loss last Saturday on Senior Day in double-overtime to Trinity as the visiting Tigers scored with just seven seconds remaining in the second OT period.

The Ladies, despite the bitter defeat, finished the regular season allowing just four goals and outscoring its opponents, 20-4. The Ladies are 24-6 in their last 30 matches dating to the beginning of last season and are an impressive 10-5 in their last 15 conference matches. Centenary finished the regular season 5-2 at home this season and is 13-3 at Mayo Field over the last two seasons.

Ladies' senior goalkeeper Maggie Pitcher (San Antonio, Texas) played another great game on Saturday and was especially spectacular in the first half. Pitcher, one of the top goalkeepers in the conference and country this season and one of the most decorated players in the division III era in program history, earned nine saves on Saturday with three coming in the first half. Pitcher lead the SCAC in shutouts and goals against average, and save percentage, and ranks second in total saves.

Centenary enters Saturday's match ranked second in the league in assists, goals, points, and shots. Junior MF Gabby McDonald (Pasadena, Texas) is having a spectacular season for the Ladies as she ranks fourth in the conference and leads the team with four goals and is tied for third in points (10), second in shots (31), and tied for fourth in assists with two.

Sophomore forward Sydney Bascomb (Mesquite, Texas) is tied for fifth in the league in goals with three, tied for fourth with two assists, tied for fifth in points with eight and has two game-winning goals, which is tied for second in the conference. Fellow sophomore Avery Gilbert (League City, Texas) is tied for fourth in assists (2), and tied for fifth in points goals (3) and points (8).

Senior MF Pamela Fonseca (Houston, Texas) and sophomore MF Celeste Muniz (Denton, Texas) are tied for eighth in the conference in goals with two each and Fonseca is also tied for second in game-winning goals as both of her scores are GW's for the Ladies this season. Eleven different players have scored goals for the Ladies this season, five players have scored at least two or more goals, and five freshmen have found the net.

The Ladies are in the SCAC Championship for the fifth-consecutive year. Last season, the Ladies defeated Schreiner, 1-0, and then fell the next day to host Southwestern 1-0 in overtime in the semifinals in Georgetown, Texas.

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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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