The Lady Buffs hit the road this weekend for the fourth time this season as they traveled down to San Angelo and San Antonio for games on Sept. 30 and Oct. 2 to add to their winning season record.
“[Our goal is to] make the conference tournament and go on to Nationals,” forward Becky McMullen said.
The women took on Angelo State on Sept. 30 in a Lone Star Conference match. The first goal of the match came from ASU off of a penalty kick at the 27:52 mark to start off the game. But WT didn’t let them get away, with Leslie Briggs scoring with five minutes left in the first half, tallying her seventh goal of the season.No more goals were seen in the rest of the game, including overtime, giving WT their first tie of the season.
The Lady Buffs had their second LSC match of the season on Oct. 2, taking on Incarnate Word in San Antonio. However, this time they would be down some players due to injuries.
“We didn’t have three of our starters for this game today so I think we did very well,” Briggs said.
Just like Friday, the Lady Buffs let the other team score first and went into the intermission with a score of 1-0 in favor of Incarnate Word with six shots on the board for WT.
The second half was WT’s as Melanie Shannon tied the game at the 69:21 mark, forcing the game into WT’s second overtime of the weekend. Becky McMullen ended the game with 10 minutes left in OT as she scored her fourth goal of the season. Yvette Bedoy got the win in net for the game, collecting six saves on the day.
“We came together as a team and worked hard to accomplish our goal to get a win,” Bedoy said.
The win took the Lady Buffs’ season record to 6-4-1 and their LSC record to 3-3-1. The women travel to Wichita Falls on Oct. 7 to take on Midwestern State at 6 p.m.