Girls’s Soccer Open Homestand with New Mexico and Sacramento State

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The UC Santa Barbara Women’s Soccer group is again at Harder Stadium for a four-match house stand following 4 contests on the highway. The Gauchos went an ideal 4-0 on their highway journey whereas recording three shutouts and outscoring their opponents 8-1.
 
LAST TIME OUT
The Gauchos wrapped up their highway journey with a 3-0 win over North Dakota State on Sunday afternoon. Olivia Howard scored her second purpose in as many video games to present the Gauchos an early lead within the 4^th minute, whereas Evelyn Arsenault and Natalie Sheffey every scored their first targets within the Blue and Gold. Sitting at 5-1-1, that is the Gauchos’ greatest begin via seven video games since 2018 when Santa Barbara began the season 6-1-0.
 
SCOUTING THE LOBOS
New Mexico comes into Thursday’s matchup towards the Gauchos unbeaten of their first six matches of the season with a 4-0-2 file. The Lobos are at the moment using a three-game successful streak with wins over Oregon, Oregon State and New Mexico State. In that span, they’ve outscored their opponents 6-0.
 
Offensively, as a group, UNM has outscored its opponents 18-4, averaging three targets per contest. Leading the way in which for the Lobos is Alejandra Puerto and Nicole Anderson, who every have 4 targets on the season. New Mexico has 5 gamers who’ve recorded a number of targets on the season and 7 student-athletes in complete who’ve recorded not less than one purpose. UNM has put 50 % of their complete photographs on web.
 
Defensively, the Gauchos are more likely to see Jasmin Gonzalez-Rutt in web. The goalkeeper has began 5 video games, posting two shutouts and 11 saves. She has recorded three of the 4 Lobo wins and is permitting 0.69 targets towards via 391 minutes.
 
SCOUTING THE HORNETS
Sacramento State comes into the week with a 3-4 general file and can go to CSUN earlier than heading up the coast to play the Gauchos on Sunday. The Hornets are coming off an offensive outburst during which they scored 4 targets to defeat San Jose State 4-2 and finish a four-game shedding streak.
 
The Hornet offense is a real group effort with six totally different purpose scorers to date this season and only one recording multiple in Jaety Mandaquit. Manadaquit has taken simply 4 photographs, all of which have been on web with two discovering the again of it for targets.
 
Sac State has performed with two totally different goalkeepers in web, with Izzy Palmatier seeing many of the motion. Palmatier posts a 1.56 targets towards common with 32 saves and two clear sheets via 5 video games she has began. The different keeper the Gauchos might even see is Cynthia Waller. The freshman has seen motion in three contests, posting a 3.20 targets towards common and 9 saves.
 
FOLLOW ALONG
UC Santa Barbara and New Mexico will kick off at 7 p.m. on Thursday, September 11. The Gauchos’ contest towards the Hornets shall be an early kick at 11 a.m. on Sunday, September 14. For these unable to attend, each matches shall be streamed via ESPN+ with dwell stats out there via ucsbgauchos.com/WSOCLiveStats.