MIDDLE TENNESSEE vs. Rice
Wednesday, Nov. 3 | 10 a.m. CT | FAU Soccer Stadium
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BOCA RATON, Fla. – No. 3-seeded Middle Tennessee Soccer (9-7-1, 5-3 C-USA) opens up postseason play on Wednesday, Nov. 3 as the Blue Raiders take on the No. 2-seeded Rice Owls (10-5-2, 4-3-1 C-USA) in Boca Raton, Florida at the FAU Soccer Stadium for a 10 a.m. kickoff.
C-USA Accolades
Three Blue Raiders were honored with C-USA postseason accolades on Monday. For the third time over her five-year career, senior forward Peyton DePriest was named the C-USA Offensive Player of the Year. The honor marked the fifth-straight season DePriest was recognized with all-conference honors. Senior midfielder Sam DeBien was awarded C-USA All-Conference Second Team honors, marking the first C-USA postseason honor for DeBien. Freshman defender Sascha Nielsen was also awarded her first career postseason honor as she was named to the C-USA All-Freshman Team.
Scouting the Blue Raiders
The Blue Raiders enter Wednesday's contest with a 9-7-1 overall record and a 5-3 mark in C-USA play.
The Blue Raiders are led by C-USA leader Peyton DePriest, who has scored 11 goals and recorded four assists for a conference-leading 26 points during the 2021 campaign. Freshman Kirstine Lykke has netted a team second-best five goals this season, while adding a pair of assists for 12 points. Senior Sam DeBien, Junios Cambell Kivisto and Elizabeth Slavinsky, and sophomore Taylor Hamlett round out the Blue Raiders multi-goal scorers this season with two goals apiece. DePriest and senior Miya Lennon have both dished out a team-leading four assists this season.
Junior Hannah Suder led the Blue Raiders in goal, playing 16 games and 1,493 minutes between the posts this season. Suder ranks second in C-USA with 70 saves and has recorded three shutouts over Belmont, FAU, and UTEP during the 2021 campaign.
Scouting the Thundering Herd
Rice is in its third season under head coach Brian Lee. Lee has led the owls to a 34-14-6 record over his three seasons in Houston.
The Owls enter the postseason with a 10-5-2 overall record and a 4-3-1 mark in league play.
Rice is led offensively by 2021 C-USA Player of the Year Delaney Schultz, who ranks second in the league with nine goals, on a team-best 56 shots and 29 shots on goal. Schultz has also dished out a team-high seven assists for a league second-best 25 points this season. Caleigh Boeckx and Natalie Gorji are tied for a team second-best three goals, while Vyviene Spaulding and Izzy McBride each scored a pair of goals to round out the Owls' multi-goal scorers during the 2021 regular season. Caleigh Page and Serena Pham lead the team in assists with five apiece this season.
The Rice Owls are led in net by C-USA saves leader, Bella Killgore. Killgore has played all 17 games between the posts for the Owls this season, posting a 10-5-2 record. Killgore holds a 0.94 goals against average, while tallying 95 saves and recording three shutouts this season for the Owls.
Last Time Out
The Blue Raiders earned a 3-2 victory over the Marshall Thundering Herd on senior day.
Three minutes into the game, Peyton DePriest gave Blue Raider fans a true sendoff in a way that only No. 12 could, to close out the final regular season game of her five-year career at Middle Tennessee.
The Franklin, Tennessee, native stole a pass at the top of the Marshall box and beat Marshall goalkeeper Mira Pastoft on her left side to give the Blue Raiders an early 1-0 lead.
Marshall knotted it up at one-all on a Kat Gonzalez goal in the 18th minute, but the Blue Raiders took the lead thanks to a buzzer-beating goal from freshman Kristine Lykke.
The slender forward received a pass from Miya Lennon near the top of the box and dribbled it right in front of Pastoft and beat her over her right shoulder to give Middle Tennessee a 2-1 lead heading into the locker room. The goal was Lykke's fourth of the year and the assist was the fourth of the year for Lennon.
Lykke didn't waste much time getting back to work in the second half, as she took another beautiful pass; this time from Peyton DePriest and buried one in the back of the net in the 54th minute to give the native of Denmark her fifth goal of the season and first-career brace to extend the Blue Raider lead to two, 3-1.
The Thundering Herd brought the deficit back down to one in the 83rd minute, but it was too little too late as the Blue Raiders would close out the game and secure the 3-2 senior day victory.
Series History
Friday's matchup marks the ninth all-time meeting between Rice and the Blue Raiders, with the Owls holding a 4-2-2 all-time lead. The two programs last met on October 22, 2021, in which the Blue Raiders fell by a golden goal in double overtime, 2-1, in Houston. In their last five meetings, Rice holds a 3-1-1 record over the Blue Raiders, however the series remains even for contests played at a neutral site, 1-1. The last postseason meeting between the two squads was on Nov. 6, 2019, which saw the No. 3-seeded Owls earn a 4-2 win in Denton during the C-USA Tournament quarterfinals.
Up Next
With a win on Wednesday, the Blue Raiders would take on the winner of No. 1-seed Old Dominion vs. No. 4-seed UTSA on Friday, November 5 for a 4:30 p.m. kickoff.
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