AUSTIN, Texas – Just 36 nights after winning a match in the final 17 seconds to begin the 2023 season, Texas was on the other end of the heartbreak as Texas Tech’s last-second header rolled across the goal line with one second left during Thursday night’s 2-1 contest to give the Red Raiders the win.
The first-half action was highlighted by goals from Texas’ Trinity Byars and Texas Tech’s Ashleigh Williams — two of the Big 12 Conference’s top goal scorers so far this season — as they scored their 11th and 10th goal, respectively, for their programs. The duo’s goals guided the way for a 1-1 score after the match’s first 45 minutes.
The two programs totaled 17 of their combined 29 shots during the second half — Texas (7) and Texas Tech (10) — but each team’s keeper only had to made one save during the second 45-minute stanza.
The match was decided in the last four seconds as Texas Tech’s Hannah Anderson headed a ball off a Macy Blackburn free kick that dribbled past the goal line in the closing seconds.
FROM HEAD COACH ANGELA KELLY
“I knew it was going to be a battle; it always is against Texas Tech. It wasn’t a great way to end a match at home.”
MATCH NOTES
- With her first-half goal Thursday night, junior forward Trinity Byars was credited with her 40th career goal, becoming just the third Longhorn women’s soccer student-athlete to achieve the feat.
- Byars, who now has 11 goals on the season, is just seven goals away from passing Kelly McDonald (2001-04) for the program’s career goal record.
- After replacing Mia Justus between the pipes 29 minutes into the match, junior Megan Hogate went on to play a career-high 61:03 of game action.
- Prior to Thursday night’s match, Hogate’s longest stint in goal was just 14 minutes against Texas Southern on Sept. 15, 2022.
- On Trinity Byars’ goal, Texas freshman forward Avery Clark was credited with an assist, marking the second consecutive match with an assist for the Brentwood, Tenn., native.
- Clark now holds the program’s longest active streak of consecutive matches with at least one assist.
- Texas’ streak of consecutive minutes played without allowing a goal was also snapped Thursday night, just shy of 600 minutes after the Red Raiders scored at the 11:39 mark of the first half and ending the Longhorns’ streak at 597:38.
- Thursday night’s result was the first for Texas on the wrong end of the final score in a Big 12 Conference regular season match since Nov. 6, 2020, when the Longhorns fell to Texas Tech, 1-0, in Lubbock, a span of 1,050 days.
- It was also Texas’ first loss in a home regular season conference match since Sept. 11, 2020, when Kansas knocked off the Longhorns, 1-0, a span of 1,106 days without a home regular season conference loss.
UP NEXT
- Texas (7-2-1, 1-1-0) will return to the pitch at Mike A. Myers Stadium on Monday, Sept. 25, when the Longhorns square off against No. 6 BYU (8-1-1, 1-0-1) at 7 p.m.
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