BATON ROUGE – The LSU Soccer team look to bounce back straightaway from a 3-1 defeat at Missouri in its Southeastern Conference opener on Friday night with a trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Sunday afternoon as the Tigers will face Marquette in their non-conference finale that is scheduled to kick off at 1 p.m. CT at Valley Fields.
Fans can watch the Tigers in action as Marquette will provide free live streaming video of Sunday’s match beginning at 12:50 p.m. CT through its MUTube service.
Fans who are unable to watch the match are invited to follow the action through social media as they can receive live updates from the ground by following @LSUSoccer on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lsusoccer and by liking LSU Soccer’s official Facebook page at http://facebook.com/lsusoccer. They are also invited to join in the team’s live in-game chat on Facebook during each match this season.
The Tigers (4-4-1, 0-1 SEC) enter Sunday’s contest looking to snap a two-game losing skid as they face the Golden Eagles (3-5-1) in the inaugural meeting between the two clubs on the soccer pitch.
The Golden Eagles snapped a two-game losing skid of their own on Friday night as they opened a four-game homestand with a 1-0 victory over No. 16-ranked Kansas as the Jayhawks entered the match unbeaten with a perfect 8-0 mark for the 2014 season. The defending Big East Conference champions have struggled to a 3-5-1 mark through nine matches this season.
Marquette captured the Big East Conference championship and claimed a No. 2 national seed in the NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Tournament a year ago on the strength of an 18-4 overall record and its impeccable 9-0 mark in conference play during the 2013 campaign. The Golden Eagles were upset by Western Michigan in the first round of the NCAA Tournament a season ago.
Leading the Golden Eagle attack is junior midfielder Jacie Jermier as the local product tops the team’s scoring charts with three goals on the campaign, including the game-winning goal in Marquette’s 1-0 shutout of the 16th-ranked Kansas Jayhawks on Friday night on a free kick in the seventh minute of play. Sophomore striker Darian Powell follows Jermier with two goals to her credit as the team’s second-leading scorer in 2014.
LSU’s rookie striker Jorian Baucom netted her team-leading fifth goal of the season with an equalizer in the 54th minute on Friday night that leveled the score at 1-1 at Missouri. The Tigers fell behind by a 2-1 score once again on the hour mark before conceding a late goal with just 10 seconds to play to fall to Missouri by a score of 3-1 in their SEC opener.
All-SEC striker Summer Clarke follows Baucom with four goals as LSU’s second-leading scorer as she looks to find the scoresheet again for the first time since a 4-3 victory at BYU in Provo, Utah, on Sept. 11.
After wrapping up their non-conference season at Marquette on Sunday afternoon, the Tigers will return home next weekend for their SEC home opener as they welcome the No. 11-ranked Texas A&M Aggies on the night of Friday, Sept. 26, with kickoff set for 7 p.m. CT at the LSU Soccer Stadium. LSU’s match against Texas A&M will be featured on the SEC Network+ online platform.