Nov. 6, 2009
Final Stats
Natchitoches, LA - Back-to-back goals from Britney Curry proved to be all top-seeded Texas State would need to shift past No. 4 Sam Houston State Friday night, and with a 2-1 victory over the Bearkats, Texas State advances to the championship game of the 2009 Southland Conference Tournament.
Texas State will face No. 2 seed Southeastern Louisiana at 1p.m. at the Demon Soccer Complex. During the 2009 regular season, the Bobcats and Lady Lions played to a 0-0 double-overtime time.
With Curry's pair of goals, her single-season tally reaches 18 and breaks a Texas State record of 16 goals set by Danielle Holloway in 2004.
Texas State and Sam Houston fought through nearly an entire half before breaking open the void. At 38:23, Curry set up from 16-yards out and put a cross from Kendell Webber into the left corner of the net for a 1-0 Bobcat lead.
In less than a minute, Texas State was granted a corner kick and Jaimie Leake's header fell short of the net. The junior was there from four yards out to tap in the goal for a 2-0 lead into the half.
Sam Houston staged a comeback at 71:15 with a goal from Amanda Biega that slipped past Mawyer, but that would be all the senior keeper would allow.
"Sam Houston played a really good game," said head coach Kat Conner. "After coming off a really hard game against UTSA last night, I thought they might be a little bit dead. It was an excellent effort on their part. We didn't play our best ball tonight, but that is a credit to Sam Houston's tremendous effort."
Texas State held a 10-3 tally over SHSU in shots. Both Mawyer and Sam Houston State's keeper recorded three saves.
The 2009 Championship game will be streamed online through www.southland.org and television on SLC NOW. Viewing information can be found below.
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Currently, there are 10 affiliates in the three-state network, including KARZ-TV in Little Rock, Pine Bluff and Conway, Ark.; WBTR-TV in Baton Rouge, La.; WSTY-TV in Hammond, La.; KPXJ-TV in Shreveport, La. and Texarkana, Texas; KUIL-TV in Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas; MyTX 18 in Tyler, Longview, Nacogdoches and Lufkin; KTBU-TV in Houston, Baytown and Sugar Land, Texas; Suddenlink Communications in Lake Charles, La.; Time Warner Cable in Arlington, Austin, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Edinburg, Harlingen, Killeen, Plano, San Antonio, San Marcos, Temple and Waco, Texas; and Grande Communications on the Texas State University campus in San Marcos, Texas.
Fox College Sports will also broadcast the games on a tape-delayed basis each week. The Southland Conference Women's Soccer Championship will be re-aired three times beginning Sunday at 6 p.m., Central, on Fox College Sports Pacific. The other two times - next Wednesday at 2 p.m. and next Thursday at 6 p.m. - will both be on Fox College Sports Central.
