TYLER, Texas — Senior goalkeeper
Haley Faucette was kept extremely busy in the second half, facing eight shots on goal and six corner kicks, but she helped St. Mary's University Women's Soccer to a 1-1 draw against third-place UT Tyler on Wednesday to earn a point in the Lone Star Conference standings.
Faucette, a senior from Burlington, S.C., made eight saves on the nine shots on goal by the Patriots (9-2-3, 6-2-3), and saw 14 shots total. The goal was scored in the 58th minute on a counter that went from the far side of the field all the way across into the top corner of the net over the outstretched arms of Faucette. The Rattlers are now 5-5-3 overall and 4-4-2 in league action.
Three minutes later, junior
Elena Kossler (Ötztal-Bahnhof, Austria) beat the UTT keeper, Emily Clark, and a defender to the ball in the box that
Shelby Paniagua (Cibolo, Texas) fed to her, and Kossler had an open net to score the equalizer. It is Kossler's eighth goal of the year and her seventh in the last six matches. All three of her shots on the night were on frame.
Paniagua took six of the team's 11 shots and had two shots on goal in playing all 90 minutes. Three of her shots came in the final two minutes, with one that wobbled out of the keeper's gloves for a moment, but stayed out of the net. She was joined on the pitch the entire game by senior
Valerie Hover (McKinney, Texas), freshman
Marily Garza Contreras (Duncanville, Texas), senior
Abigail Wilson (Tomball, Texas) and Faucette.
The Rattlers return home to host Eastern New Mexico. Stay tuned to rattlerathletics.com, as there is a strong chance the game will be moved off Saturday due to forecasted storms in San Antonio. The Greyhounds dropped a 1-0 decision in Portales to Angelo State on Wednesday evening.
