Golden Eagles head to South Alabama for first road match of the year
The first road affair of the 2025 campaign has arrived for the Tennessee Tech soccer team as the stage is set for a morning match in Mobile, Ala. on Sunday.
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
0 | 0 | 0 |
|
|
1 | 1 | 2 |
Team Stats
South Alabama
| Game Statistics | Tennessee Tech | South Alabama |
|---|---|---|
| Shots (on goal) | 2 (0) | 14 (5) |
| Saves | 3 | 0 |
| Fouls | 6 | 6 |
| Corner Kicks | 1 | 11 |
| Offsides | 3 | 2 |
By Dylan Vazzano, TTU Athletics Media Relations
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – The first road affair of the 2025 campaign has arrived for the Tennessee Tech soccer team as the stage is set for a morning match in Mobile, Ala. on Sunday. The Golden Eagles will square off with South Alabama in the second contest of the season, with kickoff from The Cage scheduled for 11 a.m. CT.
The match will be livestreamed on ESPN+. Click here to watch. Live stats will also be available. Click here to view.
A look at Tennessee Tech
The Golden Eagles (0-1-0) flock south on the heels of a season-opening 2-0 defeat to the defending Atlantic Sun champion, Lipscomb, in Tech's home opener Thursday evening. Scoreless at intermission, the Bisons found the back of the net twice behind scores in the 56th and 78th minutes to secure the victory.
Senior keeper Maggie Conrad collected four saves in the tilt, while Tech managed three shots in the match behind attempts by Tori Soutuyo, Anna Baker and Lucia Cuadra.
Conrad and Cuadra make up two-thirds of TTU's trio of returning All-OVC performers from last year. Katie Toney rounds out the group after a an All-OVC first-team season that saw the senior from McMinnville, Tenn. scored seven goals and add three assists for a 17-point campaign. Toney currently ranks sixth in career, points, eighth in career goals and seventh in career assists on the program's all-time list. Her next goal will put her in a tie for fifth.
Tech was chosen to win the Ohio Valley Conference in the league's recent predicted order of finish as voted on by the conference's head coaches and media relations personnel. The Golden Eagles picked up 14-of-20 first-place votes. The purple and gold won last year's OVC regular-season title to become the third-ever team to win three-straight regular-season crowns and just the second-ever to claim three-consecutive outright.
A look at South Alabama
The Jaguars (0-1-0) were also upended in their season opener with a 2-0 loss at the hands of LSU Thursday evening in Baton Rouge. Similar to Tech's tilt with Lipscomb, the match with the Tigers was scoreless at the half before LSU split the pipes twice in the second half with goals in the 74th and 87th minutes.
South Alabama managed six shots in the contest, with Aliya Gomes and Juliana Lopes leading the way thanks to two tries apiece.
The Jags head into the year having lost their top three individual point totals from a season ago behind the departures of Irene Campo, Monique Gray and April Lantaigne. Campo collected 30 points with 12 goals and six assists, while Gray tallied 18 points thanks to six goals and six assists and Lantaigne notched 10 points with two goals and six assists.
Bonnie Frost is the team's leading returning goal-scorer with three scores in 2024.
South Alabama will also head into the year with a new goalkeeper after the only two that appeared in a match last season are no longer with the team. In Thursday's match at LSU, Jaidin Kinch played in just over 61 minutes and allowed both goals to go along with three saves, while Sierra Giorgio made one save and did not allow a score in just under 29 minutes between the pipes.
The Jaguars were picked preseason No. 4 in the Sun Belt's Preseason Coaches Poll. The club is coming off a 10-6-3 campaign last year to go along with a 5-2-3 conference account.
Inside the series
Sunday's matchup will mark the fourth in the all-time set. The Jags lead the series 2-0-1, which includes a 3-2 win last year in Cookeville.
Photo | Ben Craven
