Another disappointing loss for Hedlund

Dannymacfan · August 13

Ladies come up short again vs. Colorado.

BOULDER, Colorado — The UNT women's soccer team outshot Colorado 16-12 over its 90-minute road exhibition but in the end fell short on Saturday, 4-3.

In what was the Mean Green's final preseason match before the regular season begins on Aug. 15 versus Oklahoma, North Texas got goals from sophomore Alexis Miller, freshman Claire Niedermeier and senior Rachel Roebuck. All three goals were equalizers.

UNT on Saturday faced a Buffaloes squad coming off a 2023 NCAA Tournament appearance and had victories last year over two top 25 opponents. Last season Colorado only gave up three goals twice all year and it was against No. 3 Stanford and No. 5 UCLA — both times at home.

After falling behind in the 18th minute on Saturday, Miller leveled the score in 31st minute. The sophomore forward also scored on Thursday in North Texas' 2-2 draw at reigning Mountain West runner-up Colorado State.

The Buffaloes responded quickly and took a 2-1 lead into the half. However, the lead didn't last long as Niedermeier beat the CU keeper bottom left to tie the match in the 48th minute. Niedermeier was one of four Mean Green freshmen to start Saturday.

LINK: https://meangreensports.com/news/2024/8/10/womens-soccer-soccers-offensive-assault-falls-short-in-final-exhibition-at-colorado

Edited August 13 by Dannymacfan

blurbeard · August 13

Buffs picked 4th of 16! Our MG ladies played them toe to toe and actually out shot them!

2024 Big 12 Soccer Preseason Poll

	School (First Place Votes)	Points
1.	BYU (9)	206
2.	Texas Tech (6)	205
3.	TCU (1)	197
4.	Colorado	174
5.	Arizona State	157
6.	UCF	151
7.	West Virginia	149
8.	Oklahoma State	145
9.	Baylor	100
10.	Arizona	94
	Utah	94
12.	Cincinnati	67
	Kansas	67
14.	Houston	61
15.	Iowa State	31
16.	K-State	22

Edited August 13 by blurbeard

GrandGreen · August 13

Not inclined to worry about exhibition losses to good teams away. Particularly, at a mile above sea level.

Edited August 13 by GrandGreen

Ross Hodgeson · August 13

Looking at the stats we actually played them pretty well. Could have gone either way actually.

Matt from A700 · August 13

If this is a learning experience to beat OU Thursday when it really counts, it will be worth it.

UNTLifer · August 13

2 hours ago, Matt from A700 said:

If this is a learning experience to beat OU Thursday when it really counts, it will be worth it.

Considering OU finished 10th in the Big XII last year, I would hope we are ready to go and win at home. Also, this is a relatively young team with quite a few new faces. I am excited about the start of soccer.

Matt from A700 · August 13

2 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

Considering OU finished 10th in the Big XII last year, I would hope we are ready to go and win at home. Also, this is a relatively young team with quite a few new faces. I am excited about the start of soccer.

Definitely need to beat them if you consider Bama will be a tougher game. Going 0-2 would give me premature bad feelings of "this is just like every other year." But Hedlund seemed good about the talent we retained and brought in, especially compared to the rest of the conference.