Box Score

DALLAS (SMU) — The SMU women's soccer program fought hard but fell to No. 12 Texas 6-3 on Thursday inside Washburne Stadium.

SMU suffered its first loss of the season and is now 2-1-0, as Texas improved to 3-0-0. SMU is the first team this season to score against Texas.
 
Two-time NJCAA national champion Lou Brossault scored her first career goal as a Mustang with a free kick into the back of the net.  
 
Truth Byars netted her first goal of the season at the beginning of the second half off a feed from Sophie King and then Eliana Salama would score one more late in the match 
 
After a tough first half, the Mustangs regrouped in the second and outshout the Longhorns 12-6, adding two goals in the process.
 
The Mustangs were without Hermann Trophy Watch List recipient Nyah Rose, who was called back to Canada to compete for the country's U-20 FIFA World Cup team.

// HOW IT HAPPENED
Both teams generated chances early in the match, but Texas struck first, as Trinity Byars slipped one past SMU goalkeeper Sierra Cota-Yarde in the 10^th minute.
 
SMU would respond with a couple of runs at goal but was unable to find the back of the net. With a chase-down block shot on a free runner from Lydia Ungashick and a big save from Cota -Yarde kept things where they were at.
 
Texas scored three consecutive goals before Lou Brossault netted her first career goal in the 43rd minute. Brossault used a free kick from just outside the box to bend one past the outstretched arms of the Texas goalkeeper.
 
SMU would head to the break down 4-1, as Texas rattled off 11 shots in the half.
 
The Mustangs came out of the half playing aggressive as Sphoie King would find Truth Byars just outside the box, where she sent a rocket into the back of the net, cutting into the Texas lead (4-2).
 
In total Byars sister, Truth (SMU) and Trinity (Texas) accounted for five of the nine goals scored during the match.
 
Texas would add two more goals in the 80^th minute and 87^th minute.
 
SMU would answer in the 88^th minute as Eliana Salama scored her second goal of the season and the sixth of her career to close out the match.

// OTHER NOTES
SMU is now 8-3-2 all-time versus Texas.
In her third season as head coach of the Mustangs, Nicole Nelson is now 23-11-6.
SMU now holds a record of 20-5-3 at home since 2021.
The Mustangs are now 464-241-59 all-time in program history.