MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The No. 7 West Virginia women’s soccer team battles Baylor at 7 p.m. Friday, at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium in Morgantown.
Due to safety precautions from the COVID-19 pandemic, only essential game operations personnel and families of the players and women’s soccer staff will be admitted into the stadium. WVU hopes to invite spectators back to Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium for the team’s final home game of the fall on Oct. 30.
“(Baylor) is a team that does their system better than anyone in the country,” WVU coach Nikki Izzo-Brown said. “They will disrupt you, they’ll bring an incredible amount of intensity to the game, and they all buy-in to the way they need to play. We definitely know it’s going to be a really hard-fought game.”
Friday marks the 10th overall meeting between the Mountaineers (4-1, 4-1 Big 12) and Bears (1-1-3, 1-1-3 Big 12). WVU leads the all-time series, 6-2-1, despite BU winning two of the last three matchups. Last year, the Bears took down West Virginia, 4-2, last season, at Betty Lou Mays Field in Waco, Texas.
The result marked WVU’s first-ever loss in Waco.
The Mountaineers are coming off a 2-1 win over Texas Tech on Oct. 9, at John Walker Soccer Complex in Lubbock, Texas. Sophomore forward/defender Julianne Vallerand gave West Virginia the lead in the 47th minute, before senior midfielder Stefany Ferrer-vanGinkel tallied the eventual game-winner in the 82nd. A trio of juniors — midfielder Isabella Sibley, defender Jordan Brewster and forward Alina Stahl — earned assists in the win.
Nick Farrell and Adam Zundell have the call of Friday’s contest on Big 12 Now on ESPN+. For more information, or to sign up for the digital platform, visit wvusports.com/Big12Now. The game also can be heard on 91.7 FM (WWVU) in Morgantown. Live stats are available at wvusports.com
