Lady Flames Travel to Louisiana to Wrap Up 2023 Regular Season
10/27/2023 4:00:00 PM | Women's Soccer
LYNCHBURG, Va. – The Liberty women's soccer team faces Louisiana Tech (5-9-3, 2-3-2 CUSA) in its final regular season game of the 2023 season. Match time is set for 2 p.m. ET/1 p.m. CT at Robert Mack Caruthers Field in Ruston, La.
Lady Flames News & Notes
Lady Flames News & Notes
- Liberty is 13-2-1, after a 1-0 loss to Western Kentucky Sunday at home.
- Liberty is currently in third place in the Conference USA standings with a 4-2-1 mark (13 points). The Lady Flames can secure the No. 2 seed and a bye in the CUSA Championship with a WKU (14 points) loss or draw against NMSU on Friday and a Liberty win on Sunday.
- The Lady Flames own a 7-0-1 road record in 2023. Liberty has a 12-3-3 record on the road the past two seasons.
- Liberty currently owns the 10th best W-L-T percentage in the nation (.844).
- GK Ainsley Leja has played every minute of the 2023 season, allowing eight goals. Leja leads CUSA and ranks No. 14 in the nation with nine shutouts (tied). As a team, Liberty leads CUSA and ranks No. 28 (tied) nationally with a .562 shutout percentage.
- Leja leads CUSA and ranks No. 15 in the nation with a 0.50 goals against average (GAA). She also leads CUSA with a save percentage of .830. She has made 39 saves.
- The keeper owns the second highest career GAA (0.56) among active Division l goalkeepers trailing only Stanford's Ryan Campbell (0.50).
- Leja is on track to eclipse her previous school record 0.62 GAA for a season that she set in 2022. She can also match her record of 10 shutouts recorded in 2022.
- Leja and the Liberty defense lead CUSA and rank eighth in the country having allowed eight goals in 16 games this season.
- Following Sunday's match, Rebekah Earnest now ranks No. 4 in program history with 83 games played. Jaime Bouffard (2012-15) is the current program leader with 86.
- The Lady Flames have outscored their opponents 30-8 this season.
- Liberty leads CUSA in shots per game (15.2) and shots on goal per game (7.69). The Lady Flames rank No. 4 in CUSA with 25 assists, 30 goals and 85 points.
- Rachel DeRuby leads Liberty with six goals. DeRuby (two assists) and Ivy Garner (five goals, four assists) share the Liberty lead with 14 points.
- Garner leads Liberty and CUSA with four game-winning goals this season.
- Nine different Lady Flames have scored a goal in 2023. Behind DeRuby with six, Garner and Saydie Holland each have five goals.
- Allison Hansford and Ivy Garner are tied for the Liberty lead and are third in CUSA with four assists apiece.
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