Friday, February 3, 2012

No. 8 Georgia heads to Arkansas after 6-0 loss to LSU

By on September 27, 2009

The eighth-ranked Georgia soccer team continues its six-game road trip when the Bulldogs face Arkansas Sunday at 2 p.m. Eastern.

Both teams entered the weekend as two of the 13 remaining Division I teams without a loss, but they both fell Friday night as LSU defeated Georgia 6-0 in Baton Rouge, and Tennessee downed Arkansas 1-0 in Fayetteville.

“We feel fortunate to have an opportunity to play so quickly after an embarrassing performance on Friday night,” said head coach Patrick Baker. “We didn’t give a full account of ourselves and some of that needs to be credited to a very good LSU team. There was a lack of movement, very little passion and poor decision making amongst the players and those elements have nothing to do with kicking a soccer ball. Hopefully that doesn’t occur against a very good Arkansas team tomorrow. They are having a very successful season and our collective performance needs to be much better. Both teams will be hungry for their first conference win and road wins in this conference are hard to come by.”

The Razorbacks (6-1-2) have earned wins over Michigan, Air Force, Missouri State, Oral Roberts, Stephen F. Austin and Florida International while tying Tulsa and Florida Atlantic – the only common opponent of the two squads as Georgia defeated the Owls earlier this season.

A total of 12 players have scored goals for Arkansas, paced by Allie Chandler’s three. Three players have scored twice and eight more have score once. In goal, Britni Williams has earned eight of nine starts and has allowed just three goals all season for a 0.38 GAA. Williams has 27 saves on the year to go along with five shutouts – good for second in the SEC entering the weekend.

Georgia (7-1-1) leads the all-time series with Arkansas 7-2-2 including a 3-1 mark under Baker. The Bulldogs are 4-0-1 all-time in Fayetteville.

- Georgia Sports Communications