Cyclones Travel to Baylor Thursday Night

AMES, Iowa - The Iowa State soccer team enters the final stretch of the regular season Thursday, as the Cyclones travel to Baylor. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. at Betty Lou Mays Soccer Field in Waco, Texas. The match will be available on Big 12 Now on ESPN+.

KEY STORYLINES

-Iowa State hits the road for the first of two matches this week, traveling to Baylor. The Cyclones will host Oklahoma on Sunday in the home finale at the Cyclone Soccer Complex.
-The Cyclones are in a battle to earn a spot in the Big 12 Championship. Five teams are fighting for the final three spots in the field, with Iowa State playing two of the other four schools in the final two matches of the year in Oklahoma and Kansas State.
-Baylor has allowed 13 goals in 15 matches this season, ranking third in the Big 12 with .87 goals allowed per match.
-The Cyclones average 5.15 saves per game to lead the Big 12. Kansas State is the only other school to average 5.0 or more, as the Wildcats average 5.0 per match.
-Lauren McConnell and Baylor's Maddie Algya are two of 10 players in the league that have multiple game-winning goals this season.
-In her first collegiate appearance, Rachel Vander Hart recorded three saves in 28:39 of action against #11 TCU on Sunday without allowing a goal.
-Senior Taylor Bee started the 50th match of her career on Sunday against #11 TCU. An anchor on the Cyclone defense, Bee joins fellow senior McKenna Schultz (65) as the only current Cyclones with 50 or more career starts.
-Senior McKenna Schultz appeared in her 78th career match on Sunday against #11 TCU. Schultz is now tied for ninth in school history in most career matches played.

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