ASC CHAMPIONSHIP CENTRAL
LONGVIEW -- LeTourneau University men's soccer team will be making its sixth appearance in the American Southwest Conference Championship Tournament when the YellowJackets play at the University of Texas at Dallas in Tuesday's 8 p.m. quarterfinals.
LETU (7-9-2) is the No. 8 seed, while the Comets (14-3-2) own the top spot after winning the ASC regular season title. The winner advances to Friday's semifinals in Richardson.
The YellowJackets lost the regular season meeting to UT Dallas in Richardson, 4-0. Jovi Munoz and Alfredo Kaegi each scored a pair of goals for the Comets in that game. It was a game in which LeTourneau goalkeeper
Austin Dunegan made his first career start. He faced 25 shots, and made 12 saves in that match.
Since, Dunegan has won two of his next three starts, while stopping 13 shots and authoring a 0.795 saves percentage with two shutouts. Both of the shutouts came in the games that followed the UT Dallas meeting. LeTourneau scored nine goals in those two wins.
Munoz and Kaegi lead the ASC in goals and points at 13 and nine, and 28 and 22, respectively. LETU's
Oliver Placencia is tied for sixth in the league in goals (7) and tied for ninth in points (17).
Luis De La Torre leads the ASC in assists (7), and
Chancey Davis is fourth (5). Dunegan's two shutouts are tied for seventh.
LeTourneau is seeking its first win in the league postseason tournament since 1998. LETU is 1-5 all time in the ASC Championship event. This is the YellowJackets' second straight trip to the tournament under head coach
Collin Cone.
LIVE STREAM
LIVE STATS