{"id":173931,"date":"2025-08-25T09:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/173931\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:03:16","slug":"hill-assists-kafero-roberts-for-last-minute-shot-to-overcome-houston-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/173931\/","title":{"rendered":"Hill Assists Kafero-Roberts for Last Minute Shot to Overcome Houston Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Oral_Roberts_200x200.png\" alt=\"Oral Roberts\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Oral Roberts<\/p>\n<p>8\/28\/2025 | 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Aug. 28 (Thu) \/ 7 p.m.&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Oral_Roberts_200x200.png\" alt=\"Oral Roberts\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Oral Roberts&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/acusports.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/opponent-history\/oral-roberts\/187\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABILENE \u2013<\/strong> Abilene Christian women&#8217;s soccer defended its home turf once again, grinding out a 1-0 victory over Houston Christian on Sunday afternoon at Elmer Gray Stadium. The Wildcats improved to 3-1 overall and 2-0 at home to start the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>After a scoreless first half, the Wildcats continued to build pressure in the second. The breakthrough finally came in the 86th minute, when <a href=\"https:\/\/acusports.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/shakira-kafero-roberts\/11006\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11006\" target=\"_blank\">Shakira Kafero-Roberts<\/a> found the back of the net for her first goal of the season. The game-winner came from <a href=\"https:\/\/acusports.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/peyton-hill\/10987\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10987\" target=\"_blank\">Peyton Hill<\/a>, who tallied her second assist of the year. Hill has been able to manage two assists this weekend, with both game-winning goals for the Wildcats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats leaned heavily on their defense and goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/acusports.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/bella-medrano\/11002\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11002\" target=\"_blank\">Bella Medrano<\/a>, who delivered her second shutout in a row. The freshman recorded six saves, including several key stops in the final 20 minutes, to preserve the shutout and notch her second clean sheet of the season. <a href=\"https:\/\/acusports.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/mccarly-holloman\/10989\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10989\" target=\"_blank\">McCarly Holloman<\/a> showed out on the defense, taking control and having saves of her own to keep the Huskies scoreless.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ACU finished with a slight advantage in shots, comparing their 10 to HCU&#8217;s 9, and edged the Huskies in possession. Both sides had opportunities, as Houston Christian forced seven shots on target, but the Wildcats&#8217; back line stood tall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Going 2-0 on our home opening weekend is huge,&#8221; said head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/acusports.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/coaches\/stephen-salas\/1573\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1573\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Salas<\/a>. &#8220;The team showed grit in finding the game winner in the last five minutes and getting another shutout. It was also a special day for Shakira, who scored her first goal as a Wildcat from Peyton&#8217;s pass into the box. We know she will be scoring many more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the Wildcats&#8217; first time since 2023 to open up their home season 2-0. Holding strong at home, ACU will not host at Elmer Gray until September 11, when they will take on Northwestern State.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through four games, we are still working through our timing and possession,&#8221; Salas said. &#8220;Our team mentality and resilience have been key contributors over these games. I&#8217;m excited about the team&#8217;s continual growth, and we look forward to next week&#8217;s games on the road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats have three road games, making their way through Tulsa (Oral Roberts), down to Commerce (East Texas A&amp;M) and then to Waco (Baylor), for one of their most anticipated Power Four\u00a0opponents of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The road match against Oral Roberts will be on August 28, with kick off being at 7 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Oral Roberts 8\/28\/2025 | 7 p.m. &#13; Aug. 28 (Thu) \/ 7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":173932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-173931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115088602158567970","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}