TLU Sports Information & Sports Marketing
Bryce Hayes
For Immediate Release
SEGUIN, Texas — Texas Lutheran men’s soccer has announced its 2024 fall schedule featuring a 16-match slate and 11 conference matchups on Thursday.
Under the direction of head coach Eddie Salazar in his 19th season, the Bulldogs will open their season with a home match against the 2023 American Southwest Conference Tournament champion UT-Dallas Comets on Friday, Aug. 30 at Gustafson Field.
The team will return to Gustafson Field Sunday, Sept. 1 to match up against the 2023 American Southwest Conference regular season champion Mary Hardin-Baylor Crusaders. Texas Lutheran will then travel to Ohio to face Capital (Sept. 6) and Otterbein (Sept. 8) before traveling to Hardin-Simmons (Sept. 13) to conclude non-conference play.
The Bulldogs will kick off SCAC play at Southwestern on (Sept. 27) and at Dallas (Oct. 4). The team will ten host Austin College in their conference home opener on Sunday, Oct. 6.
TLU will travel to Trinity (Oct. 11) and Schreiner (Oct. 13) before returning to Seguin to host St. Thomas (Oct. 18) and Colorado College (Oct. 20). TLU’s final regular season road trip will feature matches at new SCAC member Ozarks (AR) (Oct. 25) and Centenary (Oct. 27).
Texas Lutheran will return home against new conference foe, McMurry, on Friday, Nov. 1 before hosting Concordia (TX), who will also be in their first season in the SCAC, for their regular season finale on Sunday, Nov. 3.
Before the regular season begins, Texas Lutheran will play a pair of exhibition matches at home in August. The Bulldogs will square off against Houston-Victoria on Thursday, Aug. 22 before hosting Our Lady of the Lake on Monday, Aug. 26.
In total, Texas Lutheran will face five teams who made appearances in the 2023 NCAA Division-III Men’s Soccer Tournament in UT-Dallas, Otterbein, Trinity, St. Thomas, and Colorado College.
The Bulldogs finished the 2023 season 14-3 overall and 5-3 in the SCAC. The Bulldogs secured the best finish in program history by winning percentage with the 14-3 record (.824) while the 14 wins matched the second most in a single-season in program history. Texas Lutheran earned a national ranking for the first time in program history last season reaching as high as number 16 in the country. Texas Lutheran will be led by All-American midfielder Jack Manke (Houston/Stratford) and All-Region defender Diego Roman (Houston/Lamar) in addition to the eight additional All-SCAC honorees returning for the Bulldogs.
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