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Kansas Soccer: Jayhawks shutout FAU, move to 4-0-0 on the season

By Dylan Morrell

KANSAS CITY, MO - MARCH 13: Baby Jay the Kansas Jayhawks mascot entertains prior to a game against the Baylor Bears during the semifinals round of the Big 12 basketball tournament at Sprint Center on March 13, 2015 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images)
KANSAS CITY, MO - MARCH 13: Baby Jay the Kansas Jayhawks mascot entertains prior to a game against the Baylor Bears during the semifinals round of the Big 12 basketball tournament at Sprint Center on March 13, 2015 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images) /
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The eighteenth ranked Jayhawks held the Florida Atlantic Owls to zero goals in today’s victory at Rock Chalk Park in Lawrence. Kansas soccer’s latest victory puts them at 4-0-0 on the season.

Kansas soccer is off to an even better start than the football team so far. The Jayhawks have been lights out this season, only allowing one goal all year and scoring a total of 13 goals on their past four opponents.

Senior Katie McClure scored her sixth goal of the season and the Jayhawks lone goal in the game. The goal moved McClure into a tie for the all-time goals record at Kansas with 28 career goals. With this only being the fourth game of the season, McClure will end up shattering the record by the end of the season, barring any injuries or other unforeseen events.

“we had to really battle and compete” – Mark Francis, Head Coach

Back to Kansas soccer’s incredible defense, the Jayhawks managed to keep the Owls from scoring despite FAU out-shooting Kansas 9-4. Goalkeeper Sarah Peters was a brick wall in-goal for the Jayhawks and has been all season.

Despite being picked to finish 6th in the conference in the preseason poll, the Jayhawks have been shattering expectations. Kansas joins #24 Texas and #12 West Virginia in the current D1 soccer rankings that came out on August 26th. With their wins over #20 Memphis and FAU, Kansas will look to climb in the next poll that gets released.

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Kansas soccer’s next game is this Friday, September 6th at DePaul where the Jayhawks will look to pick up their 5th win on the season. The game against DePaul with be Kansas’ first road game of the season. Later this month, the Jayhawks will open up Big 12 play against Texas at Rock Chalk Park on Thursday, September 26th.

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