SAN MARCOS, Texas – The San Diego State women’s soccer team (7-3-1, 1-1-0 Pac-12) earned its first conference victory as members of the Pac-12 on Sunday with a road win at No. 22 Texas State (7-3-2, 0-2-0 Pac-12).
SDSU keeper Kailey Carlen made her first save of the day just 122 seconds into the match and San Diego State had a team save 34 seconds afterwards. However, it mostly be the Aztecs making the opposing keeper work in goal the remainder of the match, putting 19 shots on goal in the final 87 minutes to the Bobcats’ one. Katie Senn had the first SDSU shot on goal in the fifth minute. Caitlyn Draper made the first of her 14 saves on a shot by Victoria Miller late in the eighth minute. Carlen made her final save of the day on Jenny Ngankem at 12:55.
Alexyz Nakamoto and Senn forced two more saves in the late 15th and early 16th minutes. KK Chowana-Bandhu took a nice shot in the 26th and was quickly followed by two from Miller and one each by Senn and Nakamoto. Chowana-Bandhu put up the Aztecs’ tenth shot on target of the half in the 36th.
San Diego State’s pressure on Draper did not relent heading into the second half. Alexis Leath got things started with a shot to the bottom right of the net less than four minutes into the half. Chowana-Bandhu followed with one to the left side of the net a minute later. Ten minutes later, each added one more.
After Texas State was able to keep the Aztecs away from the goal for a few minutes and give Draper a respite, Kenny Moore started things back up in the 72nd minute. Leath and Chowana-Bandhu each added shots on target in the 76th minute but Draper kept making stops to keep the match tied at zero. Finally, at 76:37, SDSU broke through. Katie Senn took a corner kick and Mia Hambro Svendsen headed it in for her first goal since she scored in the 1-0 win over Colorado State in the 2025 Mountain West Quarterfinals. Texas State challenged the goal but was unsuccessful.
Senn looked to add on in the 81st minute, but Draper made one last save. A minute later, Texas State’s Annabelle Fisher was given a yellow card, the first one for either team in the match. The Bobcats took two late shots, but they were off and their free kick with five seconds remaining fell harmlessly away as the Aztecs held on for the 1-0 win.
The Aztecs finished the match with more shots (22-9), shots on goal (19-3), corner kicks (11-1) and fouls (18-6). The Bobcats had more saves (14-2).
THE NOTE
San Diego State earned its first ranked win since defeating No. 22 Nebraska 2-1 in double overtime on September 8, 2017, but its first ranked win in regulation since a 2-0 victory at No. 16 Kentucky on August 23, 2015.
UP NEXT
The Aztecs round out this road trip with a match at Oregon State at 6 p.m. PT on Thursday, October 8. All home matches on the SDSU Sports Deck have free admission, and all of the Aztecs’ Pac-12 matches are streamed on the Pac-12 YouTube channel.