TEMPE \u2013 Currently sitting near the top of the table of the Big 12 Conference standings, the unbeaten Sun Devil Soccer squad (8-0-2, 1-0-1) will wrap up a seven-match homestand on Sunday, Sept. 28, when ASU welcomes UCF (6-2-1, 0-1-1) to Sun Devil Soccer Stadium for a conference matchup beginning at 1 p.m. MST.<\/p>\n
Since returning to Tempe following a three-match road tile in late August, Arizona State has earned five wins in six home matches with the lone oddity being a 0-0 tie against Oklahoma State last time out. Over the six-match stretch, the Sun Devils have outscored their opponents 11-3 and recorded three clean sheets.<\/p>\n
TELEVISION: <\/p>\n
Ryan Sykora (play by play) and Adrian Pelayo (analyst) will serve as the talent for the ESPN+ broadcast that is available to stream on multiple platforms, including the ESPN app.<\/p>\n
SERIES HISTORY:<\/p>\n
Sunday afternoon will make the first time UCF has played Arizona State in Tempe since Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, when the then-No. 24 ranked Knights won, 2-1, in the Sun Devil Classic.
\nArizona State will look for its first win over UCF since Sunday, Sept. 10, 2006, when the Sun Devils bested the Knights, 2-0, in Las Vegas as a part of the UNLV Invite.
\nUCF will bring a 3-1-1 all-time record against Arizona State into Sunday\u2019s meeting between the two programs.<\/p>\n
KICKING OFF:<\/p>\n
If she plays 30:08 of Sunday\u2019s match, Arizona State senior Pauline Nelles<\/a> will become just the fourth Sun Devil goalkeeper to play 6,000-or-more career minutes between the pipes. Nelles will join Morris (7,124:06; 2011-15), Erin Reinke<\/a> (6,405:36; 1997-00) and Kim Bingham<\/a> (2003-06).\u00a0She\u2019ll become the first ASU student-athlete to reach the mark since Chandler Morris<\/a> did so as a senior in 2015. \u00a0FOLLOW US: <\/p>\n For the latest information on the team, follow @SunDevilSoccer on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. General athletic news can also be found at @TheSunDevils on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE \u2013 Currently sitting near the top of the table of the Big 12 Conference standings, the unbeaten…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[87799,6437,39805,49,48,561,82,87798],"class_list":["post-174138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-arizona-state-athletics","tag-arizona-state-sun-devils","tag-arizona-state-university","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-sun-devils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIf Pauline Nelles<\/a> is credited with a clean sheet against UCF on Sunday afternoon, the fourth-year senior Sun Devil will tie Chandler Morris<\/a> (2011-15) for the most career clean sheets in program history.\u00a0Nelles and Morris are currently the only Sun Devil women\u2019s soccer student-athletes in program history with 20-or-more career clean sheets.
\nNot only will a clean sheet by Pauline Nelles<\/a> on Sunday tie the program\u2019s career mark, but she will also join Chandler Morris<\/a> as the only Sun Devil goalkeepers to record at least six career clean sheets in a single season in three seasons between the pipes.<\/p>\n