{"id":425855,"date":"2026-09-04T07:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/425855\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T07:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:10:18","slug":"owls-fall-in-valiant-effort-at-no-17-texas-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/425855\/","title":{"rendered":"Owls Fall in Valiant Effort at No. 17 Texas State"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN MARCOS \u2013 The Rice soccer team put up a valiant fight after being short-handed for the final 70 minutes of the match, but couldn’t hold off No. 17 Texas State 4-3 Thursday night in San Marcos, Texas. The Owls fall to 1-3-2 in the season, while the Bobcats move to 6-0-1.
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\nHow It Happened
\nThe Rice offense struck right out of the gates, with Neerali Kapadia<\/a> finding the back of the net off a saved shot by Valentina Labuschagne<\/a> just seven minutes into the match. Shortly after, the Owls were assessed a red card, going down to 10 players. In the 22nd minute, the Owls struck again off a goal from Sloane Popov<\/a>, with Kapadia recording the assist. Rice was given a second red card soon after, going down to nine players. The Owl defense held the rest of the half as Rice led 2-0.
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\nFive minutes into the second half, Texas State found its first goal to cut the deficit to one. In the 65th minute, Lauren Pickup<\/a> found a response off a pass from Jadyn Jaeger<\/a> to extend the Owl lead. Texas State broke through Rice’s nine-player defense in the final 20 minutes, netting three goals to take the win.
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\n07:49 \u2013 RICE \u2013 Goal by Neerali Kapadia<\/a>, assisted by Valentina Labuschagne<\/a>
\n21:11 \u2013 RICE \u2013 Goal by Sloane Popov<\/a>, assisted by Neerali Kapadia<\/a>
\n50:58 \u2013 TXST \u2013 Goal by Matsuri Tsutsui, assisted by Victoria Meza, Constance Agyemang
\n64:44 \u2013 RICE \u2013 Goal by Lauren Pickup<\/a>, assisted by Jadyn Jaeger<\/a>
\n71:13 \u2013 TXST \u2013 Goal by Nerea Sanchez, assisted by Annabelle Fisher
\n73:40 \u2013 TXST \u2013 Goal by Kaylie Smith, assisted by Victoria Meza
\n89:04 \u2013 TXST \u2013 Goal by Victoria Meza, assisted by Ava Kooker
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\nQuick Hits
\nTexas State outshot Rice 22-13, while both sides had seven shots on goal.
\nThe Bobcats had a 10-3 corner kick advantage.
\nKapadia and Popov scored their first career goals.
\nPickup netted her third goal of the season.
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\nUp Next
\nRice continues the ranked matchups Sunday afternoon at the reigning national champion, No. 15 Florida State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN MARCOS \u2013 The Rice soccer team put up a valiant fight after being short-handed for the final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-425855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}