Hedlund
It’s Sunday night and time for the weekly leftovers, where we hit on the highs and lows of the weekend and try to cover the ground we haven’t gotten to yet.
The big news of the day is that the UNT soccer team beat Old Dominion 2-0 this afternoon and grabbed a share of the Conference USA regular season title.
UNT (13-4-1) has a 7-1-1 record in conference play and can clinch the title outright with a win or a tie over Western Kentucky on Friday at the Mean Green Soccer Complex.
If you had John Hedlund’s crew in the pool for which UNT team would win the first conference title in the C-USA era, congratulation. If not … well, I can’t imagine that you didn’t. It was the obvious pick.
Karla Pineda scored both of UNT’s goals, including one on a corner kick she bent that went in to the net. I wrote about how Pineda can bend the ball like few others earlier this fall.
UNT’s loss to Rice had a morning kickoff, which allowed me to get pretty much everything I wanted to shoehorn into the paper in there. The big question now is how UNT will respond.
The Mean Green have hung in there so far. It’s been a tough year, but guys like Mason Y’Barbo, Carlos Harris and Derek Akunne have kept UNT on track. UNT will have to lean on those guys more than ever now.
Been Blessed to receive my fourth Offer from NorthTexas.. #GoMeanGreen pic.twitter.com/xK9eMEDHKi
— ✨Kyshaun_Smith✨ (@KyshaunSmith) October 26, 2014
And in other news, UNT has offered Tatum linebacker Kyshaun Smith.
What makes Smith particularly interesting is that he is a solid player who has been offered by Houston, Texas State and Memphis, which means there’s a pretty good chance that former UNT assistant Ryan Walters or former UNT head coach Darrell Dickey are involved. Both are on Memphis’ staff.
Memphis is 4-3 and is sitting pretty as far as getting to a bowl this year. The Tigers have four games left with teams that are currently under .500. The Tigers also have three more home games. Chances look good that Dickey and Walters are headed somewhere for the holidays.
Both are among the good guys who have rolled through town over the last decade or so.
I have a message in to Smith and hope to catch up with him in the next couple of days.
And finally, the UNT volleyball team swept Florida International today to get to 6-5 in C-USA play.