CANYON, Texas – The Lady Buffs of West Texas A&M are Lone Star Conference champions for the seventh time in program history sharing the regular season title with Texas A&M-Commerce after a series of events played out around the league on Sunday afternoon. The Lady Buffs dropped their regular season finale in overtime, 3-2, to Midwestern State at The Pitch in front of 276 fans. WT finishes the regular season with an overall record of 11-5-0 and 9-3-0 in conference play. The Lady Buffs share the title with TAMUC after both teams lost on Sunday afternoon.

"I am proud of how the girls played today and throughout the entire season," WT women's soccer head coach Chad Webb said. "Even though we didn't get the result that we wanted today, we are still co-champions of the conference and should be proud of that. With that being said, we need to turn our attention to the conference tournament next week and what we need to do to be successful there. I want to thank the fans that came out and supported us today. You have been great all season and we appreciate the atmosphere you create."

The Lady Buffs fell behind 1-0 at 12:34 when MSU's Nicole Coetzer flicked Katie Huff's corner kick far post for her sixth of the season. Marlene van Mourik got the Lady Buffs on level terms at 41:05 on a chip shot from 20 yards out. The Hovborg, Denmark native showed her touch to corral a clearance before quickly turning and lofting the ball over the outstretched hands of MSU's Courtney Burnette.

MSU held a 7-4 advantage in shots at half time.

The Lady Buffs took a 2-1 lead on a wonderful ball from Khadidra Debesette at 48:29. The sophomore midfielder received the ball from Forbes on the right end line before finding space and launching the ball across goal off the crossbar giving WT their first lead of the match.

MSU leveled the match at 2-2 on Coetzer's second goal of the match at 54:40 after receiving a pass from Destinee Williamson right in front of goal. The Lady Buffs came within inches of retaking the lead at 72:27 when Ronni Ajeto controlled a long ball right in front of Burnette. The freshman forward then tried to chipped it over the Burnette and nearly accomplished the task until a Mustang defender cleared it off the line at the last second.

MSU scored the golden goal at 93:53 from Katie Huff handing the Lady Buffs just their second loss at The Pitch this season.

The Lady Buffs finished the match with nine shots compared to MSU's 14.

Courtney Dippel made four saves in just her fifth loss of the season.

WT will enter the LSC tournament next week as a No. 2 seed after losing the tiebreaker to TAMUC on goal differential in conference play. The Lady Buffs will play the winner of the 3/6 matchup on Friday, Nov. 4 at 5 p.m. in Commerce, Texas.

NOTES:

·  With the loss, the Lady Buffs trail the all-time series 20-18-3.

· The Lady Buffs allowed three or more goals for the first time this season.

·  Ronni Ajeto had a team-high three shots.

· The Lady Buffs are now 4-3-0 when tied at half time.

· This is the Lady Buffs second regular season championship in school history.