NATCHITOCHES—Following a weekend in which the Northwestern State women's soccer earned a pair of key victories, the team welcomes Texas A&M-Commerce for a Southland Conference home contest Sunday at the Lady Demon Soccer Complex.

Kickoff is at 1 p.m.

NSU (7-3-3 overall, 4-2-2 SLC) is fresh off a weekend in which it knocked off previously unbeaten Lamar on the road before coming home and rolling to a 5-0 victory against Nicholls.

The schools are tied 1-1 in the all-time series, but NSU won the first meeting this season between the schools 4-1 in Commerce, which had to be spread over two days due to several lightning delays in the first half.

NSU's four goals in the game were scored by four different players and five players recorded two points, as Jalen Donaldson registered a pair of assists.

The Lady Demons led 2-0 when the contest was stopped. After a goal early in the second half by TAMUC, NSU tallied the final two en route to the victory.

"We saw two different sides of them last time," NSU women's soccer coach Stuart Gore said. "I am pretty sure we'll see the team from the second day. They came out and were hungry and they have had a good last couple of results, so they will be super pumped. It will be a battle."

NSU is currently in second place and TAMUC is tied for third with both Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Houston Christian. The four teams are separated by just one point.

Olivia Draguicevich, who scored in the first victory over TAMUC, leads the team in both points (20) and goals (9). The senior is coming off a two-goal performance in the triumph against Nicholls, putting her total at 33 career goals, two behind Britiany Cargill for the most in school history.

Reigning SLC Offensive Player of the Week Gracie Armstrong scored four times in the two victories this past weekend, including two in the win at previously undefeated Lamar.

"There were plenty of times early in the season where I was down on myself when I wasn't scoring early in the year," Armstrong said. "It was reassurance from my teammates during it that helped me. There were chances I had that I just didn't finish and my teammates helped me stay positive and helped me make sure that it would happen. And it did."

Taylor Spitzer added her fourth goal of the season in the Nicholls game, one of three players with four times finding the back of the net, joining Draguicevich and Armstrong.

Eleven players have scored at least once with six having scored multiple goals.

The defense has been lights out all year, but especially this past weekend, surrendering zero goals on just five shots, earning Nicole Henry and Chloe DeShazer the conference defender and goalkeeper of the week, respectively.

"We've worked on communication the last few weeks," DeShazer said. "We communicate really well with each other and work really well. I don't face that many shots in a game and I owe that to my back line."

NSU has held its opponents to one or fewer goals in 12 of the 13 contests and has out-shot its opponent in all but one game as well.

The stingy defense will have to come to play once again, as it plays the leading scorer in league games Mya Mitchell. She has eight goals and 18 points, including the lone goal for TAMUC in the first meeting.

Jen Peters and Gillian McKenzie have split goalkeeper duties. Peters had posted three straight shutouts prior to surrendering two goals in a loss to Lamar.

Following the contest, NSU hits the road for its final two road matches of the season when it travels to TAMUCC on Friday and UIW on Oct. 23. The team returns home for the final game of the regular season on Oct. 28 against Southeastern Louisiana.