Scorpions hit the road looking for wins

The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College soccer and volleyball teams look for success away from home this weekend.

Coming off Tuesday's victories at Huston-Tillotson University to open Red River Athletic Conference play, the UTB-TSC men's and women's soccer squads travel to Oklahoma to play NAIA nationally ranked non-conference foes Oklahoma City University and Southern Nazarene University.

They play at OCU today and at Southern Nazarene on Saturday. The women play at 2 p.m. and the men at 4 p.m. both days.

"I hope we can continue rolling," UTB-TSC men's soccer coach Dan Balaguero said. "The schedule gets very busy beginning this week, so we need to go into that period with confidence."

The Scorpion men (5-2) defeated Huston-Tillotson 3-1 Tuesday behind a pair of goals from Brian Hardie. The UTB-TSC women (3-1-1) rolled past H-T 6-0 as Julia Dell' Aquila led the way with two goals.

After this weekend, the Scorpion soccer squads return home for a conference doubleheader at Morningside Park Oct. 4 against Northwood University beginning at 1 p.m.

Meanwhile, the UTB-TSC volleyball team will be looking for its first victory of the season this weekend in Houston.

The Scorpions (0-11) have two non-conference matches scheduled at St. Thomas University on Saturday. The first one at 11 a.m. will be against St. Thomas, and the second at 1:30 p.m. will be against Loyola University.

UTB-TSC travels to Texas A&M-Kingsville on Tuesday for a 6 p.m. non-conference match.

The Scorpion men's and women's golf teams aren't scheduled to play until Oct. 6-7 at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Fall Invitational.