San Antonio – The Angelo State soccer team dropped their conference opener this afternoon to St. Mary's (TX) by a score line of 2-1. With neither team scoring in the first 45 minutes of play, the scoring opened in the 64^th minute by the Rattlers off a goal kick.

It took the Belles ten minutes to respond, doing so through Madison Maxey's first goal of the season, tapping in a squared ball from the left side courtesy of Grace Jordan.

The Rattlers would take back the lead a mere six seconds later, scoring on a speculative effort from outside of the right corner of the Belles' penalty area following kickoff.

"We switched off after equalizing," said head coach Travis McCorkle about the Rattlers' game-winner. "Our girl got cut 1v1 in that situation and it was a great bomb from her."

For the match, the Belles barely outshot the visitors 11-9 and only won three corner kicks, also fouling the Rattlers 11 times during the match.

"I want to see us defending better, we didn't do a good job of that," said McCorkle. "I want to see how we will respond to that in practice this week and on Saturday."

The loss snaps a 15-game regular season winning streak for the Belles, which started back on February 24^th of this year, the first game of their spring 2021 season.

The Belles are now 5-1 overall and 0-1 in conference play. Their conference home opener will be on Saturday when they host Eastern New Mexico at 1 p.m.