Texas Tech wins Big 12 Soccer Championship

On Sunday, the Texas Tech women’s soccer team defeated the Kansas Jayhawks 1-0 to win the program’s first ever Big 12 title.

After being led all season long by 2014 and 2015 Big 12 Player of the Year Janine Beckie, who led the league with 14 points and 7 goals this season, an unlikely hero emerged for the Red Raiders today in Kansas, City.

Freshman Gwennie Puente from Ft. Worth scored the game’s only goal in the 85th minute to bring Texas Tech head coach Tom Stone his first Big 12 championship.

Puente’s goal, her third of the season (but likely the biggest of her life) came on a wild sequence in the Jayhawks’ end of the pitch. The Kansas goalkeeper deflected a shot by Caity Heap but Texas…