WICHITA FALLS, Texas – Midwestern State hosts St. Mary's on Wednesday night with the No. 1 seed in the Lone Star Conference Postseason Tournament at stake. The Mustangs will be the No. 1 seed with a win or a draw. St. Mary's will the No. 1 seed if they win the game. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.

Midwestern State, which is 13-0-4 overall this season, is 7-0-2 in conference play and atop the LSC standings with 23 points. The Rattlers are 6-1-2 in conference play with 20 points and currently behind Oklahoma Christian, which has completed its regular season with a 6-0-4 conference record and has 22 points.

Midwestern State is 41-5-0 in the all-time series with St. Mary's and has won the last seven meetings. Including a 2-1 victory at Sigma Beta Chi Field last season. The Stangs clinched their 12th LSC regular season championship — the third under head coach Michael Meachum. 

Last year marked the third time in five years that Midwestern State captured the title, contributing to the program's impressive tally of 15 regular season conference championships since 1999.

The two teams also met in a non-conference match last season at Stang Park, and MSU prevailed, 2-1.

Midwestern State enters this year's matchup with a school record 28-game unbeaten streak following a 4-0 victory at Sul Ross State. 

Parker Plaxco scored his 14th goal of the season in the 13th minute, surpassing his total from last year. Plaxco is the leading goal scorer in the conference, and he leads the league with six game-winning goals. 

Jose Ortiz scored his eighth goal of the season in the 41st minute, assisted by Ethan Krchnak, who scored his first goal of the season in the 35th minute. Ortiz is the second leading goal scorer in the LSC.

Krchnak was named the LSC Defensive Player of the Week. The junior from Pearland, Texas, has seven assists this season, ranking him second in the league.

Midwestern State is outscoring its opponents, 48-13, and its plus-35 goal differential is the best in the LSC and third-best among NCAA Division II programs.  Three Mustangs are among the top-10 leading goal scorers in the conference. Alan Rivera has the 10th-most goals in the LSC with five. 

Thirteen different Mustangs have scored this season, and the team is averaging a conference-leading 2.8 goals per game, which is fourth among NCAA Division II programs. Fifteen different players have registered an assist, and the Mustangs are leading the league and seventh in the nation with 2.4 assists per game.

Plaxco is leading the team with 28 points and Ortiz has 17 for the Mustangs. Alan Rivera has five goals and four assists for 14 points, and Cooper Tea has 10 points with two goals and six assists.

St. Mary's opened conference play with five straight wins and the played a 0-0 draw at UT Dallas before suffering a 1-0 loss at Oklahoma Christian. The Rattlers played a 1-1 draw at Dallas Baptist before defeating West Texas A&M, 3-0, on Saturday. 

Kai Louviere scored twice for the Rattlers in the Senior Night victory over WT at Sigma Beta Chi Field. Louviere and Eduardo Fernandez each have six goals for the Rattlers this season, but their leading goal scorer is Sebastian Poblete, who has eight goals and three assists in 16 games. Poblete is tied with Ortiz and Avery Brazzell of UT Dallas for the second-most goals in the LSC, and he is second behind Plaxco for the most points in the LSC this season. 

Nichito Misac is the LSC Goalkeeper of the Week. The freshman from Portugal made nine saves and recorded his fifth clean sheet of the season with a career-hisix saves against West Texas A&M. He allowed just one goal in a 1-1 road draw against DBU. Misac is 10-4-2 in his 16 starts this season with a 0.82 goals-against average and a .776 save percentage. 

Midwestern State goalkeeper Jake Morris has started all 17 games and is a two-time LSC Goalkeeper of the Week this season. Morris is 13-0-4 with a save percentage of .809 and a goal-against average of 0.8. Morris has five clean sheets this season after making two saves at Sul Ross in the 4-0 win on Saturday. The junior from Parker, Colorado, made four saves but conceded a goal in the fifth minute against the Rattlers in San Antonio last season.

The six-team LSC men's soccer tournament begins with the quarterfinals on Saturday. The semifinals and final are hosted by the No. 1 and No. 2 seed. The title match will be hosted by the highest remaining seed.