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Women's Soccer: Former teammates face off in Rivalry game

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After an extensive road trip, New Mexico gets to come home, but they won’t have much time to rest.

Following nearly a month of road games all over the nation, the Lobos get to play in front of home fans for the first time in the 2016-2017 season, and will be facing off against a New Mexico State team with plenty of familiar faces.

“New Mexico is kind of a small soccer community and a lot of their players are from Albuquerque,” Lobo head coach Heather Dyche said. “For a lot of our kids it’s their old teammates, and for me it’s kids that I used to coach and families that I care a lot about.