Box Score OKLAHOMA CITY (Oct. 3, 2015) – Oklahoma Christian women's soccer coach
Randall Robison said his team is past accepting moral victories, so he hold his players that losing like they did to Dallas Baptist (Texas) on Saturday should hurt.
That said, the Lady Eagles have made apparent that even the best Heartland Conference foes won't be able to assume anything when they play OC. Dallas Baptist – perhaps the league's best team, based on early season results – needed a golden goal in overtime by Emilie MacDonald to escape the Eagle Soccer Field with a 1-0 win.
OC (3-5-1, 0-2 Heartland) had its chances to score but proved unable to convert. Still, the Lady Eagles played solid defense, with defenders
Karolina Srutkova and
Amanda Cooper and goalkeeper
Carina Schanz continually keeping Dallas Baptist (6-3-1, 2-0) at bay, even as the Patriots outshot OC 21-8 and took eight corner kicks to none for the Lady Eagles.
The best scoring opportunities in the first half belonged to OC. Freshman midfielder
Rubí Villegas Aguilar hit the crossbar with a spinning, twisting blast in the ninth minute. About a minute later, the Lady Eagles caught Dallas Baptist goalkeeper Jenna Ackerly out of position, but neither Mackenziii Bieke nor
Madeline Roseke was able to get a touch on the loose ball.
The Patriots ratcheted up the pressure in the second half, outshooting OC 12-4. Schanz made a point-blank sliding stop on a shot from 10 yards out by McKenna Namken, and in the 80th minute, Ashley Cox hit the crossbar with a shot for Dallas Baptist.
OC's best second-half scoring chance came in the 60th minute, when Ackerly had to make a point-blank save of her own on a shot by Roseke.
Dallas Baptist was the aggressor in overtime, rarely letting the ball out of OC's half of the field. The game-winner by McDonald in the 97th minute came on a shot from about 15 yards out, as she chipped the ball over Schanz, who had come off her line to try and aggressively defend.
Schanz finished with five saves, while Ackerly had four for the Patriots.
OC's next four games will be on the road, starting with a matchup Thursday at Heartland rival Texas-Permian Basin.
