OKLAHOMA CITY (Sept. 1, 2018) – Less than seven minutes in, Oklahoma Christian was controlling the action against Southern Nazarene and had seized an early lead.

But the Lady Eagles couldn't sustain that momentum, surrendering a tying goal a minute later, falling behind before halftime and never finding a solution the rest of the way en route to a 2-1 loss to SNU at the Eagle Soccer Field on Saturday.

On a steamy afternoon – the game-time temperature was 96 degrees – OC (0-2) started hot and took the game to the Crimson Storm. In the seventh minute, Darrian Palacios peppered SNU goalkeeper Ashlynn Pritchett with a powerful shot, which Pritchett knocked away – right to OC's Chanie Scrivner, who put the rebound into the net for the Lady Eagles' first goal of the 2018 season.

SNU (1-1) quickly answered, as Alejandra Andrade crossed the ball into the penalty box from the right wing and Kelsi Bussert headed it into the goal to tie the game in the eighth minute.

The Crimson Storm went up 2-1 in the 36th minute, as Karsyn Matthews – standing in the middle of the penalty box – took a cross from the right wing by Kayla Davis and scored easily.

Both teams finished with 15 shots, with OC having a 7-4 upper hand in the second half. But the closest the Lady Eagles came to equalizing came in the 85th minute, when Pritchett made the last of her eight saves by parrying a long-rage shot by Palacios into the crossbar.

OC kept the pressure on until the final moments, with Michell Fuentes firing her team's final shot just wide of the goal with one second left on the clock, but couldn't break through.

OC goalkeeper Addison Milner finished with four saves.

The Lady Eagles will go on the road for the first time this season on Thursday, visiting No. 17-ranked Southwestern Oklahoma State, a team that reached the final 16 of last year's NCAA Division II tournament. OC will return home next Saturday, hosting Northwestern Oklahoma State in the Lady Eagles' final nonconference game of the season.