Oklahoma State University Athletics
Women's Soccer Prepares For Texas Swing
October 25, 2001 | Cowgirl Soccer
Oct. 25, 2001
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Oklahoma State's women's soccer team (7-7-1 overall and 2-4-1 in Big 12) will begin a two-game swing through the state of Texas on Friday night as it travels to Austin to take on the Texas Longhorns. The Cowgirls will close out the weekend with a stop in College Station to take on the Texas A&M Aggies.
Texas, ranked No. 10 nationally, is in the midst of a nine-game winning streak and will enter the weekend with a record of 9-3 and 7-0. The Longhorns are led offensively by freshman forward Kelly Wilson. The Odessa, Texas, native has tallied 26 points this season on nine goals and eight assists.
A pair of goalkeepers, Shay Wilkerson and Alex Gagarin, have split time in net for UT this season. Each has started six times and have allowed six goals apiece. Both players have recorded a pair of shutouts. Wilkerson is 3-3-0 on the season while Gagarin is 6-0-0.
The Longhorns won last year's meeting in Stillwater 2-0 and own a 4-0-1 advantage in the all-time series.
The No. 14 Aggies are sporting an 8-3-1 overall mark and sit at 5-1-1 in conference play. Texas A&M has won its last two games. Offensively, A&M is led by Linsey Johnson's 27 points. The freshman forward has notched 11 goals and five assists this season.
Sophomore Esther Thompson has anchored the goalkeeping duties for the majority of the 2001 campaign for the Aggies. She has started 11 times and has posted three shutouts en route to a 6-3-1 record.
Week in Review
Oklahoma State's soccer team suffered just its second home setback of
the season on Friday night, losing 3-1 to the fifth-ranked Nebraska
Cornhuskers before 837 fans at the Cowgirl Soccer Complex.
The Cowgirls took a 1-0 lead in the game's 16th minute on sophomore Joanne Edwards' fourth goal of the season. On the play, freshman Courtney Robb took the ball down the sideline and played it into the NU box. From there it deflected off the crossbar and onto the foot of Edwards, who put it into the back of the net.
OSU clung to its lead through intermission and fought off a relentless Husker attack for the first 20 minutes of the second half. At the 65:24 mark, Breanna Boyd launched a shot from 40 yards out that slipped under the crossbar and found the net to knot the score at 1-1.
Nebraska took the lead just 36 seconds later when Christine Latham blasted the game winner past OSU goalkeeper Kat Doud off an assist from Kori Saunders.
Latham, the 2000 Big 12 Player of the Year, struck again just three minutes later, slipping in her second goal of the night off a feed from Kelly Rheem to provide the game's final margin.
The Cowgirls closed out the home portion of its conference schedule on Sunday with a 1-1 double overtime tie with Iowa State before 641 fans at the Cowgirl Soccer Complex.
Iowa State (3-8-2 overall and 1-4-2 Big 12) jumped out in front in the game's 17th minute when midfielder Erin Weldon lofted a high ball that drifted deep into the Cowgirl box. OSU goalkeeper Kat Doud misplayed the ball and midfielder Nikki Gamble put it in the back of the net from point-blank range, giving the Cyclones a 1-0 lead.
With the wind at their back, ISU kept the ball in OSU's half for much of the first period, but was unable to take advantage again.
The Cowgirls equalized one minute into the second half when sophomore Kim Graves dribbled a ball deep into ISU's end and played a ball off a Cyclone defender for her seventh goal of the season.
Much like ISU, OSU was unable to take advantage of the wind again despite generating several prime scoring opportunities. In the half, the Cowgirls had seven corner kicks and a breakaway attempt by forward Jolene Schweitzer that narrowly missed in the latter stages of the half.
The two squads were unable to settle anything after 30 minutes of extra time as well. Both teams played evenly in the overtime, registering five shots and one corner kick apiece.
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