Box Score WEATHERFORD, Okla. – Playing with only four available subs, SWOSU fell 2-1 to visiting Ouachita Baptist. Bryson Rial and Haley Hatcher scored two first half goals for the Lady Tigers.
Cori Kelly scored the consolation for SWOSU for her fourth goal of the season.
OBU came out on the front foot in the first half, recording the first three shots of the game inside of ten minutes.
Courtney Flores was called into action to make one save on a shot from Hatcher. SWOSU registered their first shot of the game courtesy of
Ashlee Trotter who was making her second straight start in relief of an injured
Ashlee Beitinger, but it was blocked.
Rial broke the deadlock in the 18th minute. OBU earned a free kick off a SWOSU foul in the middle of the pitch, and Alisa Trejo stepped up to take the kick. Her kick glanced off the hands of Flores who had come out to collect it, and Rial found the ball for the tap in.
SWOSU began to press for the opening goal, but were off the mark.
Olivia Butler sent her first shot high over the bar in the 25th minute.
Shelley Mueller followed that effort up in the 29th minute, but her shot was blocked. Her deflected shot earned a corner, which Eastman connected with, but her shot hit off the post and out.
The Lady Tigers doubled their lead in the 42nd minute courtesy of Haley Hatcher. The Great American Conference's leading goal-scorer got herself free 20 yards out on the right side of the field. She curled her shot towards the far post and out of the reach of an outstretched Flores. OBU would carry a 2-0 lead going into the end of the half.
SWOSU took six of the first eight shots in the second half, but none found the back of the net. Kelly and
Jasmine Heffley saw their back-to-back shots hit the crossbar and OBU defender respectively.
Aimi Mumford recorded SWOSU's first shot on-frame when she forced OBU keeper Lauren Llanes into a save in the 66th minute.
In the final minute of the game, a nice bit of play between Kelly and
Eva Rule allowed SWOSU to get on the board. Kelly sent Rule through on an incisive pass into the box. Rule got on the end of it and squared it to Kelly who had tracked to the middle of the box. Kelly made no mistake as she smashed the ball into the goal in the final seconds of the game.
Action resumes next Thursday when the Bulldogs travel to Alva, Okla., to take on rival Northwestern Oklahoma State in the final conference match of the season.
