Reganne Morris (#17 in white and orange was the spark plug for a strong Oklahoma State Cowgirls victory – by a score of 3-1 — over Southern Methodist University in April.
Photo Credit: Oklahoma State University Women’s Soccer website
Oklahoma State Goalie Grace Gordon had a great fall season in Big 12 Conference play. Here she is pictured during the conference championship tournament last fall, making one of her patented leaping saves against the OU Sooners. The Lady Sooners won that particular day, but in women’s soccer, at least, the Bedlam Rivalry continues this fall 2024 season.
Photo by Liz Parke, Oklahoma State University Women’s Soccer website.
Reganne Morris (#17 in white and orange was the spark plug for a strong Oklahoma State Cowgirls victory – by a score of 3-1 — over Southern Methodist University in April.
Photo Credit: Oklahoma State University Women’s Soccer website
Stillwater, Oklahoma – The Oklahoma State Cowgirls soccer team will play 12 home matches during the 2024 season, with 11 Big 12 Conference contests, six at Neal Patterson Stadium, also on the docket.
Of OSU’s 19 opponents in 2024, 12 of those finished in the top 125 of the NCAA RPI in 2023, including eight in the top 100.
The Cowgirls are coming off a 12-8-0 season in 2023, which included a 5-5-0 mark and seventh place finish in the Big 12 standings.
The Cowgirls return nine starters from that squad, including All-Big 12 midfielder Xcaret Pineda, leading goal scorer Logan Heausler and goalie Grace Gordon, who posted six shutouts a year ago.
The Cowgirls open 2024 with a preseason exhibition match at home against the TulsaGolden Hurricane on August 9 before kicking off the regular season with a road test Aug. 15 at Nebraska.
The Cornhuskers were an NCAA quarterfinalist last year.
OSU’s home opener is scheduled for Aug. 18 against Oral Roberts at Neal Patterson Stadium.
The Cowgirls will also host Bedlam-rival Oklahoma (Aug. 22), Texas State (Sept. 5), ULM (Sept. 8) and Texas A&M-Commerce (Sept. 15) in non-conference play.
Along with the season opener, OSU’s non-conference road matches include Central Arkansas (Aug. 25) and San Diego State (Aug. 31).
The Cowgirls open Big 12 play on the road, taking on Baylor on September 12. OSU will also travel to Brigham Young University (Sept. 26), Utah (Sept. 29), Kansas (October 5) and the University of Central Florida (Oct. 20) in league action.
OSU’s Big 12 home opener comes Sept. 19 when it takes on Colorado prior to facing Texas Tech later that weekend at Neal Patterson Stadium. In other conference home matches, the Cowgirls will welcome Houston (Oct. 10), Cincinnati (Oct. 13), Iowa State(Oct. 17) and Texas Christian University (Oct. 25) to Stillwater, with the match against the Horned Frogs marking the regular season finale.
The Big 12 Soccer Championship will return to Kansas City this season and will be played at the new CPKC Stadium, home of the National Women’s Soccer League’s Kansas City Current. The conference’s top 12 teams will qualify for the tourney, which will be held Oct. 30-Nov. 9.
The NCAA Women’s Soccer Championship begins Nov. 15 and concludes with the NCAA College Cup in Cary, North Carolina, Dec. 6 & 9.
(https://okstate.com/news/2024/4/16/cowgirl-soccer-releases-2024-schedule )
Undefeated Spring Soccer season lifts spirits for Cowgirls faithful
Oklahoma State Goalie Grace Gordon had a great fall season in Big 12 Conference play. Here she is pictured during the conference championship tournament last fall, making one of her patented leaping saves against the OU Sooners. The Lady Sooners won that particular day, but in women’s soccer, at least, the Bedlam Rivalry continues this fall 2024 season.
Photo by Liz Parke, Oklahoma State University Women’s Soccer website.
The Cowgirls finished the spring season with a 3-1 victory over Southern Methodist University back in April.
The win, capping off a 5-0 spring record, was a “brightener” after last fall’s regular season ended with an early exit in the Big 12 conference tournament.
OSU took control early. Laudan Wilson set up Reganne Morris for the Cowgirls’ first goal, and minutes later, Xcaret Pineda hit Lexi Lee in stride and Lee found the back of the net to make the score 2-0.
In the 32nd minute, Nicole Ray connected with Sami Allen, who converted her chance to push the lead to three.
Liz Eddy put the Mustangs on the board in the 60th minute, moving the score to 3-1.
Despite strong SMU attacks, Grace Gordon and Logan Marks held the Mustangs scoreless and combined for multiple saves. Caroline Dill replaced Gordon early in the second half, giving up one goal and recording one save.
OSU outscored its five spring opponents by a 19-4 margin. Seven different Cowgirls recorded goals, led by Pineda’s five.
https://okstate.com/news/2024/4/20/cowgirl-soccer-cowgirls-soccer-cruises-past-smu-in-spring-season-finale
Last Big 12 joust between OSU and OU went to the Sooners, but stay tuned …
OSU dropped a 1-0 match to Oklahoma in the opening round of the Big 12 Soccer Championship last fall at the Round Rock Multipurpose Complex.
The loss snapped OSU’s nine-game unbeaten streak against its Bedlam rival as the seventh-seeded Cowgirls concluded their season with a 12-8-0 record.
OSU is 31-10-5 all time against OU; the tenth tournament-seeded Sooners garnered their first win over OSU since 2018.
In a scoreless opening half, OSU outshot the Sooners by a 6-5 margin, but OU owned a 6-1 advantage in corner kicks.
Mollie Breiner kept OU off the scoreboard early, heading a shot by Cailey England out for a team save just 90 seconds into the match.
The Cowgirls had several scoring opportunities in the first half, but OU goalie Olivia Ramey made four saves, including three during a two-minute span, to help send the game to intermission scoreless.
The two teams continued battling for a goal in the second half, but the defenses held strong. A leaping save by Grace Gordon in the 57th minute kept the match scoreless as she tipped a shot by Emma Hawkins over the crossbar.
But the Sooners would finally break through with 14:52 remaining when Esalenna Galekhutle dribbled past a pair of defenders and delivered a shot from the top right of the 18-yard box into the net.
Gordon finished with five saves in the match, while Ramey tallied seven for the Sooners.
OU finished the match with a 12-11 edge in shots, while recording 11 corner kicks to three for the Cowgirls.
(https://okstate.com/news/2023/10/28/cowgirl-soccer-falls-to-ou-in-big-12-tourney )
Although the Lady Sooners will play in the SouthEast Conference (SEC) his year, the Bedlam rivalry will continue (in soccer and some other sports). On August 22, OSU and OU will be back at-in, in Stillwater.
NOTES: Patrick B. McGuigan, editor emeritus for CityNewsOKC and CityNewsTulsa, prepared this story for posting, accessing OSU athletic department stories and adapting past reporting.
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