SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist faces Harding Saturday at 11 a.m. in an important Great American Conference road game in Searcy, Arkansas.
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The Lady Bison are 7-0 in the GAC after a 1-0 win at Ouachita Baptist Thursday while Harding enters at 5-2, coming off of a 3-1 win over Southern Nazarene.
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OBU scored a 2-1 win over Harding in Shawnee last month with goals by
Emmily Infante and
Kerregan Edwards. Bethany Sutherland scored HU's goal.
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Ruth King leads OBU with 21 points on nine goals and three assists while Edwards has 11 points, including four goals.
Hannah White leads the team with four assists.
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Emily Griffith allows a conference-best 1.07 goals per game and the Lady Bison have registered three consecutive shutouts and have blanked opponents in four of the last five matches, allowing one goal in that span and just three goals in seven conference games.
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Sutherland leads Harding with 19 points on seven goals and five assists while Emma Welch has five goals, two assists and 12 points. Jessica Woessner has a 1.90 goals-against average with 35 saves.
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