SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist will wrap up the 2019 season with a road trip to St. Charles, Missouri, to take on No. 9-ranked Lindenwood on Saturday at 1 p.m.
It will be the final meeting between OBU and Lindenwood as members of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference as Lindenwood will move to the Great Lakes Valley Conference next season.
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OKLAHOMA BAPTIST WOMEN'S LACROSSE NOTES
Oklahoma Baptist (5-8, 1-7 RMAC) at No. 9 Lindenwood (14-1, 7-1 RMAC)
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SCOUTING THE LIONS
- After suffering their lone setback of the season, an 11-5T loss to then-No. 9 Regis at home, Lindenwood has won three straight in conference play
- The Lions are averaging 14.9 goals/game this season, paced by Carly Federowski and Hailey Gallant with 36 and 32 goals, respectively. Lindenwood has 10 players with at least 10 goals this season
- Gallant and Federowski have combined to assist on 34 goals this season. As a team, LU has assisted on 39.0 percent of their goals
- Lindenwood boasts one of the stingiest defenses in the country, giving up just 6.6 goals/game on 14.9 shots/game. Aly Smith has seen the majority of minutes in goal this season, posting a 43.7 save percentage
- Federowski and Morgan Reader lead the Lions with 48 and 43 ground balls
- The Lions own a plus-6.7 draw control/game advantage. Federowski has a team-high 60 draw controls
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OBU OUTLOOK
- The Lady Bison have dropped their last three RMAC contests this season, including a 17-6 decision to Colorado State-Pueblo on Thursday
- Lauren McCormack leads OBU with 53 points on 38 goals and 15 points. She's five points shy of tying the single-season points record set by Paige Morrison in 2015 with one game remaining
- As a team, OBU averages 10.8 goals/game. McCormack has a team-high 38, followed by 25 by Taylor Skomp and 18 by Madison Gordon
- After averaging 9.4 points/game across the previous two seasons, OBU is averaging 14.0 points in 2019. It's the first time since moving to Division II, and the second time ever in program history, that OBU has averaged at least that many points/game in a single season
- Defensively, the Lady Bison are allowing 13.9 goals/game and own a minus-3.1 scoring margin. Opponents are averaging 29.8 shots/game
- Three of OBU's defenders currently rank in the top 10 all-time in caused turnovers, led by Savannah Tompkins with 77 in her career with one game left to play. Katie Kuehn (34) and Monique Mossop (26) are the other two
- The Lady Bison rank second in Division II in ground balls/game, averaging 28.5. McCormack and Gordon continue to lead the team with 46 and 44, respectively
- After controlling 15 draws on Thursday against CSU-Pueblo, McCormack now leads the country in draw controls/game with an average of 11.5
