SHAWNEE – Coming off their first win of 2024, the Oklahoma Baptist Bison soccer team will look to build off that when No. 4-ranked Central Missouri comes to Shawnee on Sept. 21. Kickoff is slated for 12 p.m. at the OBU Soccer Complex.
UCM came into the week ranked fourth by the United Soccer Coaches but most recently fell to No. 16 Dallas Baptist on Sept. 19. That 1-0 defeat moved the Jennies record to 3-2.
As for the green and gold, their 3-2 comeback win over Rogers State boosted the team's overall mark to 1-3.
Saturday's matchup with the Jennies will be the third all-time meeting, all in the D2 era. UCM has won both of the previous contests in 2021 and 2022.
As we get closer to match time, here are notes on both teams, starting first with OBU.
- OBU had three different goal-scorers the other night against Rogers State: seniors Olivia Kenas and Alanna Bloomingdale as well junior Emma Teague.
- For Bloomingdale, she provided the game-winning goal, her fourth of her career in that category as well as 11th overall.
- As for Teague, her four shots on-goal this fall are tops on OBU and ranks top-six in the conference.
- Plus, Krissy Fulton and Ashley Bell, both juniors, registered assists in the contest. For Bell, it was her first career assist.
- Freshman goalie Claire Stoermer has the third-best save percentage in the GAC at .731.
- Stoermer has recorded at least three saves, with a season-high 10, in all previous matches (4).
UCM Notes
- Redshirt senior Caroline Cole leads the Jennies with nine points. She has scored four goals with one assist. In her career at UCM, she has tallied 24 goals, 10 game-winners and 67 points.
- In goal is Kristen Wright. Over the past two seasons, she's notched 17 wins, 10 shutouts and produced a 0.54 goals against average.
- Four different players have provided assists for UCM so far: Cole, Izzy Joyce, Gracie Knight and Aspen Patterson.
- During the Jennies' first two matches of the season, the team scored four times each against Augustana (SD) and Illinois Springfield.
- Under head coach Lewis Theobald, the Jennies program has made 13 consecutive NCAA Tournaments.
