Lady Eagles to host Oklahoma State in soccer scrimmage

Carley Cave and the Oklahoma Christian Lady Eagles will host NCAA Division I power Oklahoma State on March 3 in a scrimmage.

OKLAHOMA CITY (Feb. 1, 2012) – One of the elite teams in women’s college soccer will visit Oklahoma Christian next month to face the Lady Eagles in a scrimmage, OC coach Randall Robison said Wednesday.

OC will host Oklahoma State – which has reached the NCAA Division I quarterfinals each of the past two seasons – in the scrimmage at 4 p.m. on March 3. OSU will scrimmage at NCAA Division II Central Oklahoma in Edmond that morning and wanted to have another scrimmage later in the day, Robison said.

Robison and OSU coach Colin Carmichael became friends during Robison’s time as an assistant coach with Oklahoma’s women’s program and the two agreed it would be good for the Cowgirls to scrimmage the Lady Eagles, who play in the NAIA.

“It doesn’t count for anything on either side,” Robison said. “From our standpoint, this is an exciting event to have them on campus. It’s something I hope we can do every year, if our program grows to the point we can do that.”

The Cowgirls went 22-2-2 last fall, losing 2-1 to eventual national champion Stanford in the NCAA tournament. OC went 6-10-2 last season, finishing ninth in the Sooner Athletic Conference.

OSU will be without two of its top players, goalkeepers AD Franch and Rosa Medina, during the spring. Franch, a two-time NCAA All-American, will be competing for the U.S. under-23 national team while Medina is a member of Mexico’s national team.

OC has one other confirmed scrimmage during the spring, on Feb. 25 at Central Oklahoma, and Robison said he is finalizing two more scrimmage dates.

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