MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The No. 8-ranked West Virginia University women's soccer team concludes the weekend with a 2 p.m. kick against Oklahoma on Sunday, Oct. 8, at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.
The match will be broadcast on AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh regionally and FSN nationally. A link for live stats is available at WVUsports.com.
Sunday is the Mountaineers' annual Pink Match, and fans are encouraged to wear pink in support of breast cancer awareness. Additionally, WVU Medicine will have official pink shirts available inside the stadium for a minimum $10 donation. All donations benefit the breast cancer program at the WVU Cancer Institute.
The Mountaineers raised $8,813.32 for Morgantown's Betty Puskar Breast Care Center this year, and WVU has raised more than $130,000 for breast cancer research over the last 13 years.
Tickets for Sunday's match are $1 each and are on sale now at WVUGAME.com. Fans also can purchase tickets at the stadium ticket office. WVU students are admitted free with a valid WVU Student I.D.
To provide a safer environment for Mountaineer fans and to expedite entry into all ticketed WVU athletic events, the West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics enforces the NFL's Clear Bag Policy. The athletic department invites and encourages fans to visit WVUsports.com/clearbag for more information, to view pictures of permissible and non-permissible items and to obtain answers to frequently asked questions about the clear bag policy.
The Mountaineers (10-3, 3-1) and the Sooners (2-8-4, 0-1-3) meet for the eighth time Sunday. WVU owns a 6-0-1 series edge over OU, including two wins earned in 2016 – a 2-0 victory in Morgantown on Oct. 2, and a 2-0 win in the Big 12 Soccer Championship semifinal on Nov. 4, at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri.
WVU has not allowed an OU goal since the 2014 regular-season meeting, a 3-1 Mountaineer victory on Oct. 26, in Morgantown.
"OU is tough. Our swing is so difficult, this Friday-Sunday swing we've been doing," Mountaineer coach
Nikki Izzo-Brown said. "We know OU is another team who will cause all sorts of problems for us. But we have to recover, recover, recover to get ready for the Sooners."
The Mountaineers opened a five-match homestand at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium with a 1-0 victory over No. 19 Oklahoma State on Oct. 6. Senior defender
Amandine Pierre-Louis tallied the game-winner in the 29th minute. The outside back also helped the Mountaineer defense hold OSU to just seven shots, with only one each half landing on-frame. Sophomore
Rylee Foster made both saves for the team's second straight shutout against a Big 12 foe and eighth clean sheet of the season.
Friday's win pushed the Mountaineers home unbeaten streak against conference foes to 35, the third-longest active streak in the nation.
Foster shows a .680 goals-against average (GAA). Through 13 matches, she has doubled her career shutout total and now shows 16 career clean sheets.
Pierre-Louis and senior forward
Michaela Abam paces the Mountaineers with three goals each. Junior forward Sh'Nia Gordon shows a team-best nine points (2 G, 5 A).
Oklahoma recorded its third straight draw in Big 12 play with a 0-0 (2OT) tie at Iowa State on Oct. 6. ISU earned a 19-14 shot advantage, and both teams tallied four corner kicks. Freshman McKinley Crone made a career-high 10 saves for OU. The reigning Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week, she has held opponents scoreless for the last 331:57 minutes of play. OU finished with four shots on-goal.
Sophomore forward Kaylee Dao paces the Sooners with six points (3 G). Crone as played all 14 matches between the posts and has allowed 18 goals for a 1.20 GAA.