Halloween Finale

Oklahoma vs. Kansas
Oct. 31 | 7 p.m. | Norman, Okla.

Notes

Player to Watch
Abby Hodgen // Sr. // Yukon, Okla. Team co-captain Abby Hodgen will play the final regular season match of her career at John Crain Field on Friday night. The senior has never started fewer than 13 matches in a season for Oklahoma and owns 66 career starts as a midfielder at OU. Hodgen has posted one goal this season and leads the Sooners in shots with 32 total attempts.

SOONER NOTEBOOK: NOTES FOR WEEK 11

1. THE DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES
The Oklahoma soccer team's regular season finale will have a familiar flavor on Friday night. The Sooners are set to battle the Kansas Jayhawks in their final match before postseason play for the second year in a row. This year, the stakes have shifted: in 2013, the two teams squared off as the conference's eighth and ninth-place teams, with the final slot in the Big 12 Soccer Championship field up for grabs. This season, both squads have emerged as Big 12 contenders and have already locked up their spots in the tournament field.

2. FINDING MOMENTUM
With next week's conference tournament on the horizon, the Sooners will look to gain positive momentum to carry onward to Kansas City. OU will face a 14th-ranked KU squad that has dropped two of its last three matches, but regained footing last weekend with a 2-1 victory over Iowa State. Kansas can secure the No. 2 seed overall in the tournament with a win, while an Oklahoma victory would move the squad one step closer to a No. 6 seed.

3. TIGHTEN UP
OU's loss to West Virginia last week marked the first time all season the team has allowed more than two goals in a match. Oklahoma will look to get back to its defensive roots against Kansas on Friday night: following Oklahoma's first weekend of conference play, the squad had surrendered only nine matches in 13 total contests.

4. SPOOKY WIN
Friday night's contest marks Oklahoma's fifth Halloween match in program history. The Sooners last won on Oct. 31 in 1999, posting a 3-0 road victory over Arkansas. In regular season finales, the Sooners own a 7-9-2 mark all-time. Oklahoma's last win in a regular season finale came on Oct. 28, 2011 at Kansas, when the team picked up a 3-0 victory.

5. SUPER SENIORS
Friday's match will serve as Senior Night for OU, honoring seniors and key team members Emily Bowman, Abby Hodgen and Molly Richey. The trio has combined for over 150 career starts at Oklahoma, posting 26 total points and collecting 24 conference academic awards.