OU Welcomes ORU, UTSA to Norman

Oklahoma vs. Oral Roberts
Sept. 4 | 7 p.m. CT | Norman, Okla.

Oklahoma vs. UTSA
Sept. 6 | 12:30 p.m. CT | Norman, Okla.

Player to Watch
Liz Keester // Jr. // F With two goals this season, Keester is the Sooners' leading scorer. The Tulsa, Okla., native's first goal came in the 86th minute at No. 11 South Carolina and her second in the 75th minute in Sunday's home opener against Little Rock. Keester, who is in her first season at OU after transferring from Texas A&M, has fired six total shots, five of which have been on goal (.833 shot on goal percentage).

Player to Watch

Liz Keester // Jr. // F
With two goals this season, Keester is the Sooners' leading scorer. The Tulsa, Okla., native's first goal came in the 86th minute at No. 11 South Carolina and her second in the 75th minute in Sunday's home opener against Little Rock. Keester, who is in her first season at OU after transferring from Texas A&M, has fired six total shots, five of which have been on goal (.833 shot on goal percentage).

NORMAN — Coming off two straight wins, the Oklahoma soccer team will play a pair of home matches this weekend. The Sooners (2-2-0 overall) will welcome in-state foe Oral Roberts (2-0-1 overall) to John Crain Field at 7 p.m. CT on Friday before taking on UTSA (0-3-0 overall) at 12:30 p.m. CT on Sunday.

SOONER NOTEBOOK: WEEK THREE

1. HOME SWEET HOME
After playing just one of its first four games in Norman, Oklahoma returns to John Crain Field for its first full weekend of home action. The Sooners will take on in-state foe Oral Roberts on Friday night at 7 before facing UTSA at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday. In its lone home contest of the season, OU defeated Little Rock by a score of 4-0 on Sunday, Aug. 30.

2. SOONERS BOAST DEPTH
A total of 22 Sooners have made an appearance in at least one match this season, with 16 seeing action in all four contests. Seven players have scored OU's eight goals, with junior Liz Keester leading the way with two. Senior Laura Rayfield, junior Rachel Ressler, sophomore Rasha Roberts and freshmen Emily Parker, Marissa McMahand and Kaylee Dao have also notched scores for the Sooners in 2015.

3. BEDLAM STATEMENT
The Sooners started off the 2015-16 Bedlam competition with a bang, defeating in-state rival Oklahoma State 2-0 on Friday, Aug. 28, in a non-conference matchup in Stillwater, Okla. The victory marked the Sooners' fifth overall in the Bedlam series and first in Stillwater since Oct. 28, 2005. OU's goals came from a couple of freshmen in midfielder Kaylee Dao and forward Emily Parker. Dao's score came in just 18 seconds, marking the second-fastest goal in OU program history and the fifth in under a minute.

Here is a list of the five goals scored in under a minute by Sooners:
1. Oct. 10, 2010 – 00:11, Whitney Palmer against Kansas
2. Aug. 28, 2015 - 00:18, Kaylee Dao against Oklahoma State
3. Sept. 6, 2002 - 00:21, Shannon Wing against Drury
4. Sept. 10, 2006 - 00:26, Kady Kelly against Stephen F. Austin
5. Aug. 29, 2004 -00:54, Allyson Kucera against Saint Louis

4. WEEKEND SHUTOUT
Oklahoma goalkeepers Kassidie Stade and Kaitlyn Fahrner recorded shutouts against Oklahoma State and Little Rock, respectively. The back-to-back shutouts were the first for the Sooners since Oct. 3 and 5, 2014, when they did so at Texas Tech and Iowa State. Against Oklahoma State, Stade had a career-high seven saves.

5. FOLLOW IT LIVE
Thanks to Sooner Sports TV, powered by FOX Sports, fans can again watch all nine of OU's home matches live this year. Both of this weekend's contests will air on FOX Sports Oklahoma and FOX Sports Southwest Plus. Sunday's match against UTSA will also air live on Sports Talk 1400 radio.

SCOUTING REPORTS

ORAL ROBERTS
• Friday's match marks the 17th all-time meeting between OU and Oral Roberts. The Sooners lead 13-3 and have taken the last two matchups by scores of 1-0 (Sept. 26, 2014 in Norman; Sept. 13, 2013 in Norman).

• Ten Golden Eagles have scored 11 total goals this season, led by two goals from senior Ashley Martin.

• ORU freshman goalkeeper Ryliegh Bohnenstiehl was named the Summit League Defensive Player of the Week following her performance against SIU-Edwardsville in which she made nine saves in the second half and overtime periods in the team's 0-0 draw. Through their first three matches, the Golden Eagles have allowed just one goal.

UTSA
• Sunday's contest marks the first meeting all-time between UTSA and Oklahoma.

• The Roadrunners scored a season-high three goals against Abilene Christian. UTSA erased a 3-1 deficit, but its rally fell short as it dropped the contest, 5-3.

• Seniors Lauren Hodgdon and Savannah Struck and freshmen Sam Batley and Olivia Nicholls have all scored goals for the Roadrunners this season.

PROMOTIONS

Friday vs. Oral Roberts
$4 admission if you show your OU/Akron football ticket, balloon animals from 6-8 p.m., postgame autographs

Sunday vs. UTSA
Kids Club Day: face painting from noon-2 p.m., Kids Club members gift pickup, postgame autographs

SOONER NOTEBOOK: WEEK THREE

SCOUTING REPORTS

PROMOTIONS

Players Mentioned

Kaylee Dao

Kaitlyn Fahrner

Liz Keester

Marissa McMahand

Emily Parker

Laura Rayfield

Rachel Ressler

Rasha Roberts

Kassidie Stade

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