Bison Split with John Brown

Article Date

October 25, 2005

Oklahoma Baptist University's Lady Bison dropped their shot at their first Sooner Athletic Conference soccer championship Tuesday before the men's squad salvaged a split in a doubleheader with visiting John Brown.

The Lady Bison, with a win, would have forged a three-way tie atop the SAC standings and would have had the tiebreaker on both John Brown and Oklahoma City. However, with the 2-0 victory over OBU, John Brown claimed sole possession of the 2005 regular season title.

The Bison won the men's game 3-0 to seal second place in the SAC standings.

The SAC Tournament begins at home sites of the upper-seeded teams this weekend. The Lady Bison will host a game at 2 p.m. Friday and the Bison will play at home at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

OBU's men scored the only goal in the first half on a Pablo Campos penalty kick in the 23rd minute after being dragged down from behind in the box.

The score remained 1-0 until the 87th minute when Cesar Silva knocked home a goal off a feed from Marcos Silva. The Bison picked up some Longo rating points with 2:18 left in the game as Adauto Oliveira scored with assists from Campos and Marcos Silva.

Joao Acedo picked up the shut-out victory with six saves. It was his sixth shut-out of the season.

The Lady Bison fell behind 1-0 on a goal from Kendra Rehner with an assist from Nikki Ganter in the 38th minute.

OBU missed a chance to tie late in the first half when Hilary Hendrickson's shot bounced off the left post and off the mark.

Ganter scored in the 49th minute with a double assist from Stacie and Sharon Burley.