OSU basketball advances to Sweet 16-Ardmore downtown daily press

STILLWATER — With a heavy heart, football team of the Oklahoma State men went outside and handed over Oklahoma State Stillwater little joy in a dark day for OSU sports with a 1-0 victory over Illinois — after a moment of silence before the game the loss Kurt Budke and Miranda Chairman — in the second round of the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship.

"Taking into account what happened today, will always be very difficult for girls in focus and motivation may be, as we normally» OSU football coach Colin Carmichael said. "But I thought our team showed once again what kind of courage, what kind of desire and how hard it can be today and play with intensity.

“... We talked about our team before the game as a way to possibly a little happiness in the family OSU for only a short time. Coach (Mike) he met with our team before the game, and expressed the wish, and it seemed that Serna coaches and coaches wanted us to go Budke and win the game and perhaps only let people forget for a few minutes. There will be a time for us to grieve with everyone else, but we were just excited about getting out there and playing and if it helped those children for just a little while, to concentrate on the game for a while, that probably is really positive for us. "

OSU players banded together and wore shirt make-wrist bands made of athletic tape "Cowgirl family ', written on the memory of the Oklahoma State women's basketball coach.

"I saw come out when I was going to get ready for the game and gave hugs and said I will be there with them, the basketball team" OSU goalkeeper AD Franch said. "All of us to" Cowgirl "Family rewards for us. ... Deep down, there is a belief that is wrong with us and that is how I felt tonight. Each save I, as I had someone there with me. "

While weekend basketball games and wrestling women OSU postponed, Carmichael said the idea of delaying the tournament around a bone, but eventually decided to play.

"We discussed this morning after news broke about what to do and I think from the Office of the President of the Athletic Director, everybody agreed that the games should be played, because he was an NCAA tournament game and why not score Oklahoma State," said Carmichael. "We had three other groups here, as well as all other brackets would have made the postponement. So I think it was proper to be done. "

A member of the Football coaching staff, the loss of a favorite in aircrash is all very well. Assistant Coach Karen Hancock is his widow will Hancock, one of the 10 men associated with the OSU men's basketball program dies in a plane crash on 27 Jan. 2001. Hancock was the coach of the programme at the time of the death of her husband.

As for the game itself, Oklahoma State had to fight the Illini attack — aided by a night colder — during the first half. However, the Cowgirls were able to continue their way against the wind in the first half and finally broke the tie with a goal by Annika Niemeier — with support from Krista Lopez and Megan Marchesano — in the 25th minute.

"With coach owner comes and our discussions, I feel that a little more pressure on us because everyone looking at us with all the other games was cancelled," said Niemeier. "So I think this is a great goal."

The loss for the OSU family was also from two other groups in the City — Maryland and Auburn — the second and third round action.

"On behalf of our football program, we are terribly sorry for the loss suffered here in the State of Oklahoma," Maryland coach Brian Pensky apparatus said after his team 1-0 win over no. 3 seed Auburn. "Thoughts and our prayers are with the whole family cowboy".

The Cowgirls will face Maryland Sunday 13.00 to 16 sweet action in Cowgirl Soccer complex.

Boys Soccer: Mather advances to 2A final - Chicago Sun-Times

November 4, 2011 2:52PM The tried and true method of beating a Public League soccer team has always been to play a more physical style.

That won’t work against Mather. The Rangers proved that by knocking off defending state champion Peoria Notre Dame 3-0 in the Class 2A state semifinals Friday at Lincoln-Way North.

Mather (20-3-1) will attempt to become just the second Public League team in the 40-year history of the state tournament to win a state title on Saturday when it takes on Marmion or Chatham Glenwood, joining Harrison, which won the 1973 crown under a single-class system.

“We played today for the Public League and tomorrow we will represent the city of Chicago in the state final,” Mather coach Branko Cvijovic said. “The whole three million of Chicagoans are rooting for us, so we are pumped.”

Notre Dame (20-6), which had been seeking its third state title in four years, had a distinct size advantage and tried its best to intimidate the Rangers, but those efforts went for naught.

Mather grabbed a 1-0 lead just 44 seconds into the match when senior Qudus Lawal headed a cross from Hassan Ibrahim past diving Irish goalie Mitchell Auer for his 36th goal of the season.

“We practice that a lot,” said Lawal, who came to the United States last year from Nigeria. “I have to be in the front to flick it over. That was what I did.”

The Irish were held to only four shots and had just one good opportunity to equalize. That came at the 32:50 mark of the first half when Scotty Cicciarelli’s point-blank shot was stopped by Mather goalie Edwin Garcia.

The Rangers controlled much of the play after that despite being slowed by Notre Dame’s physical play, which was matched by Mather.

“We showed that we can play a physical game today,” Cvijovic said. “This was lacking in the past. We always had skills. The Public League teams could not keep up physically. This is just a testament that Public League teams can play.”

There was plenty of skill on display as well, as the Rangers finally broke down the Irish defense in the second half with some fine transition plays. Lawal and senior Steven Younus worked a nifty give-and-go in the box to produce the second goal, which Younus scored with 29:12 left in the second half.

Juan Mendez made it 3-0 with 11:52 remaining when he ran onto a cross from Chisom Ogbana and finished from 10 yards out. The final margin would have been greater if not for Auer, who stoned Lawal twice on breakaways.

“I must tell you that it is not about the physique,” Lawal said. “It’s about working hard, the way you can handle the ball and the way you win those 50/50 balls.”

The Rangers did that well throughout and as a result became the first Public League team to make the state title match since Schurz in 1977.

“We were faster than them,” Younus said. “They couldn’t stop us. We passed the ball and we opened the spaces. That’s why they were using physical play against us.

“I think we play as a team, we share the ball, we never play selfish. That’s what our coaches taught us.”

Girl's soccer: McLean advances to state final-Patch.com

NORWOOD – the girl of liberty District champion McLean Varsity football team (16-4-2), faced the Cardinals for our undefeated battleground state semifinal in Sweltering heat Friday afternoon at Westfield High School. Coach Rob Bouchard and craved his final victory, hoping to capture its first State Title McLean and add a plethora of banners more gym of the school.

After an exhausting and 75 minutes of scoreless play in 100-degree heat, all-met forward Melissa Downey took a direct high-kick and smoked hide draw tools post, left-over 90 to give McLean the victory 1-0, to advance to the State Championship game Saturday.

"I will just come out and practice 20 of them [shots each day] for fun," said Downey. "The heat was fatiguing. It was to ask to make many runs on this today. "

Players drank gallons of water to stay hydrated as severe temperature increased during the mid-afternoon. But since the second half, McLean used to heat and attacked the Cardinals steadily, shooting twice as many shots, as in the opening half. Downey, Andrea Romness and Kristina Bettner pushed the ball hard to field with the classic give-and-go passing barrier for defence of the battle.

"You just have to get used to the game and the heat," said Romness. "We were like a rotation of three individuals in midfield sub – be nice."

The battlefield became fatigued while the Highlanders ' substitution rotation, style and agility have overwhelmed the Cardinals, causing them to call several fouls late in the game, which would be expensive. 5: 49 Left in regulation, McLean was given a free kick near 27-yard-line and Downey displayed the net for a 1-0 victory.

"Kind of started the season a little rough and we do not believe this at all," said Bettner "and then coach told us ' you guys in the regional final, and was as Easy to use ' ... '"

McLean appeared with a group of owned and played like it was our undefeated unlike the Titans appeared drained. Elizabeth Overby and Brianna Nielsen led the Defense for Text2link the entire game, tackling and clearing all but a handful of battleground in the first half scoring opportunities. Overby launched many balls to Bettner at first but the timing was a little off, leaving a clear shot McLean without objective.  Without water breaks, both teams tired and slowed down the tempo until the players were allowed to hydrate themselves.

Resume the Highlanders enough to give then the power to become the first team this year to knock off the Titans and heads to the State final Saturday for a chance to write history.

"We knew [Battlefield] there was a great team and we said let's have all the experience the first loss against us," said Bouchard. "Come and get it [the target] there, expect one fulfilled all player as Melissa [Downey]. It is 1-0 game one way or another, I was feeling. "

McLean played in the State final against the winner of the game heritage vs. Cox at 1 pm on Saturday.

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