By Oaklee Fielder, Sports Editor
The NWOSU soccer team had two games played last week. One on Sep 17 and one on Saturday. The first game was against the Newman University Jets, and the second game was against the New Mexico Highlands University Cowgirls.
Game 1
NWOSU 2-1 Newman
The Lady Rangers started with Alexa Flores in goal. The first goal did not come late. After a corner kick, Christi-Anne Mills went for goal and scored. Katy Jo Werner was credited with the assist.
Later on in the first half, the Jets responded in the 29th minute. The rest of the first half continued with no goals scored.
The second half started slower compared to the first half. It went by with no goals scored for the starting portion of the half. In the 60th minute, there was a yellow card on the NWOSU team. Two minutes later, a yellow card was displayed for a Newman University player.
Just one minute later, a yellow card was given to Cassidy Fitzgerald. After the yellow card was shown to many, the game continued on. With 20 minutes left to play, Christi-Anne Mills scored again, giving the Lady Rangers the lead in the late stages of the game. With pressure on, Newman University had to find momentum somewhere to tie the game.
Unfortunately, their play began to turn sloppy, and they had four fouls in six minutes. They gave one last charge in the final minutes, but Flores stopped the final shot, and NWOSU won the game against Newman University.
Christi-Anne Mills had a total of five shots and four shots on goal against Newman. She also scored the two goals for the Lady Rangers. Flores had five saves throughout the game.
Game 2
N. M. Highlands 0-2 NWOSU
Taylor Annen was put into the goalkeeper position for NWOSU. Northwestern started aggressively, getting four shots in the first 13 minutes.
In the 18th minute, Werner scored the first goal of the game, the assist was by Christi-Anne Mills. Later in the 37th minute, Luana San Miguel scored a goal for Northwestern. Kamalei Kealoha was credited with the assist.
The second half went by smoothly for the Lady Rangers. No goals were scored by the Cowgirls.
San Miguel had three shots and one shot on goal. Christi-Anne Mills and Jazelle Alvarado had two shots each. Taylor Annen had three saves in the game against NMHU.
The Lady Rangers’ next games are against Oklahoma Baptist University on Wednesday and Southern Nazarene University on Saturday. Both games will be away. The game against OBU was supposed to be a home game, but due to inclement weather, the game was moved to Shawnee, the home of the Oklahoma Baptist University Bison.
The Lady Rangers continue to be undefeated in the 2025 season, with their record being boosted to 5-0-1 after the two wins against Newman University and NMHU.
There seems to be good air around the Lady Ranger soccer team, the change in coaching staff could be the reason.
This is head coach Carla Briscoe’s first year as NWOSU’s head coach. Whatever changes that she has made seems to be doing NWOSU well.