TULSA, Okla. \u2013 Lamar Batista scored the only goal in first-half stoppage time as FC Tulsa took a 1-0 win against El Paso Locomotive FC at ONEOK Field on Saturday night to move the Scissortails back into the top four in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n
Both sides threatened in the early going as Tulsa\u2019s Lucas Stauffer sent a looping header over the crossbar before El Paso\u2019s Amando Moreno fired just wide of the left post from distance. The Scissortails took the lead just as the game ticked into first-half stoppage time, though, as Batista arrived on time to turn home a free kick by Jamie Webber delivered to the top of the six-yard area.<\/p>\n
Tulsa\u2019s Bailey Sparks went close to doubling his side\u2019s lead with a long-range effort early in the second half before moments later ringing the crossbar with a shot from 12 yards out. Despite another opportunity for Moreno that was denied by Scissortails goalkeeper Dane Jacomen midway through the second half, though, the visitors were unable to seriously threaten an equalizer, recording only one shot on target overall as Tulsa held firm for victory.<\/p>\n
Takeaways<\/p>\n
FC Tulsa \u2013 The Scissortails bounced back into the win column in league play with a result that had positive moments despite producing limited chances overall. Lamar Batista\u2019s winner off a beautiful delivery from Jamie Webber\u2019s set piece proved the difference, but as important for the reigning Western Conference titleholders will be the shutout, the side\u2019s fifth in its last nine games across all competitions after its disappointing display in Birmingham in the Prinx Tires USL Cup last time out.<\/p>\n
El Paso Locomotive FC \u2013 The visitors struggled in the attacking third again, suffering its third loss in the past four games across all competitions while recording only one shot on target out of 10 efforts overall. Locomotive has been better away from home overall this season, but that form didn\u2019t measure up here as the side prepares for a key stretch of three home games in the next four outings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TULSA, Okla. \u2013 Lamar Batista scored the only goal in first-half stoppage time as FC Tulsa took a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,223],"class_list":["post-378399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}