{"id":405360,"date":"2026-08-13T09:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405360\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T09:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:54:17","slug":"kats-earn-draw-with-oklahoma-state-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405360\/","title":{"rendered":"Kats earn draw with Oklahoma State in opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STILLWATER, Okla. \u2014 A stout defense and a timely goal powered Sam Houston to a 1-1 draw against Oklahoma State in the season opener Wednesday night at Neal Patterson Stadium.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Bearkats picked up where they left off defensively last season, making big plays to hold a relentless Cowgirl attack to one early goal in the 12th minute. Goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearkats.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/hannah-stipp\/11794\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11794\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Stipp<\/a> turned in a solid performance in her Bearkat debut, making seven saves while playing all 90 minutes to earn the draw.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSam Houston was limited in its scoring opportunities Wednesday but took full advantage of a foul by its Big 12 opponent late in the opening half.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gobearkats.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/ellie-morgan\/11788\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11788\" target=\"_blank\">Ellie Morgan<\/a> was pushed from behind while trying to receive a pass at the top of the box, setting up a free kick for the Bearkats. <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearkats.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/gabrielle-gipson\/11780\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11780\" target=\"_blank\">Gabrielle Gipson<\/a> lined the shot perfectly over the defensive wall and into the lower-right corner of the net to knot the match at 1-1 in the 39th minute.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSam Houston will hit the road again Sunday for a 7 p.m. match against Lamar in Beaumont.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STILLWATER, Okla. \u2014 A stout defense and a timely goal powered Sam Houston to a 1-1 draw against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-405360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405360","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=405360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}