No. 18/13 Texas Tech thumps Oklahoma State, 4-0

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No. 18/13 Texas Tech thumps Oklahoma State, 4-0

October 03, 2025 | Women's Soccer

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The Red Raiders used a pair of goals in each half to cruise to the most-lopsided Big 12 win since a 7-0 win over OU (Sept. 23. 2021)

By: Andrew Stern

LUBBOCK, Texas – Four different players found the back of the net including sophomore Millie Elwood who tallied her first career goal as No. 18/13 Texas Tech Soccer rolled to a decisive 4-0 win over Oklahoma State Thursday night at an electric John Walker Soccer Complex.

In maybe the most physical match of the season, Texas Tech (9-1-1, 3-0-1 Big 12) rolled to its most-lopsided Big 12 win since Sept. 23, 2021 when the Red Raiders defeated Oklahoma, 7-0.

Despite being held to just one corner on the night (Tech entered the match averaging seven corners per game) the Red Raiders outshot shorthanded Oklahoma State (4-6-2, 0-3-1 Big 12) 20-3 to record their third-straight win over the Cowgirls in the rivalry.

With the other results around the league, mainly Colorado's 3-1 victory over No. 7 TCU in Fort Worth, the Red Raiders leapfrogged the Horned Frogs into a tie with CU for first place atop the Big 12 standings. The Red Raiders and Buffs sit on 10 total points, while the Horned Frogs and Baylor sit on nine.

After OSU nearly went out in front 1-0 when a Sonora De Fini shot rang off the cross bar, the Red Raiders regrouped and continued to push forward in search of the matches first goal.

Despite good chances from Kate Leibel and Kylie Bahr in the 14th and 16th minutes, the dam finally broke just four seconds into the 26th minute when Kate Liebel played Peyton Parsons who after juking out a defender opened her hips and ripped a left-footed shot past OSUs Logan Marks. The goal, Parson's 16th-career and third in the last four, gave the Red Raiders a 1-0 lead.

Just a matter of moments later, in the 32nd minute, the Red Raiders doubled their lead when a foul just outside the 18-yard box turned into a dangerous free kick opportunity. Stepping up to the ball, former All-American Sam Courtwright delivered a perfect shot that after being saved by Marks found Blackburn who ripped her third goal of the season. The assist for Courtwright was the first of two helpers she would tally on the night.

The two goals gave the Red Raiders a 2-0 lead into the break.

Following the halftime break, Tech continued to push forward in search of its third goal. The strike nearly came in the form of a Taylor Zdrojewski shot in the 54th minute beat Marks before clanging off the right post.

Like any good and big-time goal scorer would, Zdrojewski had a short memory however, as the striker in the 57th minute buried her eighth goal of the season and first since the Red Raiders 2-0 win over New Mexico State back on Sept. 4 (a span of four matches without a goal).

The strike came after a pair of beautiful passes from Courtwright and junior Storie Sexton who earned her first point of the 2025 season.

Armed with the three-goal lead, the Red Raiders remained hungry for more and continued to push forward.

In the 69th minute off its lone corner kick of the night, Oklahoma State nearly scored when a header from De Fini was stopped by goalkeeper Faith Nguyen for the lone stop of the night in her 16th career clean sheet. Nguyen now has allowed just two goals over her last seven matches since the Red Raiders lone setback of the season at San Francisco.

Looking to rest its starters for the key match on Sunday against Kansas, the Red Raiders turned to the bench and its gamechangers or reserves. Amongst that group was Elwood who won a second ball from a Cowgirl defender and sliced through the OSU backline for her first career goal.

With the 84th minute fourth goal behind them, the Red Raiders cruised to the finish line recording the programs ninth victory of the 2025 season and 19th Big 12 win over the last 23 matches (19-1-3).

By scoring multiple goals, the Red Raiders also improve to 42-0-1 when scoring at least twice in a match since the start of the 2022 season and to 51-2-1 when scoring twice in a match since 2021.

HEAD COACH TOM STONE:
"I think tonight, start-to-finish we were a 90-minute team tonight. We got off script a bit at the end of the first half, wanting to force things a bit, but over the course of the game we were on top of it and doing all the things we hoped we could do. But we also have to be fair to Oklahoma State because they are missing quite a lot of players both inside the starting lineup and on the bench. It's hard for me to remember a team that banged up. That doesn't change the fact that we needed to win the game or that Colin and Justin are really smart coaches and they were going to make it hard. They put a lot of people behind the ball but we prepared for that for two days. We don't usually do two days of prep for another team but we thought they would sit back deep and they did. And we just had to break our way through. There were a lot of players to get through. So on the one hand I feel really bad for those guys because they're beat up right now but it doesn't change the fact that someone had to win tonight and we are glad it was us."

On the continuity the roster continues to form:
"I think there's a bit of the group learning how to play together but there's also a lot of players who are coming back into their own and finding the ball and being really smart with it. Our ball security was excellent tonight, and Sam and Peyton have been key for us in that area for us for the last couple of year. If they're on their game and we're holding the ball that far up the field it sets in motion overlaps from the outside backs, holding mids joining the attack and forwards can check and run. All of the fun things you want to do and can't do if you're not holding it with your attacking mids. Sam and Peyton have been great and we've been playing through them the last two games which has been fun to watch."

UP NEXT:
The Red Raiders will look to again win the weekend when they get a rematch with No. 21 Kansas who knocked Tech out of the Big 12 Tournament a season ago. First touch from Walker is set for 1 p.m.