Women's Soccer Completes Spring Exhibition Season
May 8, 2012
CORVALLIS, Ore. - The Oregon State women's soccer team completed its seven-game spring exhibition schedule on this past weekend as the Beavers closed the season with the Vancouver Whitecaps.
“The spring for us this year, we got a lot out of it,” head coach Linus Rhode said. “We had to see how we were going to come together after losing six seniors.”
Oregon State hosted a total of four home games during the spring season, which all took place on the intermural fields adjacent to Gill Coliseum due to upgrades being made to Paul Lorenz Field. They faced-off against two Pac-12 teams and a women’s professional team, along with four other teams from the northwest.
The Beavers opened up their spring schedule with a doubleheader on April 14 with a game against the University of Oregon and a game against Trinity Western.
“I thought that the group after the first weekend really started to come together and we started figuring out as a staff and a team some of the things that we needed to work on,” Rhode said.
On April 21, they headed to Portland, Ore. to take on in-state rival the Portland Pilots. The following weekend they returned home to take on Humboldt State and Southern Oregon on April 28.
Oregon State then traveled to Seattle, Wash. to face-off against Pac-12 rival the University of Washington on May 5. The Beavers closed out their spring season with a match against the W-League Vancouver Whitecaps in Bellevue, Wash. on May 6.
“I think after the spring I can have a good idea of where we are as a group,” Rhode said. “I feel like I can see what our strengths are and what some of our weaknesses may be coming into the fall camp. Everyone has had plenty of opportunities to play and to show the staff what they are capable of doing.
I think now moving forward, because we are done with the girls till pre-season camp, it is important that the girls stay focused in what they need to do. A lot of them will go on to play this summer in the W-League or the WPSL, so most of them at this point will be playing this summer, which is good to keep their soccer fitness up.”
