Welfare Summer 2009 Day 9

Up and down roller coaster day.. but when all is said and done we got a result against Connecticut!!! huge result..

Day 9

Ok sooo this day started early.. if you havent noticed.. I am not doing well with mornings.. it is very tough sometimes to stay motivated.. anyhow .. up at 5:40 .. bfast.. packed.. checked out of the hotel.. caught a ride to the field with some parents.. You can already tell its going to be a brutally hot day.. (Side Note - I applied sun screen like 5 times in six hours, if you didnt know I had skin cancer)

Soo first up is Eastern New York South... well for the 1st 15 minutes we definitely showed up and played like we were supposed to.. We grabbed a 1-0 lead on a sick header off of a free kick.. we nuetralized them in the back and the were able to quickly switch the point of attack, which did wonders in allowing the girls to take advantage of the wide open flanks.. However it was short lived.. as we quickly lost the lead and went into halftime down 3-1... 2nd half wasnt much better as we ended up losing 8-1

soo after a few hours of laying out in the sun waiting.. it was time for the last game of the weekend.. The Connecticut A squad.. A team that lost to New Jersey 3-0 and ENY South 3-1 .. soo we weren't overly optimistic.. However, you could tell right after kickoff that this was a different group that showed up to play...

However, it didn't take long for the lack of defensive experience to show as we gave up goal about 6 minutes in... basically a long ball from the Goal kick over the mids heads .. one bounce to a streaking player that out ran the back four .. not a good goal to allow..

we battled throughout the first half.. and did a good job a sticking out the bad spells..

the 2nd half was much of the same we battled, but just couldnt finish.... Finally with about 8 minutes to go the soccer gods answered.. another goal of a corner kick.. and we drew 1-1.. A fantastic result as we got one of only three points total for WV ODP.. this was big.. what a great group of girls...

Then game the fun stuff... another 6 hour drive back to my car.. with noooo sleep... (I wasnt able to sleep because our driver would smack me ever 10 minutes or soo to make sure I stayed awake.) Finally got home around 9:30.. brutal.. time to relax..




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