Team 180 '10 Saturday Update- Whitney Luckett [ 7/15/2007 - 00:41 ] # What a day it’s been for Team 180. At breakfast we learned that ’09 was down 2 players to 13 because of illness. We made our way to the fields and arrived early enough to see the final game for the ’08 girls. It looks as though several 180 girls have made division one schools – a big credit to Sam & the program our girls are in.
Our first match of the day was vs. a MD team, Green Turtles with Alexa coaching. The MD team came out fairly strong and we were a bit taken aback. They scored 2 goals right away while we found our legs again. The 25 minutes total time format was pretty new to us all, but we figured it out and the game ended 3 – 4. We definitely rallied in the end.
Our schedule over the course of the day was VERY spread out – so the girls had lots of down time between games. The weather was pretty hot and humid – though not devastatingly so. Sam needed to steal 2 players to help out on the ’09 team, so Annie & Chapin were gone for our last 2 games. Our second game was against CT Lax Futures. The girls played excellent defense and spread the scoring out. We finished the game out 7:2.
We had almost 3 ½ hours to wait for our last game at 7:00PM. The good thing was that a breeze blew up. We played Westchester Elite 2 (NY). The final score there was 3:3, but in this novice’s opinion, we should have won the game. The ball seemed to have a will of it’s own and was jumping out of sticks right and left. Other than that, we played pretty well and the girls had a great first day.
Kent Island is not a high tech haven. There are no Starbucks to log in at - so it will probably be another late update tomorrow. The girls games are much closer together tomorrow, so we'll be able to get a rhythm and keep to it. Hope things are well back home.
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