Saints Visit Timberwolves

 

Game 7:  (6-0-1); EKL (3-0-1)
13 April vs. Blue Valley Southwest (2-2, 2 OT's)




We took on undefeated Blue Valley Southwest (7-0-0) in our first match of three without our leading scorer, Sydney Watts. 

Coach Brown simply moved Marn to the "9," adding Holton wide for her—so just a minor tweak to our normal starting lineup.

The Saints played against a bit of the wind first half, and somehow we exited the half tied at zero. The first half stats told a much different story as Southwest dominated the half pretty badly.

But the Saints played with so much more energy and urgency in the second half, and through two overtimes, as well.  Statistically we were not great, but we came much closer to 50/50 possession time with Southwest, and we were just gutsy. 

We scored two great goals, and the second one came with us down 2-1 with only 17 seconds left in the match. That's the definition of clutch. Cabantac lifted a great free kick that hooked towards goal as Mia held that back post eventually to knock it in.

The O'Keefe to Marn goal was just beautiful. It came on an inverted t-ball to the back post where Brooklyn knocked it in—she just made one heck of an effort to get there.

And both Alexis and Jane just did a great job in that second half preventing opportunities. But our energy and spirit to compete were fun to watch all second half and throughout the overtimes. 

Claire Hesser got some big-time varsity minutes in that overtime tonight.

We are back in action tomorrow night at home against Ursuline out of St. Louis. They just knocked off St. Dominic's, 2-0 last week—so obviously we will have our hands full. 

STATS:

First Half:

Saints: Shots: 1 (0) Corners: 1 (Holton)

Timberwolves: Shots: 11 (6) Corners: 3

Second Half:

Saints: Shots: 3 (2) Corners: 1 (Hansen)

27:33 Marn (Maggie hits the diagonal ground pass to the back post) (Veo not so good on this one)

0:17 Sandvig (Cabantac bends the long free kick to the mid-post where O’Keefe knocks it forward for a Mia finish)

Timberwolves: Shots: 6 (3)

32:33 Kim (Palmer pushes it through)



Overtime

Saints: 1 (1) Corner: (Sandvig)

Timberwolves: Shots: 3 (2) Corners: 1

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