Friday was our final regular season home game and it was senior’s night. Sperl’s mom came prepared and filled the stands with pictures of each of the seniors’ faces on popsicle sticks. The game got off to a bit of a rocky start when Detroit nearly scored in the opening minutes. Mary slid in to clear a ball off the line and deny Detroit a goal. From there, we picked things up and took control of the game. In the 10th minute Apple opened the scoring. Helen played a ball in behind the Detroit defence which Hirsch won and played across the top of the box to Apple, who then finished on the ground far post. We scored another late in the first half to go into half time with a 2-0 lead. Helen played another good ball through, this time to Stern. Stern beat the keeper with a great finish in the far post. We locked the game up in the 55th minute when Apple scored her second goal. Sperl played a great ball in off of a corner kick and Apple was able to jump above her defender to head it in. The game ended with a 3-0 score and we secured at least a share of the Horizon League regular season title.
Saturday morning we had a training session and then left for Dayton for our game against Wright State on Sunday. We woke up Sunday and went for a team walk and stretch before breakfast and then headed over to the field. This was a big game. It was our final regular season game and an opportunity to claim the right to host the conference tournament. We held a majority of possession throughout the game but weren’t able to come back from a goal late in the first half. Wright State was able to score off a corner kick in the 41st minute. We outshot Wright State but just didn’t have that extra bit of something in the attacking third to get the goal we needed. With the loss, we share the regular season championship with Butler but they have the number one seed in the tournament and get to host.
Thanks to Jerry and Roadie’s mom for the treat bags on the bus ride home. We were able to eat our feelings after the loss and the glow sticks were put to good use in some quality team bonding. After the bonding and a good talk, we’re ready to put this last game behind us and focus on taking advantage of a clean slate that the conference tournament provides us. We have two weeks to put in some good, hard training and to prepare to make a statement in the tournament.
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