I am writing this on our bus ride back from Illinois State and I must admit I am a little depressed (you will find out why later) so here goes my blog. We started out this week with crazy weather that eventually led to our game being cancelled against Loyola this Wednesday. It was moved to Thursday but I happened to have a math exam right when we were suppose to leave so Dave Madsen drove me down a little later with Sammy. A special thanks to Dave for driving me and to the UWM athletic department for arranging this for me! So we got down to Loyola and they have been having a hard year but as with every Horizon League game each team gives us their best game. We came out and scored 2 early goals. The first goal was a rocket of a shot by Kelsey Holbert off a great pass from Apple. Then Apple scored off a pk when a defender took her down in the box. Apple is great at taking pk's and calmly put away this one. Then Kiki tucked a great shot in the bottom corner off a long shot. We went into half time up 3-0 and felt good about where we sat but a little disappointed that we didn’t hold more of the possession. The second half saw no score change and so the game ended 3-0. We were happy with the win but overall not happy with our performance. We gave away too many easy balls and just couldn’t get a rhythm going. On a happier note with Detroit losing we clinched the out right league title and home field advantage to host the Horizon League Tournament!!!
Now on to the reason that I am depressed, we traveled down to Illinois State on Saturday. We knew that they were going to be good and really come out hard. We started the game sluggishly and they jumped on us and eventually got a goal that really woke us up. We knew they were here to play and that if we wanted to win we would have to step it up. We came right back down and with in 2 minutes Krissy got a pass from Kelsey and beat her defender one v one and smashed home a shot. We knew we were back in this, and the half ended 1-1. We came out and I thought dominated most of the possession in the second half but couldn’t crack the goal. Then kind of against the run of play they got a second goal off a cross into the box. Again we had chances but just couldn’t finish. Then they were awarded a pk off an extremely controversial call. They called a hand ball in the box but Mary’s hand was at her side so we felt that it should have been ruled unintentional and when they scored off the pk, we were down 1-3 and there was about 10 mins left which is a pretty dire situation to be in. We keep pushing but couldn’t get anything and with that the game ended with us losing 1-3 and hence a depressing bus ride back. We really just felt that we could have played better and while give credit to Illinois State they are very good team and played well, I feel that if we played our best we would have won. This is only our second loss of the season so it hurts but we are going to learn from it and come back stronger than ever.
Overall not a great week for your Panthers but we did clinch the home field advantage and the league title which is two of our goals for the season. We play Green Bay on Friday at home it is SENIOR NIGHT (I am already crying) and our Pink out game at 7 p.m. So come on out and support your Panthers!!!!!
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