Game 10: Bishop Miege

26 April at STA on Senior Night vs. Miege (1-0)

Well, both Heying families and the Moss's put on one great senior night. What a spread, gift table, and video. And this event had to be moved up 2 hours because of the weather.  Just very nice. Here is the walk-in.

 

The game itself was, yet another, 1-0 win for the good guys.  Team defense keeps chugging along, as we added a 9th shutout to the stat sheet. 

Now on the stat sheet it seems as if we should score a few more goals. We did generate 10 corners for the match, scoring on none of them. I will say the Miege keeper did make some nice saves, a couple on corner kicks.

And from the field I thought we were really good early. Klanke dropped two or 3 balls on the back post, but for whatever reason, we just could not get the post framed. But again Miege is well organized in the back, and they are difficult to break down. 

And we did create a scary moment or two in the back, one where they had a great opportunity to finish a ball but missed wide.

It is no wonder Miege had gone undefeated in the EKL before tonight.

It was cool to see Colling out there on the kickoff at right back; granted on crutches, but still just for a moment to recognize her great career that has been cut short with her ACL/MCL injury. We also got Sesti in there on the kickoff as well, and she will be back, but for now she is concussed.

Meg Loughman just missed a goal tonight,  with Liz Miller getting a couple of nice opportunities on the back post and Stomp giving us great minutes at defensive center midfield and even a little regular center midfield. Addie did a nice job as well. So we got some nice contributions from our senior class in this win, even if a couple of them were just out there briefly on the kickoff. Watch the first 10 minutes with all of the seniors in together—probably our best 10 minutes of the match. Here it is.

But obviously the highlight of the night was the game-winning goal by Mallory Heying that came off a Klanke checkdown where she finishes the up-back to Itsy who puts on a nice stepover to put herself in position to reverse the field to Mallory who comes from right back into the front third to launch a beautiful bending shot with her left to the back post, upper 90. BWhite named Mallory the BWhite Player of the Game. And why wouldn't you?

We are now off to Iowa for the National Tournament. 


Saints move to 7-2-1.

STATS:

First Half:

Saints: Shots: 10 (6) (Pigott 2, Denning, M. Herying, Romme, Klanke 2, Loughman, Golubski, Stompoly) Corners: 3 (Klanke 2, Romme 1)

Stags: Shots: 1 (0) Corners: 2

Second Half:

Saints: Shots: 6 (4) (Pigott, M. Heying 2, Klanke, Loughman, Romme) Corners: 7 (M. Heying, Klanke 2, Bryson, Loughman, Golubski, K. Heying)

Stags: Shots: 2 (1) Corners: 1

27:47 M. Heying (McCormick nicely continues the weakside ball rotation)