Game 9: PinkOUT vs. St. James

22 April vs. St. James in PINKOUT (0-0, 2 OT's)

St. James did Pinkout up pretty darn well: as you entered you could get up and personal with one healing chair, its founder, and their whole story (what a great charity they lined up); enjoy a photo booth; take on some face painting; or/and load up your plate from a free tailgate.

Each of our girls walked out with a young soccer player who had helped The Healing Chair as well. Mrs. Gress was on hand for her photos of all of the opening hoopla. Very nice. Check it out!

And the game offered up much entertainment. The first half was a pretty even match with St. James getting a couple of offensive thrusts just before half (Check them out!) that must not have sat well with the girls. We played much better in the second half. 

Yes, in the second half I would say we had the better of play, but really were only dangerous a couple of times; James also had a couple of chances where a better shot might have produced a goal.

And then in both overtimes, we unleashed an offensive attack that bodes well for next week. Miller did come up with a couple of nice saves off Golubski rips, but more than not the crossbar saved a few or we just flat out missed or chose the wrong surface to strike the ball with. The lopsided shot totals for the game really come just from the overtimes. Shots and shots on goal were about the same for the game without the OT's.

Thornhill does seem to be a special player. She pretty much is involved in anything St. James sends toward the goal.  So, when BWhite names Bridget Linder the BWhite Player of the Match, he is acknowledging someone who limited her specifically. Linder did that, and she got us forward and only missed the minutes it took for her to wait for reentry after she had to leave the field 2-3 times because she had cramped up from playing so many great minutes.

As I mentioned Miller made a couple of very nice saves, but Calvert also continues to play as well in goal as I have to believe any girl in the area is playing. Her stats are just crazy: a goals-against of .116 with 8 shutouts in 9 games. Now, yes, that is also a magnificent compliment to our defenders and our whole team defense, but we all see the type of saves she makes, her fearlessness through all set pieces, and her instincts and game-reads that move her out of the boxes at just the right level and time. 

Next week will be fun and tough as we bring Miege in for Senior Night on Tuesday. The weekend offers up the National Tournament in Iowa. As much as we would have loved to have more a full compliment for next week, we are not going to have any of our 3 concussions (Galley, Sesti and Woltering) or a day of Golubski, but we should get Mallory back, and that will help us. 

STATS:

First Half:

Saints: Shots: 2 (1) (Golubski, Klanke) Corners: 2 (Klanke)

Thunder: Shots: 3 (2) Corners: 0

Second Half and Overtimes

Saints: Shots: 14 (5) (Klanke 2, Pigott 3, Denning 2, Golubski 5, K. Heying, Chalabi) Corners: 3 (Golubski, Heying, Klanke) 

Check out some Saints offense: Here

Thunder: Shots: 5 (3) Corners: 3