Defense pulls through!

So we won our game last night against Long Beach!  It was a tough game but we pulled off another shut out!! that is 290 minutes that we have gone without a goal on us so cross your fingers that we can continue this minute counter!! We won the game 1-0!! and guess who scored our goal!! our center back LAUREN PORTER!  A freshmen that just happens to be my roommate!! yay!! It was great to get one!  It was a header off a corner!! A great goal and exciting for her to get her first goal of the season!  I'm still waiting for my own! Hopefully i will get one soon!! But stay tuned for our next game's results vs. fullerton!!

FINALLY A WIN!!

So this past weekend was a pretty good one!! We had a home game friday night under the lights against UTAH STATE an instate rivlry so the team was amped and ready to play!  It started great simply by the fact that THE TEAM sang the national anthem because something went wrong with the computer and they couldn't get the recording to play...let me tell you that was quite the national anthem! haha...we played well and very aggresivly!  We had come off a tough weekend in oregon loosing one game 3-2 and one 1-0 in OT.  So we came out and won against UTAH STATE and got our first shutout!! YAY for the DEFENSE!!  We won the game 2-0.  Great to win at home in front of one of our biggest crowds ever!  We had about 1,500 out at the game, so that was a fun atmosphere!  

We had practice the next morning we did a light kick around and watched some video of the game the night before then got on the bus to the airport.  We flew to L.A. to go play LMU.  I got to go out to dinner with Hannah (one of my lovely roommates origionally from San Clemente) and her family to dinner.  We went to Riviera, a mexican place!! I was so happy!! I have been craving some good mexican and it hit the spot!  We went back to the hotel and got some rest for our game the next afternoon!  

We played LMU and held them scoreless.  We had a lot of opportunities!  In fact we outshot them 19-8! After the first half the shot count was 10-1 in our favor!! No complaining on the defenses part!!  But we went to 2OT with them and just could not get lucky with our chances...we had one they cleared off the line and one where our girl got taken down but no help from the Ref...We ended the game in a tie after 110 minutes of play!!  After the game most of the girls showered and headed to the airport...but not our van! We went to in and out :) and went to the beach instead of that whole thing they call showering!! I think it was a good choice!!

So the weekend ended up pretty good!  A win and a Tie! and Two shutouts in a row! Now we just have to gear up for a fun and busy weekend at home!  We have the recruits for next year coming to stay with us as well as my parents coming up and some big games that we need to win!  BUSY BUSY!! and i have a few papers to write!  I better get back to that!! ha

Friday's game

So last night was a tough loss 3-2. We played very good in the first half and had a tough second half and were under a lot of pressure.  We are now 1-4 and hopefully we can pull some wins off in or next few games.  Its been tough cause we have lost all of our games by 1 goal or in a few minutes of a breakdown we get scored on.  But yesterday we got to go into Oregon's training room to get pre-game treatments...I took pictures...It was absolutely incredible.  

OREGON!!

We got into oregon yesterday afternoon and let me tell you it was beautiful!! We went to the Origional Roadhouse last night and I had a great steak dinner ate lots of peanuts and had some great sweet rolls...haha...but today we had breakfast and trained.  The Oregon facilities are amazing!  I guess that NIKE hooks them up because one of the main nike guys went to oregon so they get a ton of stuff from them!  Here is a pic of there football stadium from the front.  I'm off to the game!

Home Weekend

Starters vs. Georgia

Me getting back in position
 

Me and my fav. cb!  starting team huddle

So although we had some tough losses this past weekend it was a learning experience and great to get my first start of my college career in!  We are off to oregon this weekend and I'm really excited!  It will be fun to go play the Ducks and Beavers!  Rich told us that teams rarley come out of oregon with two wins so if our team can do that it would be a great accomplishment.  hopecullly wi will get our record back up to 500 and keep going up from there!! 

Here are some pics from my first start!