Replay of State Semis

Game 7: (7-0-0)
8 April vs. Bishop Carroll at Bishop Carroll, 2-0

Girls' Season Stats 

EKL Standings


Alert: it still does not feel like Spring. In this rematch of last year's semi-finals, the Saints prevailed 2-0, but it was not an offensive explosion by either side. It seemed a little bit like the Mo-Kan finals against SM East, but the 20-mile-an-hour plus wind probably had a lot to do with it. And the narrowness of that Carroll field does take away from some of the things we like to do offensively.

Carroll will be up for the worst streaming experience award at the end of the year, however. For all of the 17 viewers, we mostly watched a lot of spinning from the buffer zone. But we did come away with the awareness of the very close match and our quality possession skills. And we can watch it after the fact with no buffering. Check it out!

Saints gave Carroll their second loss, as they had fallen to a 5-And-0 Maize team, in overtime, earlier in the week.  The early favorites to come out of the State bracket from the West would be Carroll and Maize—so if we continue to play well, we just might see Carroll again in the yet, another, State Semi-final.

We are back in action this Tuesday against St. Teresa's at Saint Thomas Aquinas.

(Due to another night of heavy wind, we don't have our own video for the match, but we do have some clips cut out of theirs, and we do have Assa's interview with Mrs. Paradise)

STATS

First Half:

Saints: Shots: 4 (0) Corners: 0

Crusaders: Shots: 1 (0) Corners: 0

Second Half:

Saints: Shots: 5 (2) Corners: 0

26:59 Marn (off the Watts' long right-side free kick on a header out of the scrum)

9:56 O'Keefe (Cabantac has a nice settle and turn before slotting it through)

Crusaders: Shots: 3 (0) Corners: 0

Assa in the Hot Seat


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