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       These are the current SUNYAC standings. This has us in seventh place, a.k.a not in a fabulous position. The only real positive thing I have to say about this weekend, besides how well the team came together and played, is how proud I am of Em LaLone for scoring on that free kick and not kicking it over the net. Ashley Pagano told me to have some faith and yell, “play with swagger Em!” because Mr. LaLone sent her an email that said we need to run with swagger or something, whatever it said it worked and she bombed the ball into the back of the net so keep those up LaLo. Otherwise we played some kick ass soccer on Friday and in my opinion should have come out of that with a win. Saturday, my feelings are the same and even though I, along with the rest of the team, am devastated about these losses we are dedicating our time this week to figuring out how to get the ball in the goal, period.

       It was baby Cassidy’s 18^th birthday on Friday, little guy won $5 on a scratch ticket. We did secret psycher in the locker room so it was festive and beautiful and a mess. We basically buy out the dollar store and get everyone candy, Gatorade and little gifts to celebrate our first home weekend. I gave myself a stomach ache before both games due to my lack of self control and now all my candy is gone. This weekend is our second away trip, last time I got bunked with Em LaLone and Danielle Schmitt, and because Schmitty physically is too tall to sleep on a futon I let her snuggle with me. This is going to be a tough weekend game wise but we are excited and ready to take on New Paltz and Oneonta. I’m also excited because its Columbus Day weekend and we all get to go home for a few days. I’m flying back to Plattsburgh from Boston on Tuesday so everyone say a little prayer for me and the only four people that fit on my plane.

       Sunday night was the annual SAAC event and all the teams got together for photos and activities. The activities I thought were a bit biased as I got killed by the baseball boys in dodge ball and run down by the track guys in duck duck goose, I think they need to add kickball next year for the soccer players. This year each team was asked to come with a theme prepared, the only teams that did something creative, in my opinion, were men’s hockey who dressed in head to toe neon and women’s basketball who dressed up in camouflage. I thought our idea was pretty cute, maybe because it was my idea, but we each taped a letter to our shirts and spelt out our motto, one team one heartbeat. For all of you that caught on to the fact that that is only 19 letters and our roster is 27 deep, I applaud you. With the remaining letters we spelt out, Buddha. Yes Buddha, and baby Buddha was present for the picture as well. (Yes I know that that is still only 25 letters, but we were missing two players, and they would have been exclamation points) And as a great way to end the event, after bringing shame upon herself and the rest of the team last year, Macee Maddock redeemed herself and only took one piece of pizza this year. Well done Mace, Bruce would be proud.