As the temperatures in Plattsburgh begin to drop and people start taking Instagrams of pretending to pick apples, it only means one thing. SUNYAC's have begun!!! Before we started conference play, we ended our last non conference game in a very exciting fashion. With a tough loss from Middlebury last year still on our minds, we knew what we had to do this season. The game was a thriller as usual as we trailed behind 1-0 until the wonderful Anissa scored on a penalty kick. Tying up the game and giving everyone in the stands a heart attack, Anissa scored another one in overtime with the assist from Mad Sac giving us yet another well earned victory!! So basically Anissa is a lifesaver and we all love her for her goal scoring skills, which is why she also received SUNYAC offensive player of the week also :) Woooohhhoooo!!
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| Anissa #20 |
Last weekend, we played Potsdam for our SUNYAC opener! Both teams fought to the end (literally) forcing us into yet again another double overtime. Pretty sure I have some gray hair now from all this overtime stress! And in wonderful Cardinal fashion, Cait finished the game off for us with a awesome goal to win it 1-0!! :)
With a win under our belts, we all wanted more! With a full week of practice and fitness music Monday's beginning, we all had a solid week of practice preparing for our next rivals! First stop was Cortland. I think everyone can agree the food this year on road trips = on point! Obviously we all look forward to food or as coach said this weekend, "We kick butt and than eat!" I mean we all our soccer players so our life consumes of three things during the fall semester: eating, sleeping and soccer. Since I was a freshman, the rivalry between Plattsburgh and Cortland has grown and on Friday it showed until the very end. Until we scored at the very end of the match (thank you again Anissa), it was a battle. Ashlie slotted a ball by Cortland's defense to Anissa who scored giving us the 1-0 win!! A few of us had friends who played on the Cortland team, which was fun playing against old teammates too :)
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| Eggplant parm at Logan's <3 |
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| The bathroom mirrors were a little too high for me at Logan's |
With our adrenaline still high from the day before, we were off to Oswego for our third conference game! The teams in our conference are all tough competitors and want to win! Cait scored a early goal in the game giving us a 1-0 lead. Battling to the end we fell just a tad short losing 2-1. The past two games gave us a sense of what the next few weeks will look like and what we have to work on. We will continue to work hard and push each other to get the outcomes we want! We still have a lot of soccer left and always room to improve!! Our record in our conference is now 2-1.
I also wanted to take a quick moment to thank all the parents who travel on the weekends to see us play, especially as the cold weather in quickly approaching. Without them, we wouldn't be where we are today! So thank you for being there through the wins and losses, the rain and snow and being our supportive cheerleaders!
We have our first home conference play double header this weekend!!!! On Friday we play New Paltz at 3pm and Oneonta at 1pm! Hope everyone can make it :) GO CARDS!
Here's a quick video of what our road trips look like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJeD85BCkZw
Watch until the end because you'll get a good laugh :)
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