Mostly sunny and warm ~68F/20C, we welcomed new-to-the-League Springfield to our beautiful field for our game at noon, along with many student fans and Claire’s dad and Eliza’s parents and fuzzy pup Walter.
We spoke about playing quickly as preparation for tomorrow’s game at UMass A. We wasted no time getting a corner kick in the 3rd minute that Lizzy sent to Kalā, whose shot went wide. Same situation four minutes later with Kalā’s shot over.
Springfield sent a shot wide before Julia earned a corner for Abby B to take. Erika did well getting forward in the 21st, earning a free kick in their third of the field. Then Kalyn and Zanna had shots saved before Zanna set up Avery for her goal into the upper-left corner of their net.
After Springfield’s free kick from their third, Genevieve struck a rebounded ball that their GK couldn’t hold onto, giving us our 2nd goal.
Ash earned a free kick in our third, sending us up for field for Kalā’s shot that was saved in the 32nd minute. Then Springfield got a free kick in out third just before Ash sent the ball up the left side of the field to Mudia, who dribbled past her defender and crossed the ball perfectly to Nathalie, whose wonderful shot from the right side of the field gave us our 3rd goal in the 34th minute.
Lizzy earned a free kick in our third for Ash to take before Ash earned a corner kick for Lizzy to take; then Lizzy took a free kick in their third and had a shot go wide just before the break.
We were very pleased by our recovery after a somewhat slow start, and especially proud of the goals - two of them scored by members of the Class of 2026!! We suggested that our midfield players get back quickly to help when we lose the ball, to use more width when we have the ball and to switch the ball to the other side of the field more often.
Springfield got off the first shot but it went wide, then Claire earned a free kick in the middle of the field before Springfield sent another shot wide. Caitlin earned a corner kick that Abby B took, and Sara had a shot go wide just before Caitlin, Avery, Genevieve and Eliza had shots saved within about 10 minutes before Eliza’s lower-right shot gave us our 4th goal in the 60th minute.
Springfield had another shot go wide and took a free kick in our third before Caris sped upfield to quash a ball off the feet of an attacking player in the 65th. Mudia almost scored with a shot that hit their side-netting before Nathalie had a shot saved. Ash, Lizzy, Caitlin and Julia had shots go wide before Sara earned and took a free kick in their third; Abby B’s shot went over.
Julia earned a corner for Sara to take; then Ella had a shot blocked for another corner. Springfield had a shot saved by Caris before Kalyn’s shot went wide. Ella set up Kalyn in the 80th minute for our 5th goal just before Caitlin’s shot was saved.
G: Caris White
CD: Kalā Harman, Molly Knox, Rachel Horne, Kelly Zreloff
OD: Aislinn Mitcham+Kelly Rutherford, Kate Clark+Sara Pickrell, Erika Huston+Daniella Nichols
CM: Lizzy Strapp+Lana Kanno+ Krista Schemitsch, Claire Meli+Abby Burgess+Abby Headstrom, Avery Jones+Ella Steinhilber
OM: Eliza Durbin+Nathalie Maffei, Caitlin Evers+Kalyn Dawes, Genevieve Schaefer
F: Mudia Ikoba, Julia Gottschalk, Zanna Stutz
Shots 26:5 Saves 1:9
3 Lizzy corner, Kalā shot wide
7 Lizzy corner, Kalā shot over
10 Julia earned corner for Abby B
21 Erika earned a free kick in their third
22 Kalyn shot saved
23 Zanna shot saved
26 Zanna set up Avery upper-left -> 1:0
27 Springfield free kick their third
28 Genevieve got rebound -> 2:0
31 Ash earned free kick our third
32 Kalā shot saved
33 Springfield free kick our third
34 Ash to Mudia to Nathalie -> 3:0
35 Lizzy earned free kick our third taken by Ash
36 Ash earned corner - Lizzy
37 Lizzy free kick their third
38 Lizzy shot wide
43 Springfield shot wide
44 Claire earned free kick at half-field
45 Springfield shot wide
47 Caitlin earned corner - Abby B
Sara shot wide
49 Caitlin shot saved
53 Avery shot sav
56 Genevieve shot saved
59 Kalā earned free kick mid-field
60 Eliza shot saved
Eliza lower-right -> 4:0
61 Springfield shot wide
63 Springfield free kick our third
65 Caris came out quickly to grab the ball off feet!
66 Mudia shot wide, side netting
67 Nathalie shot saved
Ash shot wide
69 Lizzy shot wide
73 Caitlin, Julia shots wide
74 Sara earned free kick their third - Sara
Abby B shot over
76 Julia earned corner - Sara
Ella shot blocked for a corner
78 Springfield shot saved by Caris
79 Kalyn shot wide
80 Ella set up Kalyn -> 5:0
Caitlin shot saved
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