at UMass B 24Sep2023

Rainy weather from remnants of another hurricane made us brace for a difficult afternoon, but it turned out fine with only some drizzle and 15C/60F temps. Maddie’s folks, Chloe’s mom and Kelly’s grandparents were there!

Both UMass teams have been strong, so we knew we needed to be quick with the ball. Playing on turf is not our first choice - more injurious, makes the ball move overly fast, etc - and the drizzle made the ball move even faster than usual!

Both teams were pressing quickly and neither had much possession, but UMass B got off the first shot that went wide in the 7th minute. Addie saved their second shot seven minutes later.

Nicole, Caitlin and Liv pounded the UMass goal with shots in the 15th minute, resulting in a corner taken by Nicole. She had a shot go wide a minute later. After UMass had a corner and another shot go wide, Nicole had another shot saved.

Nathalie showed her amazing dribbling skills in the 30th minute, getting in behind the UMass defense on the left side of the field and firing a low shot into their net. 

Addie saved two more UMass shots before and after Sara earned a free kick taken by Dani. Sara had a shot saved and earned another free kick from midfield - that shot was saved at the end of the half.

We were delighted to have a goal but knew we had to keep working hard. We were glad to be able to connect more+shorter passes to keep more possession than they had. 

UMass started the second half strongly, with two corners - one that we blocked. They had a shot go wide before Nathalie’s corner kick in the 49th minute.

Hattie had a shot saved before she took a corner kick earned by Dani. UMass had a shot go wide before Addie saved another in the 67th. Abby R got off a great shot that was saved before Nicole’s went high.

Nicole earned a corner kick taken beautifully by Caitlin, and Sara sent the rebound from the right side of the field into the upper left corner of the UMass goal from something like 30m!

This was a hard-earned win with everyone working extremely intensely on a very fast surface for 80 minutes! WAY TO GO!

G: Addie Winship

CD: Rachel Horne+Molly Knox, Kelly Zreloff

OD: Sara Pickrell+Daniella Nichols, Chloe Gern+Kate Clark

CM: Maddie Kim+Hattie Hatton+Abby Reiner

OM: Eliza Durbin+Nathalie Maffei, Liv Deeley+Nicole Bogdanos

F: Caitlin Evers, Sara Pickrell

Shots 12:9 Saves 4:8

7 UMass shot wide

14 UMass shot saved by Addie

15 Nicole, Caitlin, Liv shots blocked for a corner by Nicole

16 Nicole shot wide 

21 UMass corner, shot wide 

25 Nicole shot saved 

30 Nathalie dribbling into space on the left side, shot low -> 1:0

34 UMass shot saved by Addie 

35 Sara earned a free kick from midfield taken by Dani

38 UMass shot saved by Addie 

40 Sara shot saved, she earned a free kick from midfield, shot saved 

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44 UMass corner, shot blocked

45 UMass corner 

49 UMass shot wide 

     Nathalie corner 

50 Hattie shot saved 

54 Dani earned a corner taken by Hattie

63 UMass shot wide 

67 UMass shot saved by Addie 

70 Abby R shot saved 

72 Nicole shot over

74 Nicole earned a corner taken by Caitlin 

     Sara fired from 30m upper left -> 2:0