RTL

For a few weeks now the Foresters have been striving to live up to the slogan "Refuse To Lose." This past weekend, with two more victories against Conference opponents, we continued to "resist the loss" and are currently on a 6 game win streak headed into our most important game(s) of the year.

This past weekend's games, played during the course of a road trip to southwestern IL, while fun and occasionally intense, were not the highlight of the weekend. Of course we wanted to win, and would have been extremely disappointed had we not beaten both Illinois College and Monmouth, but a team celebration of Halloween ended up being the most memorable moment of this Friday/Saturday overnight.

Earlier in the week everyone's name (including coaches) had been put into a hat. Each team member then drew a name and spent the week getting together a costume they could wear as that person. Saturday night, at a lovely AmericInn in Monmouth, IL, we all put on our "costumes" and went around trying to guess who everyone represented. A few stood out: Webby in a bathrobe representing Monica, TR with a skateboard as BZ, Isabel as Kylie "I'm just so tired" Mannion, a silent Bri doing a perfect imitation of Care, and finally, Christine Sorensen looking pretty darn good as TR.

Post-costume party, pizza was eaten, candy was distributed, we all went off to enjoy our extra hour of sleep (thanks to the end of DST), and drift asleep with visions of beating the Fighting Scots dancing in our head. Our post-victory routine was the same as usual--shower, eat, come back and cheer on the men. Sunday's routine was spiced up a little with a 1-0 Forester Men's win and the consumption of lots and lots of Halloween candy.



This Friday we play St. Norbert College at 4pm in Waukesha, WI and will attempt to avenge our regular season loss to them. A victory against the Green Knights will put us in the Conference Championship game at 7pm Saturday where we will meet the winner of Carroll/Lawrence. If you can't join us in person please send us your good thoughts and well wishes! You can view the game online here, although a link may not appear until close to game time Friday.