Victory!

We earned our first overtime victory of the season on Saturday at Lawrence University. The game was fairly even--Lawrence had some chances they didn't capitalize on, and we hit the post and the crossbar a couple times in the first half. Both teams had some defensive errors and breakdowns and displayed some nice finishing. Unfortunately we were always playing from behind.

Lawrence scored, we scored, Lawrence scored, we scored. That took us to overtime tied at two goals apiece. Overtime is two ten-minute, golden goal periods. If either team scores, the game ends; if 20 minutes elapse without a goal, the game ends in a tie.

As you can see from the box score, Becky Esrock buried one at the end of the first OT period to win the game. Lawrence has now fallen to 2-1 in conference while the Foresters remain undefeated at 3-0.

A longer practice week awaits us this week, with just two games. We host Concordia College of Wisconsin on Thursday and travel back to northeastern Wisconsin on Saturday to play St. Norbert College in another tough conference match-up.

Hopefully coming up this week on the ForesterSoccer blog: a chance to "meet" some of the players who you never really see in the box score, but who are crucial to our success. Freshman sweeper Courtenay Raymond for example, or backup goalkeeper Angie Chronis, or senior fullback C.C. Hayne.

Stay tuned.