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Women's Soccer Falls to Cumberland University

Montreat women’s soccer team fell to Cumberland University last Saturday. Two early first half goals were the deciding factors in Cumberlands victory over Montreat. The Lady Cavaliers played hard but in the end did not have an answer for the Cumberland attack.Coach Maples commented on the game saying, “The same bug keeps biting us. We are giving up soft goals early in a game and never get a chance to get our flow before we are behind. For the first four minutes we had the ball in their half. They get a counter attack, we get back and the only time they get across the half line, they end up with a goal. It takes the wind out of us and we have to regroup. You can see it took the energy out of us because we didn’t start getting shots until later in the first half. We changed some personnel in important spots with 23 minutes left in the first half and our energy picked up. From there the game was ours. CU only got six shots the rest of the game and only one in the second half.

Players came in off the bench to give us much needed flame, not a spark. Sara Lima played her heart out getting back on defense and pushing forward in the attack. Bethany Carmichael, who has missed the last two games with a nagging injury, came back and gave us some quality time making big stops to keep the ball in their half.

Captain Rebecca Worley, called a team meeting after the game saying to the team, “Remember how this feels right now; the adrenaline of the intensity in which they had worked and played with such a passion. She told them to never forget it! If we learn from this and use it in future games, then I’ll take a loss to improve in this particular area.”

The Lady Cavaliers take on Warren Wilson at home on Thursday, September 18th at 5:30 pm.


Written By: Garrett Jones
Posted By: Amanda Hollifield
Date Posted: 9/16/2008
Number of Views: 746

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