Squirrely Soccer
BW Women take down Marietta
The Baldwin-Wallace College women’s soccer team defeated Ohio Athletic Conference rival Marietta College, 3-0, tonight (Saturday October 25, 2008) on Tressel Field at The George Finnie Stadium on Seniors’ Night in Berea. The women’s game was the opener of a women’s and men’s Seniors’ Night doubleheader.
With its win, the Yellow Jackets improve to 7-6-3 overall and 4-3 in the OAC. With its loss, Marietta falls to 4-9-3 overall and 2-2-3 in the OAC.
After a physical, but scoreless first half, sophomore All-OAC midfielder Linsey Clapacs (Willoughby Hills/South) opened the scoring at the at the 67:04 mark when she scored her second goal of the season unassisted. Clapacs’ struck a low shot from about 25 yards out, which beat Marietta goalie Helen Hetzel far post. Then with only 3:31 remaining freshman forward Noelle Fox (Canfield) added the insurance goal off a pass from her sister junior forward Natalie Fox (Canfield). Noelle Fox and sophomore midfielder Liz Rice (Wooster/Triway) then connected with only 1:20 left, with Rice supplying the assist for Fox’s second goal of the game.
In goal for B-W, sophomore Becky Miner (Berea) faced four shots Pioneer shots, allowed zero goals and made four saves.
B-W won the battle of shots, 20-6, and corner kicks were even at 9.
B-W returns to action on Wednesday, Oct. 29 when it travels to University Heights to play OAC and Cleveland cross-town rival John Carroll University on Wasmer Field in Don Shula Stadium at 4:00 p.m. The Yellow Jackets end the regular season on Saturday, November 1 when they travel to Wilmington, Ohio to play Wilmington College at 7:00 p.m
With its win, the Yellow Jackets improve to 7-6-3 overall and 4-3 in the OAC. With its loss, Marietta falls to 4-9-3 overall and 2-2-3 in the OAC.
After a physical, but scoreless first half, sophomore All-OAC midfielder Linsey Clapacs (Willoughby Hills/South) opened the scoring at the at the 67:04 mark when she scored her second goal of the season unassisted. Clapacs’ struck a low shot from about 25 yards out, which beat Marietta goalie Helen Hetzel far post. Then with only 3:31 remaining freshman forward Noelle Fox (Canfield) added the insurance goal off a pass from her sister junior forward Natalie Fox (Canfield). Noelle Fox and sophomore midfielder Liz Rice (Wooster/Triway) then connected with only 1:20 left, with Rice supplying the assist for Fox’s second goal of the game.
In goal for B-W, sophomore Becky Miner (Berea) faced four shots Pioneer shots, allowed zero goals and made four saves.
B-W won the battle of shots, 20-6, and corner kicks were even at 9.
B-W returns to action on Wednesday, Oct. 29 when it travels to University Heights to play OAC and Cleveland cross-town rival John Carroll University on Wasmer Field in Don Shula Stadium at 4:00 p.m. The Yellow Jackets end the regular season on Saturday, November 1 when they travel to Wilmington, Ohio to play Wilmington College at 7:00 p.m
BW Women Draw with Grove City 1-1
The Baldwin-Wallace College women’s soccer team tied Grove City College of Pennsylvania, 1-1 in double overtime, tonight on Tressel Field pitch at The George Finnie Stadium in Berea. The Yellow Jackets are now 2-0-1 in their last three matches.
With its tie, B-W is now 3-2-2 overall and next plays on Saturday, Sept. 27 at 4:30 p.m. against Westminster College of Pennsylvania.
B-W won the battle of shots, 17-14, and corner kicks, 6-4, but could not put the Wolverines away when they had the chance.
B-W gained a 1-0 lead at the 74:02 mark of the second half when freshman Brittany Thomas (Westerville/ Central) scored her first collegiate goal off of a corner kick that deflected off of a defender and then off of the hands of the goalie. Grove City then countered with just 26 seconds left in regulation on a penalty kick. The game remained tied through the two 10-minute overtime sessions.
In goal, Yellow Jacket sophomore keeper Becky Miner (Berea) faced 14 shots and recorded seven saves. Grove City goalie, senior Diana Pragel faced 17 B-W shots and made six saves.
Senior Co-Captain Allie Wojtkun's Grove City Game Blog.......
Tonight we tied Grove City one to one which was an unfortunate outcome based on our performance throughout the game. It was obvious that we showed up to play today; especially because we were playing at home and we had to make up for our last home performance. We came out ready to prove our skills to our fans and as always we are grateful for all the fan support that we received! We went into half-time tied at zeros and we knew what we had to do to tilt the game our way—we needed to keep up the intensity, be first to the ball and find the open side of the field so that our forwards had a chance to receive the ball behind the Grove City defense.
These tactics helped us to achieve the corner kick that we were able to capitalize on. At about the 75th minute Brittany Thomas took the corner kick and hit an in-swinger that grazed off the head of a Grove City defender and into the goal. This goal gave us another boost of energy and we continued to pressure and try to find more chances throughout the rest of the game. Unfortunately with about 25 seconds left we gave up a penalty kick and Grove City was able to tie up the game. Although this situation was less than ideal we never gave up. We fought through both overtimes and continued to attempt to find the back of the net.
I am very proud of my team based on our performance tonight. Although we may not have won, we continued to fight and no one gave up. I am looking forward to our game on Saturday against Westminster so that we have another chance to win in front of our home fans!
-Allie
These tactics helped us to achieve the corner kick that we were able to capitalize on. At about the 75th minute Brittany Thomas took the corner kick and hit an in-swinger that grazed off the head of a Grove City defender and into the goal. This goal gave us another boost of energy and we continued to pressure and try to find more chances throughout the rest of the game. Unfortunately with about 25 seconds left we gave up a penalty kick and Grove City was able to tie up the game. Although this situation was less than ideal we never gave up. We fought through both overtimes and continued to attempt to find the back of the net.
I am very proud of my team based on our performance tonight. Although we may not have won, we continued to fight and no one gave up. I am looking forward to our game on Saturday against Westminster so that we have another chance to win in front of our home fans!
-Allie
