26 October 2008
Crush Win Their 6th Game Going Away
10/29/08 22:49 Filed in: Games
This evening at 6:30pm,
the Crush got to play under the lights of Central
Park. It was a very mild October evening, which made
for perfect soccer weather. The Crush played the
Crashers for the second time in 11 days. This game
was even more lopsided than the first game with the
Crashers. This time the Crush managed to get multiple
goals and once again shut out a San Ramon opponent,
winning 3-0.
This game started with three starters on the sidelines, as Jeanina Farmer, Dawn Ye, & Emma Young all came a little after the start of the game due to chorus practice. Because of this, I was able to put Jeanina as forward, a position that she hasn’t played all year. I wanted to put Jeanina there last game, but she knew how important the last game was and she didn’t want to move from her sweeper position. Well, it took Jeanina only three minutes to get a clean look at the goal and she pounded it past the goalie for the first goal of the game and Jeanina’s first goal of the season. Jeanina’s goal was actually setup by a beautiful pass from Kaitlyn Tran, who easily had her best game of the season. In fact, partly due to this pass, Kaitlyn got the coveted hustle lightning patch as well as getting an assist patch. Nice job girls!
The Crush took their 1-0 lead into halftime, but once again they completely dominated the half, with most of the action taking place on the Crashers side of the field. Any time the Crashers thought they had a breakaway, Stopper extraordinaire Judy Kang would come in and take the ball away or force a bad pass that another Crush could intercept. I don’t know how she does it, but Judy covers the entire field, and she makes it look almost effortless. As good as our defense has been, we would not have shut out every single San Ramon team without Judy’s incredible effort on the defensive end. As good as Judy has played in the past, this game was definitely her best one to date. Not only did she keep the one Crashers player that had a chance at a score from even taking a shot, but she scored a goal of her own in the second half, as well as constantly tormenting the Crashers everywhere on the field. There was no doubt in my mind who deserved the star of the game patch and that was Judy Kang. Great game Judo!
After taking four or five shots last week, Emma Young only needed one good one this week. Emma got her first goal of the season midway through the second half. Just seconds after the right forward, Julia Guesnon, got hurt and had to come out, Emma took her place and one touched a beautiful pass from Judy over everyone’s head right into the goal. It was a very pretty play! I’ve been playing Emma as left forward all this year and maybe this tells me I need to put her in at right forward. Good job Emma!
Victoria Gaither had another strong game at right defender and earned the defender of the game patch. I wanted to let Victoria get a chance at playing forward, but she really didn’t want to play anything other than defender. She does such a good job back there that it is hard to argue with her. Dawn Ye played left defender for the second half and she had some absolutely huge kicks back there. This is Dawn’s first year of organized soccer and at the start of the season, Dawn could hardly kick the ball. She now probably has the strongest leg on the team and I’m looking forward to see if she can’t use that newfound monster kick to get a goal or two. Still, it’s nice having that strong leg and her tough play on the defensive side of the ball.
I also need to thank both Isabela Escalante and Korah Rose for playing goalie part of the time in the second half. Isabela just about never saw the ball while she was in goal since it was almost always about 70 yards or more away from her. I know it probably wasn’t a lot of fun, but I appreciate you both for stepping up and playing goalie without complaining.
Speaking of goalies, I need to mention Adrienne Lampo. There’s a back story here that not everyone knows about. Apparently, a number of girls on the Crashers go to the same school as Adrienne and for some unknown reason decided it was a good idea to trash talk Adrienne all day at school. Adrienne, being the upstanding girl we know her to be, let it slide off her, but couldn’t help but get fired up for this game. For the first half, Adrienne played her customary goalie role and wasn’t able to contribute much since the Crashers never took a single shot on goal. But in the second half, Adrienne played center midfielder almost the entire 30 minutes. I probably should have taken her out for a little bit, just so she could catch her breath, but I wanted her to score so badly, I just let her keep playing. Adrienne took one really good shot on goal, but just barely missed it. Despite the lack of rest, late in the game, Adrienne showed off her speed and ran down a ball that easily could have been taken by the Crashers deep into our territory. Adrienne got there first and cleared it up the field safely away from the Crashers. That one play really impressed me because of how hard she ran that late in the game. In retrospect, I think I need to give Adrienne a hustle lightning patch right along with Kaitlyn Tran, because she definitely deserved it. Nice game Adrienne. I don’t think you’ll have to worry about the trash talkers at school anymore.
We have one more regular season game this weekend and then we get ready for Crossroads!
Patch Distribution:
Victory patch: The entire Crush team
Goal patches: Jeanette Farmer, Emma Young, Judy Kang
Assist patches: Dawn Ye to Kaitlyn Tran (for Jeanina’s goal), Judy Kang (for Emma’s goal)
Blood Patches: Jeanina Farmer, Julia Guesnon
Defender of the game patch: Victoria Gaither
Hustle patch: Kaitlyn Tran
Star of the game: Judy Kang
This game started with three starters on the sidelines, as Jeanina Farmer, Dawn Ye, & Emma Young all came a little after the start of the game due to chorus practice. Because of this, I was able to put Jeanina as forward, a position that she hasn’t played all year. I wanted to put Jeanina there last game, but she knew how important the last game was and she didn’t want to move from her sweeper position. Well, it took Jeanina only three minutes to get a clean look at the goal and she pounded it past the goalie for the first goal of the game and Jeanina’s first goal of the season. Jeanina’s goal was actually setup by a beautiful pass from Kaitlyn Tran, who easily had her best game of the season. In fact, partly due to this pass, Kaitlyn got the coveted hustle lightning patch as well as getting an assist patch. Nice job girls!
The Crush took their 1-0 lead into halftime, but once again they completely dominated the half, with most of the action taking place on the Crashers side of the field. Any time the Crashers thought they had a breakaway, Stopper extraordinaire Judy Kang would come in and take the ball away or force a bad pass that another Crush could intercept. I don’t know how she does it, but Judy covers the entire field, and she makes it look almost effortless. As good as our defense has been, we would not have shut out every single San Ramon team without Judy’s incredible effort on the defensive end. As good as Judy has played in the past, this game was definitely her best one to date. Not only did she keep the one Crashers player that had a chance at a score from even taking a shot, but she scored a goal of her own in the second half, as well as constantly tormenting the Crashers everywhere on the field. There was no doubt in my mind who deserved the star of the game patch and that was Judy Kang. Great game Judo!
After taking four or five shots last week, Emma Young only needed one good one this week. Emma got her first goal of the season midway through the second half. Just seconds after the right forward, Julia Guesnon, got hurt and had to come out, Emma took her place and one touched a beautiful pass from Judy over everyone’s head right into the goal. It was a very pretty play! I’ve been playing Emma as left forward all this year and maybe this tells me I need to put her in at right forward. Good job Emma!
Victoria Gaither had another strong game at right defender and earned the defender of the game patch. I wanted to let Victoria get a chance at playing forward, but she really didn’t want to play anything other than defender. She does such a good job back there that it is hard to argue with her. Dawn Ye played left defender for the second half and she had some absolutely huge kicks back there. This is Dawn’s first year of organized soccer and at the start of the season, Dawn could hardly kick the ball. She now probably has the strongest leg on the team and I’m looking forward to see if she can’t use that newfound monster kick to get a goal or two. Still, it’s nice having that strong leg and her tough play on the defensive side of the ball.
I also need to thank both Isabela Escalante and Korah Rose for playing goalie part of the time in the second half. Isabela just about never saw the ball while she was in goal since it was almost always about 70 yards or more away from her. I know it probably wasn’t a lot of fun, but I appreciate you both for stepping up and playing goalie without complaining.
Speaking of goalies, I need to mention Adrienne Lampo. There’s a back story here that not everyone knows about. Apparently, a number of girls on the Crashers go to the same school as Adrienne and for some unknown reason decided it was a good idea to trash talk Adrienne all day at school. Adrienne, being the upstanding girl we know her to be, let it slide off her, but couldn’t help but get fired up for this game. For the first half, Adrienne played her customary goalie role and wasn’t able to contribute much since the Crashers never took a single shot on goal. But in the second half, Adrienne played center midfielder almost the entire 30 minutes. I probably should have taken her out for a little bit, just so she could catch her breath, but I wanted her to score so badly, I just let her keep playing. Adrienne took one really good shot on goal, but just barely missed it. Despite the lack of rest, late in the game, Adrienne showed off her speed and ran down a ball that easily could have been taken by the Crashers deep into our territory. Adrienne got there first and cleared it up the field safely away from the Crashers. That one play really impressed me because of how hard she ran that late in the game. In retrospect, I think I need to give Adrienne a hustle lightning patch right along with Kaitlyn Tran, because she definitely deserved it. Nice game Adrienne. I don’t think you’ll have to worry about the trash talkers at school anymore.
We have one more regular season game this weekend and then we get ready for Crossroads!
Patch Distribution:
Victory patch: The entire Crush team
Goal patches: Jeanette Farmer, Emma Young, Judy Kang
Assist patches: Dawn Ye to Kaitlyn Tran (for Jeanina’s goal), Judy Kang (for Emma’s goal)
Blood Patches: Jeanina Farmer, Julia Guesnon
Defender of the game patch: Victoria Gaither
Hustle patch: Kaitlyn Tran
Star of the game: Judy Kang
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