While the large majority of the crowd was sluggish and and clumsy, fighting off hangovers from a Saturday night at Clark University, the Women’s Club Lacrosse team was fired and ready to go this Sunday morning at their 9:45 home game against the long rivaled Brandies Judges.
At the draw of the game, Ali Glick set the mood for the Cougars by making a break away and scoring only seconds into the match. The ball continued to whizz up and down the field for the proceeding 15 minutes in a competitive frenzy between the two rival teams.
17 minutes into the first half, the Judges were given a free shot after a Cougar slashed an opponents stick, tying up the score 1-1. It wasn’t long before the Cougars came back to score 3 more goals before the end of the first half leading 4-2.
The Judges entered the second half with a new burst of energy making 6 shots at goal, 3 of which got in, bringing them to lead the score at 4-5, 13 minutes into the second half.
After a trying beginning to the second half, the Cougar defense finally got a break when midi, Angie Marshall, carried the ball into the Cougar’s offensive half where it was passed around for the next 2 minutes while the Cougars waited for the right opportunity to make a shot. That opportunity was taken once the ball returned to Marshall who made a goal from outside the fan, once again tying up the game 5-5.
Excluding the one additional goal made by the Judges, the Cougars prevailed in the last 10 minutes of the game scoring 3 more goals and ending the game with a victorious score of 8-6.
“We’re so excited about this win,” Explains Marshall of the Cougars, “This was a major home game for us because it was against our toughest competition.”
In past years, the Judges have proven to be the only team in Women’s Varsity Club Lacrosse that the Cougars couldn’t manage to defeat.
“We have a lot of new girls with a lot of talent, so we were excited to show them how much we’ve improved since last year,” Glick says of the Cougar win.
With this victory, the Cougars have proven that each year brings new competition. This very well may be the turning of a new leaf for this rival pair with the domination of Cougars in future seasons to come.
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