The reports are in! Two views of the game agree that it was a repeat performed of the first playoff game. Here's what Linda said:
".... we were up 2 -0 until about half-way through the second half when Coreen Franke scored, then literally seconds before the end of the game Coreen got past us again, scored, and tied it up sending us into another shoot-out. We couldn’t believe it!
The firing squad this time consisted of Colleen, Kirsten, myself, Jane E. and Janet. Jane had a fantastic shot and scored, the rest of us didn’t score but at least had shots on the net, stopped by the keeper. Fortunately, the wildcats couldn’t even hit the net – Janet had one great save and the rest of their shots were wide – so Chaos emerged victorious!
I see on the website and in the paper today, the score was reported as 1 – 0 with Kirsten scoring the goal! Janet got credit for a shut-out. They didn’t even report the goals scored in the actual game – I don’t know if that ref knows what he’s doing."
Here's what Jane said:
"...Certainly the midfield situation was serious - especially when the only regular midfielder (Kirsten) went into goal for the second half. We actually covered that quite well - Linda and Jane E shared with Kirsten in the first half and when we went down to 2 in the second half it was Lori and Jane E...(not sure if Lori realized it but Jane E took her regular 2 minute shifts and Lori took the place of the other 2 players by playing for 4 minutes at a time - worked well for everyone!).
The forwards played well, chasing every ball and kept working until we had a commanding 2 goal lead. I think the real story of the game was the potentially career threatening injury suffered by our most experienced defender (Anna) - don't worry - like her idol Rooney she'll be back next week. After Anna was stretchered off (ok - after Anna decided she had played her last shift) we fell apart, our 2-0 lead evaporated and we ended up back in a shootout ... sound familiar?
Fortunately we learned from our experience last week and all of our shooters were able to put the ball on the net and at least make the keeper move to save it. North Ridge's inexperience showed as they peppered the back wall with their shots making Janet look really good. It was a glorious victory, made sweeter by having Jen back in the line-up and well-deserving of the 2 big pitchers of beer it spawned.
So there you have it!
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