Buff State Game 2

On Sunday, two weekends ago we faced Buffalo State for the second time that weekend. The night before, we tied them and were very excited to get the game underway. We knew we could out play them and we new that we were better then them, so for us to do our best was a must.

When we got to the rink we were already at a disadvantage two of our girls were getting sick. We all ate breakfast at the hotel that morning so after the two of them were vomiting, we were all nervous, however, nobody else got the nauseous feeling. We warmed up before getting dressed and figured the rest of us had to pick it up to make up for the two girls that weren't feeling too good. After warm-ups a few other girls got sick, this really made our team nervous. About half of our team was not feeling good and now we knew we had to step it up. We went out for warm-ups flying. We felt confident and had for once a great warm-up.

Almost ten minutes into the game, Buffalo State scored their goal. At this point the confidence that we had during warm-ups was no longer as strong. However with about 4 minutes left in the period, we scored our first goal. Both games were high in penalties and we certainly took advantage of it, and scored our first goal on our power play. One again Heather Crowley came out big and scored the first goal for us. This goal was also a scramble as Janie Byrd took a hard shot from the point and was rebounded by the goalie and was then put in by Heather Crowley. It was very exciting and our teams confidence slowly began to rise. Buffalo State ended the first period with a penalty. So we got the advantage of talking to our power-plays and getting them ready for working hard and getting the puck to the net. With about a minute and half into the second period, we scored our second goal, also the game winning goal. Because of the 18 total penalties throughout the game we once again took advantage of the power play we were given and used it to get ahead by a goal. We held the score all throughout the second period and the third. We ended up winning 2-1 and it was very exciting. We came out that weekend with 3 points total and giving recruits another thought about where they want to go.