Neumann College Game

On Friday December 7th, 2007, we faced off against Neumann College at 2pm. We played early because our guys had a game later that night, and both games were home. It was very weird having such a early game during a weekday. We haven't had to leave early yet from our classes so it was extremely weird to have to leave earlier from my 11:30 class for a home game. I knew I wasn't ready for the game and I tried my best to get ready but for some reason I just really wasn't ready and wasn't feeling good at all.

We started off on fire again. We scored our first goal a minute into the game and were very excited, after about five minutes we scored another goal. After this goal Neumann took a time-out to get back onto their feet. Neumann is a good team, they have a lot of speed and few girls with a lot of skills however, we were outplaying them at this point in time. However after taking a penalty after our second goal, Neumann capitalized on this and scored their first goal of the game. With about 6 minutes left in the period, our team on a Penalty kill, blocked a shot from the point and went down on a break away and scored our third goal. Penalty kill goals are always exciting because your down another person and your supposed to be dominated, but when you break out from being dominated and score a goal with only 4 people to 5, its very exciting. I was on the ice for this goal and I can truly say I was very excited. However, with about 30 seconds left in the first period, Neumann scored their second goal. This goal was one of those that you knew they would come out flying during the second period. Through-out the second period the game was back and forth, we were playing really well and keeping the puck in their zone, however, our goalie, Melissa Stern was making key saves. After the second period the score was still 3-2.

With about 4 minutes left of the third period we scored our 4th goal. After scoring the fourth goal we were really excited and thought for sure that we had the game under our belt, and we should've. However, with about 50 seconds left we started giving up, our team was getting tired and just wanted the game to be over. With 25 seconds left Neumann scored their third goal. After this goal everyone was pretty upset the ref's made some really bad calls and the goal was scored with the net off. It was frustrating and the refs were ruining the game for us it felt like. However, with getting wrapped up in the bad calls the refs made our team let down our guard and Neumann scored with 3 seconds left in the period. It hit us hard and was very frustrating. Everyone was upset especially the 5 of us that were out on the ice. We play overtime for five minutes and kept the score the same. Although we tied the game, we felt as if we have lost the game because of the 2 goals within the last 25 seconds.