“We won a game against the odds,” said Head JV Coach Sue Baerveldt.
On Oct. 9 the JV field hockey team won its first game against Westminster. The Patriots beat Westminster for the first time in 8 years. The game ended in a 1-0 win. Sophomore Natalie Schrader scored the only goal.
“I was pretty happy I was trying to keep the good vibes up to make sure we won,” Schrader said
Keeping the vibes up and working hard to keep the score was how it was throughout the whole game, according to Schrader. She said she had a good attitude the whole game and communicated what to do throughout the game.
“Tori Knowles and [sophomore] Campbell McCool helped me the most during the game because they told us where to be and how to play and when we needed advice they were there,” freshman Alexis Wright said.
Wright talks about how her captains helped her the most throughout the game. At the beginning of the game, Wright got hit in the head with a ball causing her to have to leave the field in the middle of the game.
“I got hit in the head by the ball in the first quarter then I went back in the second quarter with a bump on my head,” Wright said.
McCool said Wright took the injury in stride.
“Alexis kept a good attitude even though she said her head hurt she didn’t let it get the best of her,” McCool said.
McCool, who is captain of the JV team, commented about the good vibes in the game against the Alpha Wolves and how the whole team started to look like an actual team.
“I think the turning point of the game was when we stepped on the field everyone was in a good mood and happy. We had just bonded with each other a little on the bus ride over and we were all working very hard on the field and trying our best,” McCool said.
In the second half of the game against Westminster, there were three corners taken against the Patriots but they blocked every one and the Wolves didn’t even get a shot off. The Patriots kept the score 1-0 the rest of the game, getting two more shots on the Wolves.
Baerveldt commented on how it felt when the Patriots knew they won.
“I knew we won the game when the buzzer went off and I saw the girls jump up and down over the win. That was when I knew we had won,” Baerveldt said.
