After a grueling battle against Cornell and a few good acappellas from the first time travelers, including one from myself which seemed to be quite monotone and another from Ben “6’9” 320” Maurey. We had only one practice till our next battle against Holy Cross. This game was special because everyone was allowed to travel. More than other away games, I noticed how many more people were doing work pregame, which is most likely due to the fact that it was on a Tuesday and many people such as myself had exams the next day. Coach came to the back of the bus to gave his pregame speech: “Be ready to play… no excuses… ” after which he stated the started line-up.
We got to the field and it was without a doubt the coldest environment we had played in yet, so the starters really had to be ready to play when the whistle blew. We had a decent warm-up and it was good to have the whole team there to get us hyped up.
We started the game very well, keeping the ball moving and using our back line to keep possession. This was a great opportunity for me to gain confidence and every touch helped. We had a few great opportunities off of crosses to get the first goal, as well as others that our forwards made for themselves. Defensively, Holy cross only threatened us with a couple moments of individual play, including a shot just right of the goal, but other than that E-Rob and Rough McDuff were their usual beastly selves and kept the back in tact in the first half. At half time we were all quite confident in our ability to win the game, we just had to play smart and finish one of opportunities. In the second half we got a more looks at the net while keeping most of the possession, including a few long distance shots and some missed headers but we just couldn’t get the ball in the net. We all had that feeling that one of them would go in. It wasn’t till the first overtime that Eric Robertson somehow hit a backwards header off a corner. I admit even I was confused on who scored when we all rushed the field, I ended up jumping on pops because it seemed like he scored due to the fact that he was celebrating the most.
It wasn’t our biggest win of the season; we new the score could have been by more but we were happy we won and performed well. After the game we all rushed inside and hit the showers and changed as fast as possible due to the fact, like I said, it was a Tuesday and we all needed to get back to work. Everyone was happy with the win, but at least in my mind, once I was on the bus I was thinking about the test I had the next day, and the battle against U Penn coming up. Our game against Holy Cross showed a combination of good soccer as well as intense scrapping, which was great to see.
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