Friday night started off another home weekend against conference opponents Millsaps and Birmingham Southern. We had been training throughout the week with Millsaps on our mind as they would be the first team we would face. While we intend to keep perspective of preparing for the upcoming match on our schedule, the primary focus is one of readying ourselves for our game and standard.
6 pm came and the whistle blew...it wouldn't take us too long to find the back of the net as Abby battled into the box drawing defenders and slotted Lindsey on a little overlap. Unfortunately, we would not have much more to say about the first half of play other than a large amount of the possession and a few half-chances. There was a call for a lift of energy and quality during the second half and that is exactly what would transpire.
Danika found some space near the top of the box and smashed one by the keeper in the second minute of the second half. A little over three minutes later, Abby found Kelly for the third goal of the game. 26 SECONDS later, Abby would take a feed from Jordan and claim a goal of her own. Kelly returned the favor to Abby nine minutes after Abby's first goal as she assisted her second tally. The trade-off would continue a couple minutes later as Kelly claimed her second goal of the match and Abby notched her third assist. Abby nearly had a "hat" full of assists AND goals, but the Millsaps goalkeeper made a nice save to prevent the double-triple. with under five minutes to go, Hannah snuck into the mouth of the goal and took a couple of redirects to score the extra point of the night taking the count to seven.
With the previous year's result being 1-0, we were pleased with our offensive production, as well as holding them without a single shot. We expected Birmingham Southern to be a tougher test on Sunday and were going to need to refocus rather quickly.
-LK
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