Field Hockey Wins, Volleyball Loses
Field Hockey Shuts Out the Hawkeyes

Minout Mink lived up to her self-hype ("I score goals.") by getting on the board again, and doing so early in the game, just 7 minutes in, on a penalty corner shot with assists to Marigrace Ragsdale and Erin McCrudden. The Cards would finish the scoring for the game in the 9th minute, with Marigrace Ragsdale doing the deed, with the feed from Stephanie Byrne down from the top of the circle to the left post.
The rest of the 60 minutes ended up being a defensive battle, but generally the Cards looked to be the better team, with 12 shots and 10 on goal, while Iowa only got 5 off, and 3 of those on goal and saved by Ayisha McFerren.

weekend, with the next best outcome going to the Men's Soccer team getting a point in the standings with a 1-1 tie at Boston College. Credit to Edwin Kibichiy for landing a first place finish in Greater Louisville Classic out at E.P. Tom Sawyer Park. If you're looking for joy and excitement this Monday morning, we can look to some of the spring sports, finishing up their fall seasons, with Softball and Lacrosse both in action over the weekend and picking up some wins.
Field Hockey heads into the meat of another homestand, with Boston College coming to visit Trager Stadium Friday for a 6pm pass back.
Volleyball Drops One to Duke
The wide net Cards continue to struggle to find the right approach as they dropped a 3 set decision against Duke Sunday afternoon at the KFC Yum! Center (25-18, 25-12, 25-21) dropping to a 5-9 record and still winless in conference.

From the outside, and in the back-row, the attacks were largely stymied. Duke claimed 9 blocks to account for part of the problems there, but the Cardinals' digging and passing just weren't very on target yesterday. Passes that were on target were largely set into the middles, while out of system passes got pushed out to outside and back row attacking which didn't meet with much success.

The Eagles are similarly struggling, at 5-9 overall, and winless in 4 attempts in conference. This one is a Thursday matchup, with a 7:30 start with no video listed as being available.
-- JMcA
What is going on with Volleyball? Do they miss Katie that much? Preseason had them as a possible fourth best team in the ACC.
ReplyDeleteIt is an adjustment year...to be sure. The team is just recently back to where the lineup Anne wants to see is out there...injuries and concussions have taken a big toll. 0-4 is certainly not the way anyone wanted to started the ACC slate obviously, but there is still time to get it back together. A #97 RPI is rough...though.
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Something else must be going on. Too much talent on that team to be folding so badly since Florida State.
ReplyDeleteVolleyball still has 16 games to get it straightened out.
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