We had a great win against an athletic Archbishop Carroll team today. Shout out to Carroll's goalie -she did an outstanding job today!

We have been trying to put pieces together over the first few weeks of the season. Each game we put together one of the pieces. Today it started to feel like the pieces were coming together.

Carroll scored first. Their attacker received the ball in the middle of the box and she turned on our defender and scored a nice goal with 32:23 left in the first half. However, I was still speaking to the girls on the bench after the goal when Quinn Rozanski sent a ball ahead to Evie O'Brien to score an equalizer just 19 seconds later. Our girls have gotten really good at bouncing back and not hanging their head after a goal is scored against us. I am really proud of their resilience!

In the second half Carroll came out aggressively. I felt like our defense did a good job absorbing the initial aggression and then settled into a really nice game of possession. The score remained tied until 16:31 left in the game when Izzy O'Brien sent a great corner kick into the box to Gabby Sellecchia's foot and Gabby finessed it into the back of the net. Then our girls really played a disciplined last quarter to hold Carroll to the one goal.

Shout out: Senior Goalie Giuls Fogarty had a really strong game. She made good decisions and communicated really well.

Junior Jordyn Fox played a really smart game in the middle of the field. She helped us move the ball without being predictable in her attack.

Junior Defender Izzy O'Brien was a really steady presence in our back line, using her speed against Carroll's attack.

Sophomore Emma Leibert put tons of pressure on Carroll's back line. She is so strong and works so hard, she constantly frustrated them.