wlaxnut wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2019 5:29 am
seacoaster wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2019 12:07 pm
And...we have an announcer who will not permit more than three seconds of empty air.
8-5 BC at the half. Good game.
14-8 BC Final. Pretty impressive road win for the Eagles. There really isn't anyone better than BC's No. 2.
I didn't see a 6 goal difference coming. BC was in control pretty much the whole game. Once they got the lead, they seemed to take care of it well. Very patient on offense. Abbey Ngai again making some significant saves. What a revelation she's been. Lauren who?
Agreed on Apuzzo. Not only a great goal scorer and draw control winner, but my! What a fierce rider she is. When your team's best player rides like that, it establishes a high standard for the rest of the team.
Yes, I do think Daly is a good goalie, but that Ngai is a bit better at stopping the ball. Pretty nice for BC to have a backup who has played in a few national semifinals and two national championships.
I was surprised by the goal difference in the end too. But I thought for a while that the game might have gone either way, say when UNC closed to 11-8 and had a couple of chances to narrow the gap further. But BC is really very experienced all over the field, and their defense is very good. No. 3 Miller played most of this game with a yellow -- and she played super smart, super controlled. No. 33, No. 28 and No. 8 played really good games for BC, and Arsenault, No. 18, may be the best defender that BC has. That's five very able defenders -- and it showed, holding UNC to 3 goals (3 goals? RUFKM?) in the second half, and a goal less than BC gave up to Albany a few days ago. No. 11 for BC had two really crucial goals to close out the first half. We talk, understandably, about Sam. But the supporting cast is very good, and they are somewhere between very well and exceptionally well coached.
Barring an upset or a stupid draw from the NCAA, we should see these two teams play again for either the right to play for all the marbles, or the marbles themselves.