Thursday, November 5, 2009

Semifinal Upsets Create Historical MIAA Final

Up until this year, no team seeded lower than third had advanced to play in the championship game of the MIAA women's soccer tournament. On Saturday, two teams seeded lower than third will battle for the tournament championship and an NCAA Division III Tournament berth, as fourth-seeded Kalamazoo (8-6-4) hosts sixth-seeded Albion (9-4-5) at noon. In Tuesdays's semifinals, the Hornets stunned top-seeded Calvin in a shootout, 3-1, after the two teams played to a scoreless tie through two overtimes. Meanwhile, the Britons eliminated second-seed Adrian, 1-0, in overtime.
The preceding was taken from the conference's website, (always important to cite the appropriate sources, www.miaa.org)

Thursday training consisted of a variety of activities.  The warm-up focused on headers and once the team was able to get a stretch they played a 2v2 heading game in which Senior's Katie Manstrom and Anja Burk would be declared champions after three rounds of play.  Then 10 minutes rehearsing a number of set pieces.  After the set pieces the team moved on to a 4v4+3 ball winning activity.  This progressed into 15 minutes of 10v10 with a focus on finding the midfielders feet.  Practice would end with five minutes of breakaway fitness and PKs.  Less than 48hrs until Saturday's kick-off.  Coach Roschek (A K grad) from Albion was on campus for conference business even had a chance to walk the field and proclaimed, "It's in great shape!"

GO HORNETS!!!

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