By Tim Prahl
For those who check this site regularly, sorry for not having anything posted for a while. We had some login issues that should now be fixed.
Anywho, here’s what went down this past weekend…
- Sarah Hagen continued to kick some serious ass. The sophomore scored five goals in 133 minutes of action in two games. Wow. On her third goal on Friday night Hagen appeared to astound even herself, as she threw up her arms in wonder after flicking a loft into the box to the top-left corner, leaving the keeper no chance to get a finger to it.
- The rest of the women’s soccer team is pretty good too. Winning two games by a combined score of 14-1 isn’t too bad. Add on that seven different people were able to find the back of the net for the Panthers, and that shows this team has some pretty decent depth. The two blowout wins certainly gave the starters some much-needed rest and allowed many youngsters some quality game-time experience. I’d say it was a good weekend.
- The men’s soccer team had only one game but extended their unbeaten streak to four games when they beat visiting Loyola 2-1 on Saturday. Coach Coleman hasn’t seen this kind of consistent success since his first year on campus. It makes this week’s lone match-up with perennial national power-house UIC a real attention-getter.
- The real note-worthiness of this weekend doesn’t come from the success on the soccer field, however; it comes from the downfall on the volleyball court. The volleyball team hit the road for four games, trying to rebound from their first home-loss in 38 matches. The result? An epic fail. Susie Johnson’s squad suffered four straight losses, two of them in 0-3 fashion. These kind of results haven’t been seen at UWM since…well, since long before I enrolled here. The team has two home matches this weekend against UIC on Friday & Loyola on Saturday.
- Ah yes, and Sarah Hagen won another Horizon League Player of the Week award, marking the fourth-straight time (record) she has won said award and the seventh overall (record). She was also named TopDrawerSoccer.com’s National Team of the Week, a first for the Appleton native.
Seriously Tim–what’s wrong with your word retrieval? Skip all the swearing and tell the story–or better yet–get out of the way and let the story unfold–minus the vulgarities–readers will begin to think we lack creative imagination.