We headed out of Ames on Saturday after beating the hell outta Iowa State and headed over to Lincoln for the real weekend match-up!
Let me preface this re-cap with a short description of the actual surroundings. The Nebraska complex is about 10 miles from campus. It’s in the middle of nowhere on a filed right by a river that must be filled with dead animals because that’s the way this place smelled. Of the 500 fans there I would say a good 40 were friends and family of Aggies. The saddest part was there were about zero actual Nebraska students. I couldn’t believe when the biggest Big 12 rival was coming to town with some serious conference title implications on the line there were still no students.
The first half the team looked slow and made short passes. I think a lot had to do with the field itself. The grass was much thicker and pretty tall which made the ball so slow. Normal passes that would roll out of bounds would just stop at the line. The Nebraska goal was a breakdown on a corner. Number 20, who played for SMU, just plowed in off the top of the box and headed it in over Katie Jo. Great play, we should’ve had her marked. After the goal we slowly brought on the offensive fire power. Although we hadn’t scored by the end of the first half I think everyone in the stands knew it was going to happen.
The second half was pure brilliance. We played some amazing offense! Passes were crisp – we were in all the right places – and Nebraska was playing a flat four back the whole game. Hard to score on… Ashley’s goal was amazing. She settled the ball shook a few defenders and just beat the goalie on the bottom right corner. It was awesome – and the 40 plus A&M fans sounded like about 300 after that. The offense continued with most of the second half being played on the Husker end. Carrie’s goal was outta no where! Off a corner the goalie punched it out right to her. She settled and from about 20 yards out on the right corner of the penalty box she volleyed it right over the goalie’s head. At this point we were going nuts.
There were two questionable goals in the game. Once for A&M when Amy’s shot rocketed off the crossbar and bounced straight down – most likely hitting the line – and the same happened late after we scored our second goal. Neither were called goals, but I think both were.
It was a great road win and the girls certainly deserved it! I had never been to a road soccer game other than those in the state of Texas. I was surprised at the comments and taunting we received from the Nebraska fans. These included crying noises when we complained about a bad call – or telling us we should be ashamed of ourselves. I finally for frustrated enough to tell them to, “not be mad that we travel well.” Once we got ahead I reminded them to not cry when they lose. I figured soccer fans would appreciate a good game, when in fact it seemed like they were still bitter about the football game against Tech.
Good luck to the girls with the final three games! Kansas should be the biggest test we have left and hopefully I’ll be able to make it down!
Let me preface this re-cap with a short description of the actual surroundings. The Nebraska complex is about 10 miles from campus. It’s in the middle of nowhere on a filed right by a river that must be filled with dead animals because that’s the way this place smelled. Of the 500 fans there I would say a good 40 were friends and family of Aggies. The saddest part was there were about zero actual Nebraska students. I couldn’t believe when the biggest Big 12 rival was coming to town with some serious conference title implications on the line there were still no students.
The first half the team looked slow and made short passes. I think a lot had to do with the field itself. The grass was much thicker and pretty tall which made the ball so slow. Normal passes that would roll out of bounds would just stop at the line. The Nebraska goal was a breakdown on a corner. Number 20, who played for SMU, just plowed in off the top of the box and headed it in over Katie Jo. Great play, we should’ve had her marked. After the goal we slowly brought on the offensive fire power. Although we hadn’t scored by the end of the first half I think everyone in the stands knew it was going to happen.
The second half was pure brilliance. We played some amazing offense! Passes were crisp – we were in all the right places – and Nebraska was playing a flat four back the whole game. Hard to score on… Ashley’s goal was amazing. She settled the ball shook a few defenders and just beat the goalie on the bottom right corner. It was awesome – and the 40 plus A&M fans sounded like about 300 after that. The offense continued with most of the second half being played on the Husker end. Carrie’s goal was outta no where! Off a corner the goalie punched it out right to her. She settled and from about 20 yards out on the right corner of the penalty box she volleyed it right over the goalie’s head. At this point we were going nuts.
There were two questionable goals in the game. Once for A&M when Amy’s shot rocketed off the crossbar and bounced straight down – most likely hitting the line – and the same happened late after we scored our second goal. Neither were called goals, but I think both were.
It was a great road win and the girls certainly deserved it! I had never been to a road soccer game other than those in the state of Texas. I was surprised at the comments and taunting we received from the Nebraska fans. These included crying noises when we complained about a bad call – or telling us we should be ashamed of ourselves. I finally for frustrated enough to tell them to, “not be mad that we travel well.” Once we got ahead I reminded them to not cry when they lose. I figured soccer fans would appreciate a good game, when in fact it seemed like they were still bitter about the football game against Tech.
Good luck to the girls with the final three games! Kansas should be the biggest test we have left and hopefully I’ll be able to make it down!