CIS Women’s Soccer Championship Blog – Day 5

LANGLEY, B.C. – Day 5 from Room 129

Room 129 here,

Today started off when we were startled into wakefulness by our extremely loud and annoying wake up call via the phone. After grudgingly opening our eyes and stumbling around for a few minutes we each went our separate ways to find some breakfast. A short while later we reunited in our room to settle down for some quiet time before the big game. But quiet time was soon stricken from the agenda when we heard muffled yells and screeches coming from across the hall. Turned out our rowdy cross-hall teammates got a little hyper and decided to jump on the beds a little wildly, squishing each other in the process. Definitely a good way to be side tracked from quiet time. We have hilarious teammates.

At 11:25am we loaded into our vans all dressed in our badger red and made the short trip to Trinity Western. We were pleasantly surprised upon discovery that our “change room” (which on Wednesday was a little empty, unheated wood lined trailer with no power) was now equipped with scattered chairs, heating and electricity! But much to our chagrin we realized that we had left our boom box behind because we were not expecting the electricity. So we listened to our bumpin' beats from Senorita's stuffed elephant which doubles as a speaker system. After the entire team joined in singing “Our Song” by Taylor Swift our coaches came in to give us a short pre-game speech which was followed by our traditional singing of the Moose Song lead by Senorita. We were ready. We trudged out to the field with our game faces on and had a great warm up in surprisingly good weather; no rain!

The game was a battle through and through. We give credit where credit is due: Montreal was a great team, very physical, strong on the ball and lightning quick. But they were no match for us! Sloan started off the scoring in the first half with a nicely lofted ball over the Carabin keeper's outstretched arms. We battled through the rest of the game each team having great chances (another credit to Montreal for hitting two crossbars). But it would be Laura's perfectly placed free kick midway through the second half that would carry us to the victory! We left the field thoroughly beat up and exhausted but with smiling faces, proud of our 2-0 win. The Brock Badgers, underdogs of the tournament, are going to play for the gold medal tomorrow!

Upon arrival back at our hotel at 3:30pm we all went our separate ways, some going to get food, some showering, some calling loved ones…and other passing out on the comfy beds. We then had free time for a few hours which was spent doing homework, relaxing and mingling in each other's rooms. At 6:00pm we had our daily team meeting where we discussed today's game and set the agenda for tomorrow. It is 8:00pm now and we are going to a late team dinner at 8:45pm which will be most kindly purchased by our wonderful athletic director Lorne Adams! What a pleasant surprise! After dinner is bed time and I'm sure we will have no complaints…it's tiring being national finalists. ;)

Update on tomorrow's game: we will be playing Trinity Western on their home turf at 3:30pm! None of us could be more pumped. We worked so hard to get to this point and we plan on ending our season on the ultimate high note. So bust out your shamrocks and horse shoes (not that we really need them!) and think of us tomorrow. We're going to the Ship!

You know you love us,
xoxo,
Room 129.
Rachael Hood, Steph White and Maddy Roca