Well I am reading an article about the New England Mutiny's game tonight by Mike Bogen.
Erin Clark had a hat trick...just have to make sure I hook you in so you will read through my rambling randomness.
http://www.masslive.com/sports/index.ssf/2009/05/new_england_mutiny_boot_maine.html
I wasn't at the game so I want to give the guy who was there watching credit for his writing. I was on the phone with family. He did a good job.
I am one of maybe 10 UConn students (at best) who knew that 6 women's soccer players from the 2008 UConn team had a game today. The non New England Mutiny member would be Stephanie Labbe...who had a game in Sweden today. She was on the Mutiny last year. Hopefully we can make 100 students aware of that by this time next year.
Apparently 842 people came to support the team in the rain. The Mutiny won 4-0. I think they should be nicknamed the Muts (only one t instead of two...playing off of the teams name) because of the current and former players and coaches with connections to UConn. They are Muts...half Mutiny, half Huskies...and probably the only team in the WPSL that had someone come up with a nick name for them at 10:40pm on a Saturday Night.
Yes my life is just that exciting.
I'm watching a painting of grass growing dry while I wait for my internship to start and for me to return to what I consider to be my home for right now...for atleast one final year...Storrs, CT.
Anyway the Mutiny won 4-0 over the Maine Tide in a game played at Northampton High School...which is not the team's typical home field. Their games are usually played in Agawam, MA, which according to Stephanie Labbe is close to Six Flags New England, a place that I've never been
But I have been to Kadoka, South Dakota. It's a place, google it if you want.
Well wouldn't you know it, Erin Clark had a hat trick. I'm not making that up because I need an excuse to put her along with Meghan Cunningham on Mount Rushmore... She scored 3 goals for the Muts.
She's accounted for 4 of the teams 6 goals in the exhibition game I heard about and the first regular season game of the year. No wonder so many little girls put her name down for goal of the game at UConn...No wonder she is Eastern Connecticut's version of Hannah Montana. This then begs the question from a marketing standpoint...do people who root for the New England Mutiny also root for UConn Women's Soccer? I'm being serious...and I'm so interested in finding out that I might just show up to a Mutiny game.
She also acted so completely surprised when I told her that people ALWAYS put her name down for goal of the game. She can score a hat-trick...that would be why they put her name down so often.
I have no idea why they seem to feel the need to yell that they are writing Erin Clark down for goal of the game as if they were praising the lord at a baptist church.
This is also great news for UConn soccer, well obviously. Playing really well in the summer against top-notch talent boosts confidence and this is a good indicator that more offense is on the way in the fall at Morrone Stadium.
The first goal of the game was scored by someone from the State of Connecticut, but has no connection to UConn.
5 of the 6 goals I know about for the Mutiny have been scored by UConn players: Erin Clark and Karen Gurnon.
They have won all the games that I know about. UConn players have scored 5 goals. Erin Clark has scored 4 of them.
This is a omen from the gods, this is a sign of good things to come. A hat trick in the rain can only mean good things.
Go UConn, Go Muts.
I'm so sorry that it takes me so long to get to the point of what I write about and that I take you down every possible detour to every word that I write.
That's why I have a blog and not a book deal.
If I get a book deal just remember that the world is coming to an end. Don't say I never warned you.
I apologize for not being serious throughout all of this post...I feel like the team deserves better, it's Saturday night though, I don't feel like being too serious now.
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