One of my favorite games while being involved with our team was the 2009 game at home against Georgetown. I don't remember too much about the game, other than that Linda scored a goal to give us the lead in a critical conference game for us.
We were winning and then, well then something really really really bad happened.
I'm not going to go through the details on this one because it could come close to home, but I must say I never felt worse for one of our players than after they let something shall we say, slip away.
We can talk about this since it's old news right?
All of a sudden it was a tie game, late in the game. We seemed to be dominating, or atleast doing better than Georgetown, if I remember correctly, but a mistake tied everything up.
Not long after though, Brittany Taylor just completely took over in a way that only she did. No other player that I watched took over like she did against Georgetown and BU in the NCAA's.
Taylor got a pass from Court just on the other side of the circle and she ran through the Hoyas. Taylor just kept going and going and you just knew she wasn't about to pass to anyone until she got near the penalty box. Taylor was unstoppable for 50 yards with the ball. She looked like a knife going through soft butter.
As Taylor neared the penalty box she passed it to Mel who was to the right of her who then chipped it over the keeper and into the far post for a beautiful goal, that would end up being the match winner.
Taylor's run and the way the team responded to the game getting tied up late makes the 2009 Georgetown game really stick out to me.
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