Ohio Northern vs. Capital 16-10

Matt Wilder, your lacrosse student-athlete with this week’s blog. Today I will be talking about our game

against Capital University. This game was a must-win if we wanted a shot at getting a bye-week for

playoffs. We needed to not only beat Capital but also beat Baldwin Wallace the following Wednesday.

We came into this game a little nervous, but deep down we all knew we would beat them. If you don't

know Capital lacrosse, then let me enlighten you. They take a bunch of cheap shots; they yell and curse

at you and even disrespect our coaching staff. Hearing that, I bet you know how the game went down.

We came out of the gates slow and allowed them to score a decent amount on us early. They even were

up 1 goal at the half which was not good because we let their shooters heat up. Luckily, our coach yelled

at us in the locker room and put into perspective how important this game was because we were the

better team. When we came back to the field we went to work and slowly beat down Capital. We even

got them screaming at each other. We started to gain a big lead and surprisingly they gave up playing

hard and just started screaming at our team. A few players even went as far as to curse out our coach.

That didn't end well for them because our coach went right back at the player and then their coach for

allowing that. It was ugly, but a win is a win, and this win was awesome.

Comments

  1. keith houserMay 4, 2022 at 6:29 PM

    Its never fails each season that there are good wins and ugly wins but at least you got the win. Go Bears!!

    ReplyDelete

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