Portland-Texas A&M, September 17

Frankly I was surprised at how much better the ladies were technically than A&M. They are very good athletes but they were overmatched when the ball was on the ground.

Ditto on the Sophie comment. I thought she played one of her better games last night.

They all played one of their better games last night.

And, they did not do one of their "let's get a feel for what's going on" starts. They came out firing on all cylinders right from the beginning. I'm betting that is something they learned from last year.

UPS you are right the whole team stepped up last night. I was very impressed with the way they all played. No let up, kept on charging a thing of beauty to watch.

Another fan and I were talking about it it after the game and thought that Rutgers actually played better game against us than TAMU did (better passing, disrupting our plays, more dangerous scoring opportunities, etc.). Did anyone else notice that?

Also, what's up with Boston College being ranked so high? They have only played one decent team (Stanford) and yet they are ranked #4 in three polls and #3 in one poll. Graham Hayes seems to really like them this year, too.

Okay, so BC just beat Rutgers by a bigger margin than we did. Maybe they are pretty good.

Our margin would have been the same if not for an UGE (unusual goalkeeper event).

I agree with fwill that Rutgers played UP tougher than A&M -- as shown by the number of shots for taken and yielded by those opponents. Rutgers had more ball possession than TAMU as well. May they both win out the regular season to make the Pilot victories even more impressive.

I hadn't noticed this on the UP site before:



Enjoy.

Thanks Geez. That was like the best of the highlights. I did not get a good look at the goal and this was a perfect angle. Also the defensive intensity was very evident. I was so impressed with Elli's game. Also Sophie and Keelin played great as did the rest of the team. This was just a very satisfying win!!