Oregon/Washington Games

Two big games coming up this weekend against Oregon and UW. I'm wondering if others are as on edge about these games as I am. After the build up to last weekend, the Pilots will need to be sure there's no let up.

I'm also wondering whether Sophie will be available for the games. Canada has been in camp this week and plays China on Thursday, but a check of Canada's roster for the game shows Sophie is not on it. I hope that means she will be playing in this weekend's games. I did notice after the Stanford game that she went from player to player, making contact with each of them. Great captaining, but I wondered if it also meant she might be flying to Canada right after the game and thus away from the Pilots for a couple of days.

I don't think either opponent can be taken lightly.

Leslie Gallimore talking about last weekend matches and a very little bit about the Portland match
http://www.youtube.com/UWAthletics#p/u/1/xY3DFncZcTI

Washington received 2 players on the Top Drawer Women's Team of the week, both defenders.
http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer/college-soccer-archives/nid-16328/Eagles-now-#1;%20Nuzzolese%20and%20Stengel%20POTW
Sounds like their defense may be toughening up.

When They were here for our tournament, I enjoyed watching their freshman left back Lindsy Bos.

Boundless energy, Good speed, a little gangly, but she is a real competitor. Gallimore got a good one there.

A little something to get you fired up for Friday...

Ther's a pretty funny tweet war going on between @PortlandPilots and @Strongatnight over Friday's game between the ducks and the Pilots.

it seems John Strong is predicting a Ducks upset.

Does he know that the Ducks haven't beaten UP since the Pilots were an NAIA team?

http://twitter.com/strongatnight

He's a Sports talk guy, their job is to say silly things and get folks fired up.

I wondered about Strong's connection to U of O and got this from Wikipedia:

"...While attending University of Oregon, Strong worked at 750 KXL in Portland and was active at the school's campus station, KWVA. Strong continued his play-by-play work by broadcasting University of Oregon women's soccer, softball, and women's lacrosse."

Busted...

Strong might know something about soccer, but predictions from the fringe don't fly here.

I don't know if Strong will even be there tomorrow since he and I will be out of the country on business Saturday.....

Stonehouse wrote:A little something to get you fired up for Friday...

Perfect.

Oh! Fortuna.

I wonder if the guy who did the video knew Carmina Burana is at the Keller or just picked it out of the air.

Food and Beer for this weekend:
Did I hear right that tonights match has the Ocktober Fest Beer Garden and Sunday will have the Pulled Pork Sliders? YUM! Too bad we can't get them for the same match...

FINAL UP 4, U-0 1

Overall, a good night for the Pilots. A decisive win over Oregon, with four different players scoring. No Pilots injured, so far as we could see. Lots of players got to play.

As for the Pilots' opponents:

Cal State Northridge 2, UC Davis 1
SMU 1, East Carolina 0
Texas A&M 1, Kansas 0
Loyola Marymount 1, CS Fullerton 0
Oklahoma Sate 2, Missouri 1
Rutgers 2, Connecticut 0
San Diego 1, USC 0 (San Diego sweeps home/away pair with USC)
Pepperdine 1, UCLA 0
Portland State 1, Utah Valley 1
San Francisco 0, Northern Arizona 1
Syracuse 0, Notre Dame 3
Gonzaga 0, Washington State 4

Overall the Pilots' opponents went 8-3-1 for the day. (Did I get all of them that played games today?)

Let's have another great day on Sunday. The Huskies, by the way, had no game tonight. So, getting some rest for a lot of the Pilots was a good thing.