Dear Diary,

Last Sunday was the start of our journey to the conference tournament. With nine games under our belt (6-3-0), we were ready for whatever Nicholls was going to throw at us. Sunday finally arrived and we came away with our first conference win (7-3-0)! With the rain pouring from the beginning of the match to the end, our field became a mine field of puddles and was all around muddy. Let’s just say that our white jerseys were no longer white. But that didn’t stop our lion pride from stepping up to the challenge. Nicholls came out hard the first ten minutes of the match but we counter with two goals in the first half. Second half we came out with the fire we gained from the first and had several close misses. Although Nicholls did score we held them to the one goal for the rest of the match. The final score was 2-1.

Since the rain was relentless and made our field a mess, we had to change our practice schedule around, which isn’t a big deal when you’re dealing with Louisiana weather year round. We had to do this several times already this year but instead of practice at night due to class conflicts, we had it in the morning before the sun was even up and for most of the team. We managed to get our bodies to moving at such an early time, I mean 4:30am is early for us to get up to get treatment or taped (if needed) then warm up for practice. You would be surprise at the level of intensity we had so early in the morning, even though some of us don’t remember practice because we weren’t all fully awake. It was like we were on auto-pilot.

With two high intensity practices this week, we hit the road to Texas to take on Sam Houston and SFA. I’m looking forward to our usual bus sing-a-longs and random dancing. As for now, we are ready as we will ever be for this weekend.

GO LIONS!!

Lacey GK #8
P.S. SQUIRREL!