By: Paul Davis

Freelancer

The Western soccer team lost their seventh game, against Saint Martin’s University on Thursday Oct. 10, 3-4.

The first half was a slugfest. Neither team dominated the other. In the 12th minute, star player Taylor Higa, scored the only goal of the half with an unassisted shot to the lower left corner of the goal, a shot that the goalie had no chance of reaching.

The second half of the game, however, was a stunner. In the fourth minute of the second half SMU forward, Hannah Frakes, scored a header off of a corner kick to equalize the game.
Then a high scoring back-and-forth began. In the 67th minute, the Wolves scored another goal thanks again to Taylor Higa. Six minutes later SMU struck back and equalized the game again.

Both teams scored another goal in the last 10 minutes of the game; Western in the 81st minute and SMU in the 88th. But sadly, 49 seconds into extra-time SMU forward, Kelli Bannerman, ended the game by scoring a goal by kicking the ball over Western’s goalkeeper’s head to end the game with a loss for our ladies.

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