{"id":6414,"date":"2017-10-04T00:45:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T08:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=6414"},"modified":"2017-10-03T20:51:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T04:51:56","slug":"wolves-hungry-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wolves-hungry-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves hungry for win"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stephanie Blair | Editor-in-Chief<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Sept. 26 and 30, Wolves\u2019 soccer played their last two home games before heading out on the road for three weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Concordia, Western\u2019s opponent on Sept. 26, came into the game with a 355-minute shut out. They left with that record extended by 90 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though sophomore goalkeeper Caitlin Kastelic made five saves throughout the game, she was unable to stop three of Concordia\u2019s shots over the course of the 90-minute game. The Wolves fell against Concordia, 0-3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Wolves started out strong on Sept. 30 in their match against Seattle Pacific; junior forward Amber Whitmore scored the first point of the game in minute 22, with an assist from first-year midfielder Alexie Morris. They held a 1-0 lead going into the second half.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It looked as though the Wolves would taste victory and end their 20-day drought, until the Falcons\u2019 Kasey Reeve scored in the 83rd minute of the game. After seven more minutes of back and forth with no goals made, the game launched into overtime. However, there was no resolution in the additional 10-minutes of game play provided, forcing the game into double-overtime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After 102 minutes of play, the game was decided by a goal for Seattle Pacific, making the final score of 1-2 in favor of the Falcons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Post-match on Sept. 30, the Wolves have a conference record of 0-4-1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Wolves return to Western\u2019s soccer field on Oct. 21 to face Saint Martin\u2019s University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at journaleditor@wou.edu<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Blair | Editor-in-Chief On Sept. 26 and 30, Wolves\u2019 soccer played their last two home games before heading out on the road for three weeks. Concordia, Western\u2019s opponent on Sept. 26, came into the game with a 355-minute shut out. They left with that record extended by 90 minutes. Though sophomore goalkeeper Caitlin Kastelic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1017,"featured_media":6415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}