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Simson Garcia | Sports Editor<\/span><\/p>\n A chance at playing Mexico\u2019s under-20 World Cup team came knocking for Western\u2019s women’s soccer team as the two squads squared off in an exhibition match on May 23 at the University of Oregon\u2019s Pape Field. Mexico’s roster consists of some of the top national players in the country who will play in this summer\u2019s FIBA U20 World Cup in France. <\/span><\/p>\n Mexico also visited the University of Oregon Ducks on May 19 on the same field in 1-0 defeat.<\/span><\/p>\n “I think that this game taught us that soccer is its own community,\u201d said Dana Jacobs, junior defender. \u201cThrough our coaches\u2019s connections we got to play against a world-renowned national team \u2014 something most people in DII don\u2019t get to experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Mexico scored on and often but Western’s team stayed on the ball and maximized their effort all the way until the horn blew. Western had a difficult time getting scores off attempts at Mexico\u2019s golden glove goalkeeper Miriam Aguirre. The Wolves couldn\u2019t contend with cross shots and the speed to get it down from one end to the other by Mexico. Despite losing the game, a few of Western\u2019s players said it was a very opportune experience. <\/span> Having few players at the age of 21, most of Western\u2019s roster was of comparable age and experience compared to Mexico\u2019s team. When asked if the unique matchup taught the Wolves anything about themselves, sophomore defender Kaitlin Poe answered: \u201cThis type of match taught us the importance of work ethic and really just makes us all around better players being able to play the best players our age from Mexico.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Contact the author at journalsports@wou.edu<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Photo courtesy of: wouwolves.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Simson Garcia | Sports Editor A chance at playing Mexico\u2019s under-20 World Cup team came knocking for Western\u2019s women’s soccer team as the two squads squared off in an exhibition match on May 23 at the University of Oregon\u2019s Pape Field. Mexico’s roster consists of some of the top national players in the country who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":7869,"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-7900","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\/7900","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\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>“To me it was a really cool experience, not everyone gets to play a national team,\u201d commented Kaili Brundage, sophomore midfielder. <\/span><\/p>\n