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It appears that I should have gone slightly higher in my exageration of saves to remove any doubt that I was merely being jovial. Meghan Hughes had 19 and kept a large loss from becoming larger. With a sophomore at sweeper and two freshmen at backs, she's done more than her share all year. Mauldin vs. Dutch Fork/Wando/Summerville/West Ashley is my guess in that order. I'm sure you will all agree my selections are completely validated seeing how I haven't seen a single mentioned team play this year, save Mauldin.

I've seen Dutch Fork, Summerville, and Wando.
From those three, I'd go with Wando. Very organized and disciplined team play. Apparently very well coached.

coastal 14 (still dont know who you are) - thanks again. yea.. against the GA girls was tough.. they took 56 shots.. made 4.. i had 52 saves. BC was really good. it was a tough game, and we played our hardest. that was the best we could do.

hey my career high is 27 saves a gam. but this season i played 8 games and had 176 saves.

I would have to agree with gkeeper12 in that a keeper's ability is not determined by the number of saves that she makes. My team tends to make keepers look very good by shooting it straight to the keeper and in those kinds of games I rarely touch the ball. A keeper's ability should be based on the quality of the saves she makes and how well she organizes her defense so that she only has to make the minimum amount of saves because her defense is doing their job. I would have to say that it is about quality not quantity!

It's not fair to judge a keeper by their saves. One, teams sometimes shoot directly at the keeper. Two, if your teams defending well, then you shouldn't have to make a lot of saves. That's partly the keepers job b/c they should be directing play and stopping potential shooting opportunities before they start by directing the defense.

i do agree that quantity is better then quality, and im not saying that the number of saves reflects a keepers ability. i was just curious...

***quality is better than quantity***
sorry, typo on my last post