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In the first meeting between these two schools, Wren took the lady jackets to the woodshed 6-1 during the monsoon last week. Tonights match up proved slightly different as a different squad took the field. AAAA's 2nd leading scorer (Caitlin Robinson) netted two scores to jump on top 2-0 before a hurricane corner moments before the break got them on the board. The visitors regrouped and scored two unanswered goals to take a 3-2 lead. With less than ten minutes to play, Robinson fed 2-time All-Region Maranda Adams for the equalizer.

Three games in a row took their toll for the over achieving jackets as Wren put three goals up in the ten minute OT period.

The game isn't as meaningful as Wando/James Island/West Ashley, but Lapf makes these write ups look interesting so I had to try.

All games are important, grasshopper. Your girls have done well. Great things await the one who perseveres.

lpaf

The 7 win season two years ago seems so far away...

R1C...
I can honestly say I enjoyed watching your game tonight! Your team really played well for the first 30 minutes of the first half and really took it to the Wren girls! It does seem though that you rely a great deal on a kick-and-run style of offense, which inevitably, in my humble opinion, hurt you once Wren settled down the ball and began scoring all of thier goals. I do think it needs to be pointed out that Wren has had a tough week as well and making it even tougher having to play your team half of the way through it. Good work with your girls! I cannot wait to watch them develop further. Does this mean that Wren is the Region 1 AAAA champions?

Nice job Coach! The future seems near for your kids! Do y'all still play Greenwood there this week? I was thinking of coming to see what you have for myself if my schedule allows. It would be great to see the future region champs!

Wren didn't look too tired to me from where I was standing! I think physically T.L. was at a disadvantage having played rival Greenwood and Easley the two nights before, compared to Wren which only had Easley (if I am not mistaken) in a game which they sat all important personnel (only a 1-0 compared to T.L.'s 7-1) victory.

From top to bottom Wren is the better skilled team and should have mopped the floor with Hanna. When being dominated in the midfield it is best to bypass that stage and play direct while allowing the midfield to be more defensive. Apparently it worked enough to jump up 2-0. Tired players and an underdeveloped bench allowed the game to slip away to the determined and well prepared opponent.

What I didn't understand why the lady hurricanes were putting so many wall passes, through balls, and field switching plays in the air when the ground would have sufficed. They had a lot of preventable turnovers...until, like you said, they started settling the ball and then it made sense to me.

With the sweep and no other competitive region foe around, the title is won. I'm proud of our region representative and look forward to watching a long playoff run and working towards the standard your squad has set. Congrats!

SP, we'll be taking the road to the Wood on Monday. If you make the trip, stop by afterwards and say "Hello".

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Congrats R1C, I would have loved to have seen the look on your face when you went up 2-0.

Hanging in there and taking them to OT is a fine accomplishment. Good luck in that first round state match up against Region 3.

Region 3 is the seventh ring of hell. We will be lucky to score a goal...

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GKT --

YOur analysis of last night's game and praise for the Hanna team sounds like a bit of a backhanded compliment to me. "Really played well for the first 30 minutes of the first half" sounds like the Jackets didn't play well for the remaining 50 minutes of regulation time, while the score, at least, suggests the game was nick and tuck throughout regulation play which ended in a tie.

lpaf

R1C
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GKT --

After further review, your post is even more offensive toward TLH than I first thought. You start by saying you "honestly" enjoyed watching the Jacket's game, as though we might not believe that you could actually like watching their play. Then we hit the infamous "you played well for the first 30 minutes part" -- implying that beyond those first 30 minutes nothing much of note was offered up by the Jackets. Next comes something I have almost never seen in a coach to coach on-line communique: (I'm assuming you were part of the Wren coaching staff since you list yourself as "teacher/coach", and GKT suggests you work training keepers) you label Hanna's style of play as a variant of boom ball ("kick-and-run style of offense" as you put it) and offer up that it probably didn't serve the Jackets well in the long run, once Wren settled down to business. Again, if the scoring as offered up by R!C is accurate, the game was back and forth throughout regulation play. Lead by TLH 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, then in the second half 2-2 (tied) then 2-3 (Wren), then finally 3-3 (tied). Sounds like Wren had difficulty dealing with the "kick-and-run style of offense", at least for the first 80 minutes of play. Of course, the 3-0 blowout in the OT periods were decisive, but overall, if I were Hanna I'd be pretty pleased to have gone from a 6-1 loss in the first match to a 3-3 regulation performance in the second meeting. "Good work with your girls! I cannot wait to watch them develop further" also has a certain "you're doing pretty well with what you've got to work with but you've got a way to go yet" ring to it. Oh well... Just a few late night musings from an insomniac graduate of Radio High. No offense intended.

lpaf