Friendly vs. College of Charleston

Last winter, UNCC faced the College of Charleston in the biggest battle of the Matrix season.  The team that won would go on to regionals, UNC-Charlotte barely scraped by with a 17-15 win.

Saturday College of Charleston travelled back to Charlotte to play a fall friendly game.  While the outcome did not matter as much as it had in the past, both teams wanted the win.  Charlotte fought hard and wouldn't allow any tries by CoC.  The final score 31-6, UNCC won by a much wider margin than 8 months ago.

MVP: Nicole Floersch

Pack Player of the Game: Victoria Ellis   Back Player of the Game: Dominique Williams

Defense Player of the Game: Maddy Clark Offense Player of the Game: Courtney Jessamy

Blood, Sweat, and Tears

Spring 2009 - ressurection was occuring after years without a team.  The typical practice held 6 players

Spring 2010 - a full-side, but still new team playing "developmental" matrix games

Today - UNCC Ladies played their first official matrix game as a real team.  The opponent - College of Charleston.  Last fall College of Charleston was ranked 24th in the Nation in Division II.  Luck was not on our side.

The team has been practicing for weeks, knowing that this game would determine whether or not we advance any further.  We had to win today or all of our dreams for Nationals would be lost.  

From the first minute, we wanted it worse than they did.  UNCC scored two tries and one conversion kick in the first 20 minutes of the game. Leaving it 12-0.  But then College of Charleston stepped in and scored a try - reminding us we had a good opponent. Scrums were spinning 90 degrees, lineouts were fights for a tap of the ball - backlines were pushed to their limit.  At the half it was 12-5.  Coming back from halftime - CoC must have had a great pep talk, because they were ready for us.    They knew they had to score two tries just to up us and that is exactly what they did.  10 minutes were left in the game when they scored that last try and with the score 12-15, UNCC women were done watching the game.  We put everything we had into those last 10 minutes.  Off of a penalty at the 22, Liz decided she had enough and took the ball for a crash and scored the final try of the game.   Minutes later the whistle blew, and the final score 17-15.

Congratulations to UNCC WRFC for playing an intense game of blood, sweat and tears.  Sometimes that is what it takes to win.

 Player of the Game: Natalie - for her tackles, kicks, and communication

Defensive: Cortney- for those tackles that saved us from losing     Offensive: Liz- for putting her heart out there

Back: Maddy- for leading both the backs and the team       Pack: Vic- for making tackle after tackle