Stacie Twehues

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November 3, 2003

Last weekend full of "food in the body" and soccer, not much different from any other weekend.

It started last Thursday night with the annual Fox household dinner. Both the men's and the women's teams arrived to the house hungry for a home-cooked meal. We ate enormous amounts of chicken, steak, salad, and cake, leaving us completely satisfied. It is very generous of the Foxes to do this every year for us, and we appreciate it so much. It's a wonderful pre-game meal, to say the least.

Friday night was the beginning of three important games for us. If we were to win all three, there was the possibility we could win the UAA and its automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. As Sabo said, the "door was open" for us to take advantage of this opportunity.

While we played hard the entire game, it came down to Brandeis scoring within the first three minutes of the game. We could not finish our chances, it just wasn't there for us, and we lost 2-0. We left that game knowing that our chances of making the NCAA tournament were virtually gone.

It is very disheartening to know that our season is almost over, not being able to look forward to the NCAA tournament. It was important for us as a team to go out the next two games and put everything we had into them.

Friday night's loss was in the back of our minds as we traveled to Sabo's house for dinner. Because we had two conference games, many of the parents came in from out of town to see the games, and to meet the rest of the team and other parents.

There was a large gathering at Sabo's house, almost 80 people, with a team of 29 girls. Our parents are extremely supportive, and were happy to be a part of this annual dinner. While there, we again had large amounts of "food in the body," and were also able to watch a video from Australia.

Sabo took a video camera with him on our preseason trip in August, filming almost everything we did while traveling around. It was fun and entertaining for those of us who were on the trip; those who did not go got the chance to see what we did. Overall, the evening was a good one, and again, we left satisfied and full of food, a motto on our team.

We arrived Sunday prepared to play and beat NYU. While they had not won a game in the conference, anything can happen in conference games and we wanted to be sure to win. We were able to win 2-0 on great goals by Jenny Sale and Jenna Kereiakes. It was great that we were able to pull together as a team, after losing on Friday night, and come through with a win Sunday.

We now enter the last week of the regular season with our final game on Saturday against Carnegie Mellon. While it may be our last game, we hope that maybe something will happen that would allow us to enter post-season play.

Stacie Twehues is a senior from Ft. Thomas, Ky. She would love to answer e-mail questions from Emory recruits and fans.