In the second game of the preseason Lafayette avenged a spring defeat by the Monmouth Hawks. On the backs of an already stout defense Lafayette came from behind with only 1 minute 49 seconds left on the clock. The Leopards had pulled their goal keeper with 4 minutes to go in the game and were able to take control with about 2 minutes left turning around a Monmouth attack. The Leopards managed to get to the attacking circle earning a penalty corner.
Rather than try to be fancy, the feed from Linda Nova. went directly to Lena Thedrian who delivered a rocket to the back of the net, the game ended after regulation time and they went to overtime. At about 4 minutes in to overtime Laila Pasic tipped in her second goal of the preseason sealing a victory.
Since this was practice game, play continued for the remainder of the 10 minute period. Both teams retired and began to set up for shoot out practice. Although it wasn’t as sharp as they would have liked they put in more goals than the Hawks.
Lena Thedrian again had a very good game making multiple defensive saves while scoring the equalizer with less than two minutes left. Sophmore Laila Pasic continues to find the back of net in this preseason.
I don’t want to diminish the effort by the rest of the team as all games are a team effort and our Leopards continue to look deep and skilled. However, this is not the regular season yet and these game don’t count and the team is going to get better……and so are their opponents.
Next up is Albany on Sunday, another stern test for the Leopards!!
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