We knew Kristine Lilly was good, but we didn’t know one of her shots could knock out the stadium lights. Just minutes after Lilly put the USA up 2-0, all the stadium lights at the Home Depot Center went dark. Poof! The outage didn’t seem to faze the U.S. team, or referee Kari Seitz, as the match went on without a hitch with the final five minutes being played in twilight. (Said U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo: “My eyes adjusted quickly.”) Remember your youth club practices when your coach made you train right up until you couldn’t make out who was on your team in the small-sided game? Well, we were about 10 minutes from that, but the HDC staff did well to quickly get the lights back on and the second half started without delay, no doubt making the folks at ESPN happy. Apparently, a “rolling power outage” hit the HDC, but a stop on the Warped Tour 2007 was taking place all day in the parking lot outside the stadium and anyone who knows their Sum 41 from their Flogging Molly knows that those bands play it hard and play it loud, and that had to suck some serious watts or volts or whatever units of measurement we measure electricity in. Meanwhile, inside the stadium, the U.S. team was rockin’ and rollin’, getting goals second half goals from Lindsay Tarpley and Heather O’Reilly.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
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Abby's toe is critical for her good performance. US has to know that their opponents key on Abby being on her game. Against the Finn's, with Abby out, the Finn's went clueless, besided scoreless, on how to deal with the US depth. Where was the big woman they planned to defend? The last 65 minutes of the match went tob plan 'B', but looked like a plan 'A'. This must be pretty scary to the other teams in group B. I say mix it up with Abby - SWE, PRK and NGA won't know what hit 'em. Just a thought.
Hahah Kristine Lily's way tooo powerful!
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