Tashi plays old teammate.
Natasha and the U of Louisville field hockey Cardinals beat Stanford 4-1 Sunday in a game played at the University of Maryland. Tash and the Cards played very well against 12th ranked Stanford. Tash played against former teammate, senior Rachel Mozenter, who plays forward for Stanford. Since Tash is the Cardinal’s left back, the two had a number of great battles. Rachel was a high school freshman when our oldest daughter Miranda was a senior field hockey captain at Columbus Academy. By the time Rachel was a senior at Academy, Tash had made the varsity as a freshman. When Rachel gave her Columbus Academy junior speech, she honored Miranda by stating that when she was a freshman field hockey player and having a hard time trying to compete at the varsity level, Miranda called her after a summer practice and reassured her and told her to hang in there. She said that call made a big difference in her life.
Tash and the Cardinals, 14th ranked, head to Providence, R.I. this weekend to play in the Big East tournament. They play UConn in a semifinal Saturday with the winner to play the winner of the Syracuse/Providence semifinal. The final is Sunday with the winner getting an automatic bid to the 16-team NCAA field. Louisville, which made the NCAA last year, may need to win the Big East Tournament (or, at least, do extremely well) to make it to the Big Dance. The selections are made one week from today. The Cards lost to Syracuse 3-2 and then lost at UConn in double OT during the season. The Cards are playing there best hockey now, however.
Go Team Cardinal!
Clarissa preparing for state semifinal.
Clarissa and the Columbus Academy Vikings are getting ready to play defending champ Hathaway Brown (“HB”) in the state semifinal at noon Friday at Upper Arlington. If successful, the championship game is Saturday afternoon against the winner of the Bishop Watterson/Cincinnati St. Ursula semifinal. The Vikings lost to HB 3-1 in last year’s state title game when Tashi and Clarissa were teammates. HB, 13-3-1, has pretty much its entire team back so it will be a challenge. The Vikes, 13-3-2, beat Watterson 1-0 in OT and were tied by St. Ursula 1-1 during the season. Both of those games were on the road.
Go Team Viking!
