Thursday, October 10, 2019
Pennsbury 6, Pennsbury 1

It was a beautiful day for field hockey and the Pennsbury Falcons took advantage of every moment. The game against Truman was the highly anticipated Senior recognition game - a time to celebrate the seven seniors’ field hockey journey and honor their hearts as amazingly strong young women. After pre-game festivities including trumpeters from the PHS band, seniors Casey Glynn, Julianna Martin, Cindy Budzinski, Keira Korzeb, Nicole Joniak, Celia Dolan, and Sammie Tosh took the field with bright smiles and high energy kicking the Falcons into gear and helping to enter halftime with a 3-0 lead. Junior, Kayli Williams connected first on an assist from Sophia Hitchingham and then Budzinski scored on an assist from Martin about a minute later. Junior, Maddy Spratt, added another goal on a beautiful cross from Glynn. Senior, Nicole Joniak, played incredible step up defense and moved her way into the offensive end to provide a great assist for Maddy Spratt to open up the second half. With the Falcons ahead 4-0, the focus shifted to maximizing improvement in the small details of the game - challenging ourselves against the clock, talking more, taking fast accurate free hits, switching fields, forcing penalty corners, and then fine tuning corner plays. There is always room for learning, growing, and improving in every situation and that is what we were emphasizing today. Julianna Martin notched a goal, assisted by Hitchingham and Budzinski added her second of the game during a corner to round out the scoring for the Falcons. Truman worked hard, stayed positive, and never let down, scoring a goal with six minutes left in the game making the final 6-1. They are definitely an improved team and it was great to see their skills progress and confidence boosted since our first meeting. It is imperative to celebrate other teams and champion one another as we are all in this for the same reason - to grow the game. It was great to see that in Truman and know those girls have worked hard to get where they are. Pennsbury’s story continues Friday as they travel to Hatboro Horsham and reach higher and higher.