It was a battle of the birds Friday at Pennsbury. The Falcons flew into the weekend with a solid win over the Conwell-Egan Eagles, taking a tiny bit of the sting out of the loss to South only 24 hours before. We came into this game fueled by frustration about how we performed Thursday, admitted head coach, Traci Curtis. Each day is new, but we are definitely carrying the weight of the ups and downs from our first four games. Today was a step in the right direction to finding our groove and settling into a rhythm. Rachel Stein started off the scoring less than a minute after the starting whistle with an assist from Mia Popovich as they cleaned up rebounds off of the goalie's pads. Angelina Kenney added a beautiful goal with 15 seconds left in the quarter off of a deflection from Popovich. Meg McClure put a great shot on pads that Popovich deflected up and Kenney came in using her lacrosse talents and slapped it into the goal from mid air. It was an awesome combined effort and heads up play in the circle to put the Falcons up 2-0. The second quarter was scoreless on both sides as Conwell held the Falcons to 2 goals going into half time. The Hawks had really low, strong sticks that made it difficult at times to get the ball out of our defensive end. You can tell they have been working hard and really come together as a tougher team than in the past. They made us work for everything from end to end, Curtis said. Meg McClure added the only third quarter goal unassisted off of the goalie's pads putting the orange and black up 3-0. Yesterday we were on the other side of that 3-0 score, Curtis explained, so it felt good to be the ones putting the ball in the cage today. Rachel Stein struck again in the fourth on an assist from Ava Jordan and then Stein assisted the final goal of the game for Jessie Martin making the it 5-0 in favor of the home team. Rachel's cross was so accurate and Jessie was in the perfect spot for the tip. We practice that so much so it's beautiful when they are able to finish the pattern! They are great friends off the field so we loved seeing those two connect like that - pure joy! It was nice to see such a variety of players contributing in the game today and helping us to score and take charge. Our entire defense worked together sharing in the shut out - Gabby Darling, Riley Henderson (really strong performance), Liv Graebner, Angelina Kenney, Reagan Ward, and Kaylin Flannery kept the circle very well protected. Goalie and senior captain, Jordan Vradenburgh leads and has the unit running like a well oiled machine with her vocal guidance and direction. The non-league win puts a tally in the win column and gives us momentum as we head into next week and face CR North on Tuesday. It will be a week playing on turf so there are adjustments that need to be made as we prepare. We have to take care of our league games and really focus on what needs to be done from here on out. Focus on winning the moments and moving forward no matter what is in our path. Pennsbury will travel to Council Rock North on Tuesday and then travel again on Thursday to face North Penn.