The Pennsbury Falcons, coming off of a hard fought battle against Neshaminy on Thursday, traveled to CR North for another league match up. This highly anticipated stand off is always a great game filled with highs and lows and everything in between. Today the lows outweighed the highs for PHS. The orange and black jumped out on fire and connected in the opening three minutes to take the lead 1-0. "The passing series up the field was beautifully executed. Many players had a hand in getting that ball up to the circle and to finish, Abby Iacona sent a pass to Abby Anderer out wide and Anderer just finished with strength," explained head coach, Traci Curtis. "It was really well done and exactly what we had worked on for weeks," Curtis added. "What is funny is that is exactly what Nesh did to us a few days earlier. It felt good to be on the other side of that play in the opening minutes this time," Curtis explained. CR North didn't flinch. Three minutes later they tallied their first goal to tie it up, giving PHS no time at all to really enjoy the slim lead. "One thing about Rock is you can never let down for one second," said Curtis. "They will come at you extra hard if they even sniff a lull." And that is exactly what happened. With about nine seconds left in the first quarter, CRN gained possession outside of their offensive circle and worked their way right through the Falcon defense to take the lead 2-1 at the buzzer. "That was a dagger in the heart moment," Curtis admitted. "We were tied 1-1 and could have taken that into the next quarter, but then in a split second we found ourselves down by one. It should have never happened at all. We miss managed the clock and flubbed a free hit and should have been better in that moment." The second and third quarters were scoreless, however Council Rock kept knocking on the Falcons' door with repeated penalty corners. "Our defense was exhausted and managed to stop a tirade of corners, but they just were not working well together today for some reason. The unit seemed "off" as a whole. Unfortunately, we could not get our offense going enough to have solid opportunities. Some of those connections after that opening play seemed to just dissipate," said Curtis. It remained a 2-1 game going into the fourth quarter and now it was a battle of who was able to dig the deepest. North solidified their stance on digging deep by scoring their third goal two minutes into the final quarter. Down 3-1, Pennsbury had a lot of work to do, but the job got even more difficult when CRN added another goal three minutes later to make it 4-1 with ten minutes left in the game. "There was still plenty of time, but we just could not get our act together today. I will not put all of the responsibility on the players, we as coaches needed to dig deeper as well. We seemed to run out of strategies and ideas. We should have used our time out and we didn't and that could have been helpful and that was our mistake," said Curtis. "There were many bright spots in the mess today and we cannot forget that. Anderer connecting to score a goal was one of them. She did really well up front communicating, guiding, and helping to create offense. Angelina Kenney is a huge spark of speed, stepping to the ball, and energy that never seems to fade. Her defensive fire helps us out tremendously in so many moments. We made some great passing choices up the line that worked really well and we applied many things that we talked about coming off our loss last week." "Jules does an incredible job with her team and it's always a great game between us. Kudos to her girls who fought hard, never let down, and came at us with heart and skill that outdid us. Sierra Kim in the backfield is a super smart player who really took advantage of some key moments and helped her team earn that win. North had four different players score, which is also a key to success," complimented Curtis. The two teams will meet again later in the season for another great battle. Pennsbury will get to work as they prepare to play the other Rock - CR South on Wednesday night at Falcon Field.