Student Pounds the Drum; Rams beat St. Joe Angels, 2-1

You can certainly tell it is that time of the year in field hockey.

When queried what were the seasonal records, both St. Joe coach Maggie Potter and MICDS coach Lynn Mittler begged off. Both professed not to know the win/lloss record for the season.

For the record, at the end of  a 2-1 home victory for the Rams, MICDS is 6-11 and 3-4 in the conference while St. Joe slipped to 9-7 and 3-3.

“But I’m happy, we’ve established a win streak,” said Mittler in victory.

It was a great game and beautiful sunshine day brought a strange mix of fans out. Some student spent the better part of the second half belting a big base drum. Parents rang cowbells and some after school grade schoolers chanted “Let’s go Rams” before rolling collectively down the hill and retreating to their playground swing sets.

On the side of swinging the stick, it was nearly all Angels. They outshot the Rams 17 shots to 4.

At 10:43 in the first half, St. Joe forward Claire Sauer broke a deadlocked score with a nifty shot past keeper Anna Clarkson. The assist went to Tori Lage.

The Rams came alive in the second half with two goals inside of six minutes apart. At just 55 seconds into the second half junior Claire Rush scored on an assist from Ellie Condie, senior. Condie returned the favor five and a half minutes later, score on an unassisted breakaway that caught Angel goalkeeper Josie Mullen out of position. This was Condie’s 13th goal of the year and eighth assist for 34 team leading points.

Check out interviews with Ellie Condie and Coach Lynn Mittler.