UCLA Sports Weekend

I need to write a quick blog post before things go down hill. This is a big weekend for UCLA sports: the number 1 ranked Women's Soccer team plays the 3rd ranked University of Portland Friday in the quarter finals of the NCAA tournament, the football team plays USC Saturday for an outside shot at the Rose Bowl, and the number 1 ranked basketball team plays the 8th ranked Texas Longhorns on Sunday.

Last night Katie and I went to the Women's soccer game. The rain cleared just in time for kick-off and we enjoyed our Von's sandwiches and thermos of hot chocolate under the Drake Stadium lights. The team got off to a slow first half, falling behind 1-0 at the half. Luckily, the second half was all UCLA. Danesha Adams made a sick run where she took on the whole defense and scored. Another UCLA goal put them up one until Portland got a corner kick with 1:11 left in the game. We had a girl whiff a kick on the corner and Portland scored. We preceded to dominate the next two overtimes and score on a sweet corner kick in the 104th minute!

It was a great "double-overtime thriller" as my Dad would have called it. I figured I had to write this post now before things could go down hill. I have confidence that we'll hold our own against Texas on Sunday, I wish I could say the same for the game about to kick off.