JAMES ANDERSON / Scroll
Lady Bruins are the Fall 2006 women’s competitive soccer champions.

The championship was the teams’ third meeting this season. The Lady Bruins, who were the number one seed in the tournament, won one game and tied the other.

The first 45 minutes were dominated by the Lady Hawks. When the whistle blew for half, they were up 1-0. Ashley McDermott, a senior from Unionville, Conn., scored the first goal in the sixth minute of the game, with an assist by Jenna Trone, a sophomore from Gladstone, Ariz.

In the first half alone, the Lady Hawks took eleven shots, while the Lady Bruins could only get off two. This was no huge surprise, considering the Lady Hawks’ reputation as a high-scoring offense.

Even the Lady Bruins’ coach, Andy Hendrickson, a junior from Spokane, Wash., feared the Lady Hawks’ offensive prowess. “The Hawks have a fast, high-scoring offense. We will have to rely on our passing and control, working the ball up slowly,” Hendrickson said.

At the start of the second half, the Lady Bruins began playing at a different level. “Basically, at halftime we got together and just got pumped up for the second half,” said Lucy Giblette, a freshman from Elizabeth, Colo.

In the 50th minute, Giblette put a shot past Lady Hawks goalie Tiffany Togisala, a freshman from Ft. Monmouth, N.J., to tie the score at 1-1. Giblette was not done yet.

In the 54th minute, the Lady Bruins had a corner kick from the left corner with Giblette on the ball. She hooked it up over the defense and past the reach of Toisala into the back corner of the net. The Bruins went on top 2-1.

Fifteen minutes later, Giblette scored again to complet a hat trick. She scored her third goal of the game, giving the Lady Bruins the 3-1 advantage with a little over twenty minutes to play. The Lady Hawks gave one final push, but fell short of the win. The final score was 3-2, after McDermott scored the last goal for the Lady Hawks.

This was Giblette’s first hat trick of the year, although she gives all of the credit to her team. “It wasn’t me, it was my team. I was just lucky enough to be the one to put the ball in the goal,” Giblette said.