SKY BLUE WINS! SKY BLUE FC WINS!

It was a great night at toyota park. The sun was FINALLY shining to please the red stars fans, who have endured the rain for their past home games. The crowd was good, numbering over 3,500 fans around the chicago area, but the fun didn't last long for them.

 In the 8th minute, Collette McCallum hit a lefty pass to Sarah Walsh and was able to find the back of the net, scoring the 2nd goal in Sky Blue FC's franchise, and putting the Sky in the lead for the first time this season. (woo hoo!). This was also Walsh's first goal of the season.

 At the 11th minute, Walsh again had an opportuniy to score with the same play she did earlier in the game, but just couldn't tap it to Natasha Kai.

 In the 38th minute (or maybe the even 37th) Goal Keeper, Jenni Branam, made an important save when Megan Rapinoe (crs) passed the ball to Lindsay Tarpley inside the 18 box. Luckily, Branam made the perfect decision, getting to the ball before Tarpley did.

Branam again made an amazing save when Karen Carney (crs) hit a right foot shot to the bottom left corner of the net. Branam had an amazing diving saver.

Now for the best goal attemption of the night, and those who watched teh game kno what I'm talking about. Near the 57th minute, McCallum hit a left footed cross to Natasha Kai, who would obviously head it in, right? Kai actually headed/ passed it into the feet of NJ native, Heather O'Reilly. She ripped off a shot, right footed and all of a sudden, the loudest bar denting sound occured. HAO was not able to find the back of the net, but she created the loudest noise of the game (other than the fans of course).

And finally, in the 79th minute, McCallum AGAIN finds an open player, this time Kelly Parker. Parker passed the ball into the lower right corner of the net. Kai came storming in to secure the pass and put the Sky Blue up again one goal. This too was Kai's first goal of the season and she pleased many of her fans who were just waiting for her to score.

Ill. native Julianne Sitch (a personal fave) and Canadian Kelly Parker received yellow cards for "unsporting Behavior"...what ever that means. Im reading the Box stats.

the final score was 2-0 sky.

Sky Blue FC FINALLY won a game giving them a record of 1-2-2 and tied for 5th place with the Washington Freedom and STL Athletica.

I will admit there were some scary parts, especially the ones where people bring out the stretcher.

I heard that Sitch got hurt again, but i know it's nothing critical because she played a full 90. Later on in the game, I saw a LOT of players from the Sky Blue FC starting to cramp up, but i think that was a good thing. It showed the the Sky really wanted and needed this.

I think for me, the scariest thing was when GK Jenni Branam went down with something in her (i think) left knee. We assume she has previosly injured it before because she always has tape on it. I'm a pretty big Branam fan (well i'm always a fan of the GKs, but i guess it's just me =] ) i was perty scared because she has a great soccer backround and history. Adding to that, she's a totally amazing goalie. Good thing she's ohkay.

But soccer is great to watch when it gets scary, right?

 Anyways, go celebrate SBFC's first win of the season. I screamed my head off when the final blew. My parents thought i was crazy. hahaha!

Tune into the Universal Channel this Friday, the 15th @ 10:30 ET when the SBFC takes on first place LA Sol! Channel listings can befound on the Sky Blue Website, SkyBlueFC.com. WATCH IT!!

The Next SBFC home game will be May 31st Against the Boston Breakers, who reign at 2nd place in the league. This will be the firsttime Sky Blue will face them

til next time, monaa