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NEW BRITAIN - There have been many teams dubbed “Cardiac Kids” for the ability to come through when the chips are down and somehow find a way to win. Few have done so with the confidence exuded by the Plainfield Panthers girls soccer team.
As it did in a quarterfinal match on Friday, the third-seeded Panthers again rallied from a goal down late in the second overtime to tie their Class M semifinal match with No. 10 Weston.
As Killingly and Notre Dame-Fairfield already have learned, the Panthers don’t lose in PK’s.
Plainfield outscored Weston, 3-1, in the shootout to capture the 2-1 victory over the Bears and advance to the first state title match in program history.
The Panthers will meet No. 1 Lewis Mills on Saturday at a time and site to be determined. Lewis Mills defeated Morgan in PKs in the other semifinal.
It will be the first state title game for a Plainfield High School team since the Panthers baseball team lost to Waterford in 1988.
It’s been 30 years since a Plainfield coach and his players got a chance to think that way. It was still sinking in on Monday night.
Pearson was a key as she made 10 saves on 15 shots for the Panthers in regulation including a key save on a breakaway by Weston’s Julia Rosenberg.
“Madi has just been getting progressively better and better,” Zielinski said.
It was the Plainfield defense that allowed Weston to get on the scoreboard first.
Katherine Orefice beat the Plainfield defense and forced Pearson to guess which way she was going to go with a shot. Pearson went to the near side, Orefice’s shot found its way inside the far post with 5:45 left in the second overtime.
“At that point, I was thinking, we were here before,” Zielinski said.
Notre Dame-Fairfield took the lead four minutes into the first overtime in Friday’s quarterfinal.
“Magic can happen twice,” Zielinski said.
It did four minutes later.
With 1:43 left in overtime, Plainfield’s Cassie Carleson took a corner. Her kick went across the box where a Weston player struck it, but instead of clearing it, sent it across the goal mouth to the other side. There a Price was waiting.
Like her older sister, Alexis, who scored the game-tying goal with 12 seconds left to play Friday, Lindsey, only a freshman, redirected the ball.
The Panthers again prevailed in the penalty kick session thanks in part to Pearson who made a key save on the Bears third kick.
Izzy Newbury and Carleson had already scored when Alexis Price stepped up. The senior got not only the game-tying goal, but the game-winning PK on Friday.
Unlike Friday, this time she knew what was on the line.
“It doesn’t get an easier,” Alexis Price said.
She sent it to the left and under Weston goalie Jaclyn Price to send the Panthers into the state title match.
The year that Plainfield played for a baseball title, the girls soccer program was two years old and guided by a young coach named Jan Voland, who is now the school’s veteran athletic director.
"They made it," read the post on the Northern Warfare Training Center's social media site, Saturday around 8 p.m. It was a very brief conversation based on the elevation and long movement.
"The team is tired and fatigued and will now begin their movement back, a comment from Maj. William Prayner, the NWTC commander continued, "…very proud of a monumental physical and mental effort - but still some significant work to do working back down the mountain safely."
That statement was a bit prescient, perhaps. Three days later, weather interrupted plans for the extraction team's flight Tuesday.
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first, real estate - Costco leads the pack of featured retailers at $1,031 and GameStop is not far behind - who knew? Perhaps GameStop is indeed reinventing itself successfully. Also, although Apple stores are specialty stores and so not a direct comparison to any of the listed brands except GameStop, it's worth noting that the company averages $5,647 in sales per square foot at its U.S. stores, according to research by RetailSails.
e-commerce - I wasn't surprised to see Amazon top the list of sales for e-commerce charts, but the #2 e-tailer, Staples, was somewhat unexpected - I suppose small businesses are buying big ticket office equipment and furniture online - again, who knew?! Importantly, though, at $48.1BB Amazon's sales dwarf any other brand's.
customer base - Of online consumer electronics shoppers, 25% visit bestbuy.com, 41% visit amazon.com, and only 3% visit apple.com. While this reinforces the sad state of bestbuy.com's consumer appeal, it also indicates that a lot of shoppers are visiting sites other than Best Buy"s and Amazon's - where are these people shopping? Hmmm… Also, general "online CE shoppers" are not buying at apple.com - either they are buying in Apple stores, or they're not buying Apple at all - methinks it's the former.
conversion - 31% of bestbuy.com shoppers buy something vs. 81% of amazon.com shoppers and 76% of apple.com shoppers. This tells me bestbuy.com shoppers are primarily using the site to browse or to reverse showroom (research online, then buy in store). Neither of these behaviors are necessarily bad, provided the company figure out a way to capture more of the sales when shoppers do convert to buyers.
A few Midwestern State Mustangs have more inspiration going into Saturday's Military Appreciation Night.
The Midwestern State Mustangs will play their annual Military Appreciation game against longtime rival West Texas A&M at 1 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
The Mustangs are looking to continue their winning ways as they vie for a berth in the NCAA Division II playoffs that begin the following week.
A few Mustangs have more inspiration going into this game because they have had family members serve in the military. Those service members not only helped shape these young men, but have given them a greater appreciation of the military and its members.
“I grew up in a military background. My papa and his papa were both in the military. So that was pretty cool," senior running back Nicholas Gabriel said. "I was thinking about going into the Air Force at first, then the football scholarship came. I kind of just stuck with football.
"I fell it’s a big honor. Getting to play football in front of them is a huge honor. Having them cheer you on is huge."
Freshman Matthew Roach’s grandfather was a service member. He remembers the talks he and his grandfather have had about war.
“My grandpa he when talks about war, it’s very heavy on his heart because he knows he did it for the sacrifice of the people for their freedom," Roach said. "It inspires me every day to inspire to him because he has been that role model and that person for me."
Freshman Bucky Duke said his grandfather was in the service "way before I was born but even to this day he still holds the same characteristics. He loves the fact he served our country. He brags about it and it makes me feel good that people appreciate it and tells him thank you for your service."
This game has more meaning than just a win or a loss. A piece of them will be playing for their loved ones who serves or have served and the other for their brothers who share the maroon and gold uniforms with them.
That’s because even if opioid abuse is successfully beaten back, new drugs are likely to replace it, much like opioid deaths have eclipsed deaths from cocaine and other drugs in older (or ongoing) epidemics, researchers said.
Burke suggests a cause for the exponentially worsening death rate, as well as a solution.
“U.S. society needs to pay attention to the loss of the sense of purpose, the widening economic disparities, the loss of community,” said Burke, according to NBC.
The study also dug into the geography and demography of drug deaths in the U.S.
Before 2010, most who died of drug overdoses were in their 40s or 50s, and were using prescription drugs or cocaine. But since then, heroin and Fentanyl deaths have become more common — and have killed those in their 20s to 40s, researchers said.
Prescription opioid abuse, which began in the southwest and Appalachia, spread to the rest of the west, as well as Oklahoma, Florida and states in the Northeast, researchers said. Cocaine started off most common in large cities, but has spread.
One region did appear relatively unscathed by the epidemic, researchers said: The North Central states were a “cold spot” for all the drugs the researchers looked at, while other regions were “hot spots” for one or more drugs.
At least one expert who wasn’t associated with the study agreed with Burke’s conclusion about tackling the underlying societal problems that may be driving drug abuse and deaths, the Los Angeles Times reports.
“To prevent new drug epidemics, we can’t keep focusing on one drug or another or wait to respond until overdose deaths reach epidemic levels,” said Linda Richter, the Center on Addiction’s director of policy research and analysis, according to the newspaper.
Whether they're building nests or spinning webs, these critters have mastered the art of marrying practicality with beauty.
British artist Ptolemy Elrington merges recycling and sculpture with his fascinating works of art.
Keep an eye out for these colorful, charismatic and (in some cases) rare birds.
What's better than not having to worry about breakfast first thing in the morning? Knowing your breakfast is guilt-free!
This UNESCO World Heritage Site is one of the most beautiful waterside settlements in the world.
Using a blank white napkin as a canvas, Nina Levy doodles creative mashups and whimsical scenes that are sure to make her kids smile.
Before they become adults, these tiny creatures stay safe in a beautiful, fiber-optic way.
The iconic gateways to Japan's shrines and temples are as symbolic as they are beautiful.
In a dazzling feat of Batesian mimicry, the cinereous mourner chick looks and acts like a toxic caterpillar.
And you thought you looked cute in your favorite sweater.