Weekly Recap: 9/24-927

Wednesday, September 24
Varsity Field Hockey: L 0-2 to Suffield
Recap: Porter’s varsity field hockey started aggressively, and that drive continued throughout the game. Suffield scored late in the first half on an offensive corner and then added another 10 minutes into the second half on a unstoppable high shot. Porter’s offense had its best open-field game yet, and although the team was held scoreless, the offense is poised to break through on Saturday against Green Farms at home.

Varsity Soccer: T 2-2 vs. Suffield
Recap: Porter’s varsity soccer competed in an exciting game at Suffield on Wednesday. Twenty-five minutes into the game Porter’s scored from a corner. Emily Wogelius ‘17 swung the ball in and Sydni Scott ‘18 headed home. The second half was very open,with both teams looking to play in a positive manner. Suffield equalized from inside the 6-yard box after good work out wide on the left. With 11 minutes remaining Porter’s counter-attacked. Sydni Scott found herself one-on-one with the goalkeeper and slipped the ball into the back of the net to take the lead. Suffield hit the post and then with only two minutes remaining scored from a corner to tie the game at 2-2.

Varsity Volleyball: W 3-1 over Canterbury
Recap: Porter’s enjoyed a quick start but Canterbury responded by stepping up its serving. Both teams battled well, but Porter’s won most of the long rallies. Canterbury responded by changing their serving tactics to high risk/high reward. The more difficult serving took its toll on Porter’s passing, but the team was able to do just enough to win Set 2. Set 3 saw more of the same difficult serving from Canterbury, Porter’s almost held on to win in 3, but Canterbury was able to take the set with back-to-back aces at 24-24 and 25-24. Set 4 started very similarly, but the high risk serves started to catch up to Canterbury. After a few service errors in a row, they were forced to serve more safely, opening up the opportunity for Porter’s to extend its lead and take the match.

Thursday, September 25
Varsity Badminton: W 7-0 over East Hartford High School
Recap: In two out of three competitions, Porter’s badminton swept East Hartford (7-0) without dropping a single game. At first, second, and third singles competition respectively, Xinyi Wang ‘15, Cindy Qian ‘15, and Rachel Song ‘15 prevented their opponents from accumulating a double digit score. In the doubles competition, Qian/Wang, Song/Jennifer Lim ‘16, Ariene Cheng ‘17/Yiran Duanmu ‘16, and Victoria Linnehan ‘15/Lucy Li ‘16 swept their opponents in straight set matches, allowing their opponents to accumulate a double-digit score in only three out of eight games with scores of 10, 11, and 12 (as opposed to the winning score of 21, claimed by every Porter’s competitor/duo).

Saturday, September 27
Varsity Cross Country: Richard Miller Invitational
Recap: Porter’s raced at the always challenging Westminster course on Saturday, earning fourth place out of 10 teams in the varsity race. The highlight for Porter’s was senior Audrey Jang’s seventh place finish. Also running well for Porter’s was junior Molly Kozlowski, placing 11th overall. Porter’s runners will use this race as a benchmark for improvement for when they race against Westminster again in a few weeks and then for Founders, which will also be held at Westminster. Next week the team will race at the Gordon Glover Invitational at Suffield.

Varsity Soccer: W 2-1 over Hopkins
Recap: Porter’s varsity soccer team arrived at the field on Saturday afternoon to play against a Hopkins team that has brushed aside the program in the last few years. Defensively Porter’s worked hard but needed to communicate and organize earlier when possession was lost. With less than a minute left on the clock, Mackenzie Kievman ‘18 connected with a header from an Emily Wogelius ‘17 corner to put the home team up 1-0. During the second half Porter’s improved and added some intelligence to the hard work on show. With 20 minutes to play Porter’s back line were caught playing out of the back and the Hopkins forward found herself one-on-one with the goalkeeper to tie the score at 1-1. Only a few minutes later captain Katie Maher ‘15 sent in a deep free kick that found the perfectly timed run of Sam Houle ‘17, who scored her first goal of the season from a tight angle.

Varsity Volleyball: L 0-3 to Loomis