By Aaron Heller //
The Hood College women’s soccer team just broke an NCAA record. Not goals, assists or shutouts. 0-0 ties.
Yes, the Blazers finished with a NCAA record of nine 0-0 ties, breaking the previous record of five. Not only were they ties, but they were 0-0 ties.
Hood women’s soccer finished their 2024 season with a 4-6-9 overall record and a 2-2-3 in MAC conference play.
“It’s an awkward feeling, on one hand, it’s kinda cool to break a record as a team but then when you think about it and it’s a record for most 0-0 ties it’s like oh there’s a record for that,” senior goalkeeper Brenna Ellenberger said. “It’s a cool concept and the fact that our team will be in the record books is very cool to think about.”
The Blazers only allowed 10 goals in their 19 total games, however, they only scored nine themselves.
“I think some might say that having a lot of ties can be seen as a bad thing, but I think in a way it shows how incredibly talented our defense is,” junior defender Katy Grow said. “The defense did an amazing job to keep us in many games and I think it goes to show how defense is such a key element in the game of soccer.”
The Blazers tied in six non-conference games and three conference games this season. Some players believe that conference games should go to overtime or shootout, to eliminate the tie. “My opinion on it is for out-of-conference games they can end in a tie at regulation but for conference games, they should have OT to eliminate ties,” Ellenberger said.
“If we were to have broken at least one of our ties with either York, Stevenson, or Alvernia, we could very much be in postseason play right now,” Grow added.
No one likes losing, but for the women’s soccer team, the ties began to be even more frustrating.
“Ties are sometimes more frustrating than losses because you did all you could on one end of the field but not on the other end,” Ellenberger said. “You were one step away from losing but one step away from winning and tying ends up getting old just like losing because just like losing nobody wants to because both teams are there to win.”
“As a team, I think at times we were frustrated with the ties because we knew that we were capable of coming out on top, but that’s just the game for you and it is something that we can build on as a team, to be stronger for next season,” Grow said.
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