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Blog: The Knights Like The Close Ones

By Chip Fontanazza on September 2, 2012 6:03 PM

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Many teams that advance deep in the post season have morethan likely won some close games. The UCF women's soccer team is hoping to makeanother deep run into the post season and head coach Amanda Cromwell sayswinning close games will help her team accomplish that.

Last year, the Knights went to the Elite Eight in the NCAATournament.

Sunday's 1-0 overtime victory against Georgia was UCF'ssecond overtime win of the season. The other win came against then-No. 12 Miami(FL) and three of the Knights' five victories this season have been by one goal.

"In practice, we train for that," Cromwell said. "So whenpost season comes we'll feel calm and collected about things and we can playour game."

Senior forward Tishia Jewell scored the game-winning goalagainst the Bulldogs with under one minute left in overtime. It was her firstgoal of the season.

"We come together as a team and we never give up," Jewellsaid. "We keep on going for it and we don't stop. You have to learn how to playno matter what situation we're in."

Cromwell says winning close games is also about stayingfocused and working together as a team, but there were some other adjustmentsthe team made against UGA increase their chances to succeed.

"We changed the formation at the end of the game to put somepressure on them and we kept that going into overtime," Cromwell said. "We justwant to keep doing what we're doing."

The women's soccer team's next opponent is at Boston Collegeon Sept. 9.

 

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