What a week in Falcon Sports. On Friday Men's and Women's hockey practice started, Saturday was a 3OT thriller against La Crosee, Wednesday is the final home conference volleyball match at 7pm against Stout, the Men's hockey team opens play at Hunt Arena on Friday against Concordia and Saturday the football team plays at #2 Whitewater. We all know what happened against La Crosse so lets look ahead to the upcoming week.
On Wednesday the Volleyball team plays host to Stout in a game the Falcons should win. They have already clinched a spot in the WIAC tournament and will be looking to improve their seeding. Also this is the only Volleyball game scheduled to be aired on WRFW this season, it is also the first game that will be broadcast one channel 19 by the new River Falls Sports Network.
On Friday the Men's hockey team will open the season against Concordia. The Falcons are trying to rebound from last year's disappointing 4-9-1 conference record. Much of the Falcons success will rest in the hands of Derek Hansberry, Pat Borgestad and Dustin Norman who were 2nd-4th in scoring last year for the Falcons. The Falcons will also have to make up for the loss of TJ Dahl who led the team in scoring last season and is 3rd all-time in the Falcon Record books with 41 goals 114 assists 155 points.
Saturday the football team makes the long trek to Whitewater to take on the Warhawks who are ranked 2nd in the nation. Even though the Falcons have played well all season and could just as easily be 5-1 as they are 2-4, and have played two nationally ranked teams tough losing by a combined six points, I don't see us hanging around long in this game. Whitewater is in a class of two that includes Mount Union as those two teams have played for the national championship in three straight seasons. After that comes the class of other ranked teams and the ones that can compete with them, which I put our team in based on the fact our four losses have come by a combined nine points. All that said I'm hoping the score will look something like 42-21 Whitewater.
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