Untold Story

Mville Soccer Game Turns Sour

Last Sunday, the Manhattanville women’s soccer team played a freedom conference away-game against FDU (Fairleigh Dickinson University). The result ended in a 3-2 loss against the FDU Devils. They were able to stay in the game for the majority of its duration.

The Valiants had been tied with the Devils 2-2 heading into the second half. Christie Demarco scored the Valiants first goal and her eighth of the season during the 28^th minute. The second goal came from Tori Lettieri a minute after the Devils had taken a 2-1 lead, making it a tied game.

Their downfall came at the 69^th minute mark when the FDU Devils scored taking advantage of a 3-2 lead to shut down the Valiants. After the goal, the Valiants could not come back and remained fairly quite throughout the final minutes.

While the Manhattanville women’s soccer team had lost the game, they still managed to play under various pressures. For one the FDU’s hospitality was not there and the Valiants found themselves playing through a lot of scrutiny.  

 “It wasn’t the best experience I’ve had playing on the field. There was a group of FDU students yelling at us telling us that we had Ebola because we came from New York,” said one of the players who wish to remained unnamed.

The group of students that were bashing the team appeared to be heavily under the influence and singled out players by their name. They read the names that were on the program and yelled them out and verbally insulted each one of them.

“One of our players is Ethiopian and she was being accused of having Ebola, which was absolutely absurd. I don’t think that joking about the matter was appropriate at all. It shows the lack of common sense that some people have,” said Christie Freer.

The verbal insults continued for the majority of the game up until the 60^th minute when the refs decided to kick the group of FDU students out for their disruption. Surely this had an impact on the players on the field.

“I still can’t believe that they waited that long to kick them off,” said Freer.

Nevertheless, the team composed themselves throughout the game. It was a close game where unfortunately the Valiants did not have an advantage.

The women’s soccer team will look to play their final non-conference away-game against the Warriors of Eastern Connecticut State on Wednesday at 6:00PM.