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Boston wins at home at last

Boston Breakers 1 Washington Freedom 0
June16, 2001
Nickerson Field, Boston University, Boston, Massachusets
Sellout-over 11,000

Scoring

Boston 13. Lilly 63 mins.

Boston Breakers

1. Ducar, Tracey
2. Raygor, Keri
5. Foster, Elie
11. Hucles, Angela
13. Lilly, Kristine- Captain
14. Melgren, Danny
15. Sobrero, K
16. McCann, Christine (3. Powell, Sara, 52)
17. Massengale, Lindsay (4. Kemp, Allison, 46)
19. Erikson, Meotis
20. Calkins, Kimberly

Washington Freedom

18. Mullinex, Siri
2. Barr, Emmy
4. Bai Jie (20. Davey, Krista, 65)
7. Makinen, Anne
9. Hamm, Mia
10. Pretinha (8. Roseli, 79)
11. French, Michelle
14. Grubb, Jen
15. Gerardo, Monica (13. Milburn, Tracey, 58)
16. Stoecker, Lindsey
23. Little, Skylar (8. Roseli, 80)

Officials:

Refere: Brenda Wright

Statistical	Boston	Washington
Shots
Saves
Corner Kicks
Fouls
Offside

Game

With Boston losing three of their foreign players to National Team duty at home they played a quite different lineup. The first half the Breakers appeared to be attempting to bottle up the Freedom's potent scoring players by offering little organized attack, although they were lucky that the referee elected to overlook a rather obvious foul on Prethina in the penalty box. It worked for them mainly because of the many overhit service balls from the midfield by Washington, The Freedom were probably having difficulty adjusting to the faster surface of the Boston artificial field.

The second half was tedious until Lilly's magnificent dipping go ahead goal brought the game alive. There was more action in the last twenty minutes to excite the home crowd as Hamm hit the crossbar and Ducar played one of her best games seen so far. Boston hung on for their first win at home.