Kim Ewanovich Blog#23

Bonjour,


This week was a hard one because we were playing against the 1st place team who happen to be the clubs neighbourhood rivals. This game wasn't like any normal game because of the bad history between the clubs and some stuff said by the other team on facebook (oh high school drama!!). Anyways my team came to the game prepared to fight till the end, and we did just that. The half time score was 10-9 for the other team, and like i said this team was in first place (and us close to last place) so people we expecting the score to be a little different then what it was.
We stayed with them all though second half until about 10 min left when we were tied with them and our assistant coach said something to the refs and they got mad and gave him a 2 min, making us play with one less player. The score was 19-19 before the 2 min and then 21-19 for them after the 2 min, and we ended the game down by 2 with the final score 22-20. I'm not saying it was the coaches fault, but the 2 min didn't exactly help the situation...
I probably had one of my best games of the season, saving 22 shots giving me a 50% saving average. Lots of ppl came up to me after the game to say how well i played, but it's hard to be happy about it when your team still lost the game.
Thats about it from this week.
News soon to come about next season, but i can't say much until a contract is finalized.
We now have the next 2 weeks off from games for easter break, my team will only train on friday so i hope to get some extra practices in with the Toulon team.
Bisous
Kimberley

Kim Ewanovich Blog#22

Hello,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnB_S16a2oM

So this last week has had it's ups and downs. For our game this past weekend we brought up 4 players from our 2nd team because they didn't have a game and had them train with us all week. It was nice to have 2 full lines at practice so we could run game like situations with a full offence and defence (although i was still the only goalie).
The trainings seemed to help us in the game because we started off really strong ending the half down two (9-7) with 3 of their 9 goals being from 7m penalty shots. I saved one 7m shot with my face, you can see the save on my fb page or click on the link above. In the 2nd half we got tiered and slopping on offence giving the team fast breaks and easy scoring opportunities and our offence was missing open shots and caused a lot of turnovers. The final score was 14-21, i had a decent game but not good enough...


So the season is winding down to a close, just 3 more games to go and it is very important for my team to win at least one of the next 3 games or we stand a chance of moving down to N3 next season. This will be difficult as our last three games are all against very high ranked teams but we hope to get lucky and win one more game so the team can stay in N2 the next season.


The next season for me is still in the air, i have some clubs interested and we are just now trying to work out the details, so i hope to sign something in the next few weeks.


Weather wise things here are starting to heat up so in between trainings and work out i try to get outside tan a little
Hope everything is good back home.
Kimberley

Kim Ewanovich Blog#21

Bonjour,


This blog will cover the last two weeks as i was unable to write a blog last week.


Last week, my friend AC (from Quebec) came to visit me for a few days which was a great change in pace for me. We went shopping, she practiced with my team, we watched a few intense handball games (2 games ending in a fight, one game ended with players fighting and the other with parents fighting in the stands), after that we went out for a night on the town and met up with a few ppl from the girls and guys team.
Training started again on monday with the goal of preparing the team for our game this past saturday vs Pays d'Apt. In showing up to practice i, (and the rest of the team found out) that our right back slipped in the shower (or something along those lines) and stretched some ligaments in her knee and would be unable to play this coming weekend. Our left back was also unable to play because she had just received scoping on her knee a week earlier. Sooo that left us with 7 players and me, due to our 2nd team and u18 team also having games that day we were unable to pick up any players and we would be going to the away game with 8 players in total.
We lost the game 30-23, i played an okay (not great) game, but just like previous games the fast breaks and 6m shots were what killed us in the end. Shortly after the 2nd half started one of our player went to take a shot and had her arm "ripped off" and she fell screaming of pain in her shoulder and wrist. She came to practice today with her wrist in a brace and her arm in a sling, turns out after she was hit she landed on her wrist (possibly fracturing it) as well as she has a dislocated shoulder. We will know more about the extent of her injuries in the following days but it's safe (and sad) to say she will be out for the next 3-5 weeks. There was also another injury to a player on my team in the last 5 min, so we ended the game with one man less on the court because we had no subs to put on for the hurt players. The 2nd girl that got hurt did not practice today but should be okay to play in the home game this weekend.
This team has had a lot of bad luck this season, and it may not be over. We need to win 2 of the last 4 games to be "safe" from moving down. If this does not happen, and our bad luck continues there is a possibility that we could move down next season.
On the happier side of things, i have a tryout in a few weeks with a D2 team. I will keep you posted with how that goes.
Bisous
Kimberley