Kim Ewanovich Blog#8 From Cannes France

Hello,
So it seems like my team is definitely a "home game" team. After beating the first place team by 15 three weeks ago, we lost to a (bad) team by 2 in an away game last week. This lost dropped us from first place all the way down to fifth. The championship is so tight that there are only 7 points (3 pts for a win, 2 for a tie and 1 for a loss) between the first place team and the last place team. Soooo this means that if we win the next two games we could easily be back up to first place.
This past weekend we had a France Cup game (round 5) against Nice who are currently in 2nd place in D2 (one level above us). We went into the game knowing we weren't expected to win and had nothing to loose. We surprised everybody (and ourselves) when we came out of the gates full force and were up at halftime 12-9. I played the whole game but the last 8 min, and i think i had a very good game (if i do say so myself). With 8 min left we were down by 1 and i was subbed off, after some back and forth goals my team scored with little time remaining and we ended the game 21-21. Because it is a France Cup game there must be a winner and we went straight into shootout. The coach told me that the other goalie would be in net for the penalty shots and said i would go in for the last shot if we need a save. The other team started the shootout and both teams scored the first 3 goals then a Nice player missed the net, we then scored and on the next shot our goalie made a huge save winning us the game 25-24. Both teams dedicated the game to fundraising money for orphanages in Senegal by selling game t-shirts and other things and after the game all the little "clubs kidlets" came up with books that had our picture and names in them and we all signed autographs, so over all it was a great day.
Our next game is this weekend, away vs a team in the north of France.
Bisous

Kim Ewanovich Blog#7 From Cannes France

Hello,

I hope you are all enjoying the snow, i have heard it has started and has decided not to stop. Here the weather is about plus 18 and sunny most days so you're all welcome to come visit anytime :)

This week was a good week, we were a bit nervous because we had a home game vs the first place team, but when the time came we delivered. The papers said that so far Cannes is the best defending team in the league and that Bourg de Peage was the best offensive team so it was expected to be an interesting game.

The game started with us up 8-2 and we kept the lead throughout the whole game. The half time score was 20-8 for us and we ended the game 37-22. I played the first 40 min of the game and played well, with lots of help from my defenders. We are now in first place!! Yipppiiiieeee!!!!

This weekend we play vs a team in the middle of the charts but still they are not a team to be taking lightly.

Other then handball i have not been up to much because i have been sick these past few weeks and i'm slowly getting better.

Hope you are all staying warm and enjoying the christmas music :)

bisous

Kim Ewanovich Blog#6 From Cannes France

Hello,


These last few weeks we had 2 games, one for the France cup and one for the championship. Both of these games were vs the same team La Garde (N1).
It's always nice to win the France cup game but when it comes down to it, it is the championship game that matters the most. To prepare for these games we had a long week with 2 trainings a day with me being the only goalie for the morning practices.
We used the 1st game vs La Garde as learning game to see what would work against them and to see how they played. We won France cup game 28-34 with a half time score of 10-18, i was the only goalie that dressed for this game and played a good first half but not such a great 2nd half.
Our second game was this past weekend at La Garde and it was very important for us to win if we wanted the dream of moving up to D2 to stay alive. The game started out great with us being up 10-4 after 15 min but like in past games we then went 10 min without scoring and La Garde caught up with the score being 10-9 around the 25 min mark. We ended the half up 14-11.
The second half was much like the first with ups and downs (including myself) with us ending the game with 3 points and the score of 26-25. We were happy for the win but knew that we were lucky to squeak by. After the game we received some good news because the 1st place team in our league had lost their game which puts us currently in second and we will play against the 1st place team next weekend (at home) and a win will put us in first place.
This past week due to the G20 being held in Cannes things here have been kinda crazy. 400++ cops moved in to the same resort as us from all over France to act as security for the world leaders that were about to arrive. To make things even more crazy, at random times of the day the police would close down main roads for anywhere from 10min to an hr when the world leaders were being moved from one place to another.
Once the craziness of the G20 started to slow down then the rain kicked in for 3 days straight causing many other problems. The rain here can only be compared to what i have experienced in Brazil. It rained hard for 3 days straight causing many main roads to be closed down, some roads were under more then 2m of water (see my fb video if you get a chance). Today it has been cloudy but no rain so hopefully things will start to get back to normal soon.
This week is all about preparing for our home game this weekend which is a must win for us.
Bisous
Kimberley