Show r In Left LeftField LeftField i. i Field I By Corey Bullock Sports Editor Have you ever been to Rawlings Wyoming Its It's a little cow town in southern Wyoming with a McDonalds a Catholic church and a gymnasium The biggest thing and the main reason that most people visit Rawlings is Interstate The Women's Soccer Club was traveling home late on Sunday October 22 They were coming from the Ft Collins Tournament in Ft Collins hence the name They had done very well in the tte tournament placing placing placing ing third out of ten teams learns all of which were four year schools more on that later When the team reached Rawlings they were informed that I- I 80 was closed do to a snow storm and would not be open until sometime on Monday Head coach Kim Free and the team began to search for a hotel to spend the night Yep you guessed it No Vacancy Therefore Free began looking for fora a place where they could stay the night She noticed a Catholic church and thought that that might be an option She went and opened the door and realized much to her dismay that they were in the middle of an open casket casket casket cas cas- cas- cas ket funeral She promptly closed thedoor the thedoor door and ran across the street to a school were she found out that they were going to open a Red Cross disaster disaster disaster ter shelter in the gymnasium The Club and other people people people peo peo- spent the night on the hard floor of the gymnasium with blankets There were quite a few people in there them with their plants and animals because it was 7 degrees outside said Free Needless to say none of us slept The next morning the women got up and played basketball for a while as they waited for the road to open up When it did they made it the rest of the way home Most of them slept but occasionally you could hear them laughing about their little visit to Rawlings Wyoming Although the ride home was quit an adventure the tournament was very successful for the women They played three games on Saturday mind you all against four year schools In the first two games of the tournament the Lady Bruins posted shut outs of Nebraska 4 0 and Colorado State 3 0 Next up was Colorado University a team that the Lady Bruins had beaten 1 0 earlier in the year At the end of regulation the score was tied 1 claimed the victory in the second second second sec sec- ond round of 5 kickers On Sunday the Lady Bruins kept rolli rolling with a 1 0 shut out of Western State and with the win they earned a chance to play in the semifinal against Colorado They lost 2 1 to Colorado inthe inthe in inthe the semifinal and took third place The winner of the tournament was Weber State who won on point total because they suspended the tournament due to weather It has been 54 straight games and close to five years now since the Prairie View Yew AM Panthers have one onea a football game This weekend they lost to Mississippi Valley State 38 I II r I II i I I 1 I. I 7 |