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Late goal lifts Twin Valley over Hershey for District 3 Class 2A girls lacrosse title
HERSHEY — With the game on the line and a title to successfully defend in Thursday’s District 3 Class 2A girls lacrosse final, Twin Valley junior Anna Givens had one thing on her mind as she stepped up to the penalty zone: her team.
“I just wanted to do this for my team,” Givens said. “Coming back here we had something to protect and we worked so hard to get to that point. We didn’t want to go into overtime; we wanted to end it right there. So on that line I was just thinking of my team and trying to get us that win.”
A back-and-forth contest against top-seeded Hershey came down to the wire as a penalty was awarded to the Raiders with the game tied and under 50 seconds to go.
Givens scored the game-winner with 47.6 seconds left following the restart to give the Raiders a 7-6 lead and soon after their second consecutive District 3 Class 2A championship. Twin Valley won its first title a year ago when the since-graduated Anna Kaplan scored with a 19 seconds left in a 14-13 victory over York Catholic.
The Twin Valley Raiders pose after winning the 2023 District 3 Class 2A girls lacrosse championship. (ANDREW HELLER – READING EAGLE)
This time, Givens made a strong run at goal and slotted the ball low past Trojans goalie Olivia Fox for her game-high third goal of the day.
“I think before when we had pulled it out (following the penalty restart) it took us a little bit longer to get back in,” Givens said. “They had an amazing defense and they kind of read what we were doing on those plays. So we have practiced so many eight meters (penalty shots) in practice so I felt like I was ready and I just wanted to end it right there.”
The seventh-seeded Raiders (18-6) won the faceoff following the goal thanks to the help of Sam Rhoads, who won the majority of the game’s faceoffs, and ran out the remaining time in top-seeded Hershey’s half of the field.
“I’m super proud of these girls; it’s like a family,” Twin Valley coach Courtney Kaplan said. “The coaches are awesome, the parents are awesome. Our playoff bus is decorated every single game. It just puts everyone in a family mode.
“I think Anna Givens had an amazing game. She had a hat trick, but more of just the off ball (play) that caused turnovers (made a difference). I thought she grinded this game.
We also played smart. I thought we made a couple silly mistakes throughout the game and it was all about cleaning up our game and making it count when we needed to and I think they did that.”
The Twin Valley Raiders celebrate after winning the 2023 District 3 Class 2A girls lacrosse championship. (ANDREW HELLER – READING EAGLE)
Indeed, the off ball play from the Raiders collectively made a difference when it mattered most.
Twin Valley regained possession late in the game when it recovered a loose ball near midfield to prevent the Trojans (20-1) from making a charge with a little over a minute left.
Trailing 6-5, the Raiders also forced a turnover with 6:30 left to regain possession, which led to Kylie Duke’s tying goal off an assisted from Jessie Robinette with 4:11 to go.
“I think we lost the ball ourselves (first), and I think Sam (Rhoads) picked it up on a ground ball and came out with it and ran it down,” Kaplan said. “Just being dialed in and being able to help; our man-to-man defense was phenomenal, but our help defense was also really good.
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“We’ve just communicated so well throughout the season,” Givens said. “A couple of players, especially defenders like Chelsea Hurley and Morgan Raines, their slide defense is just amazing. Like even if you get beat, you know that there’s always someone there that’s gonna back you up. Camrynn Owens had some amazing stops; our whole defense just works for each other.
“Communication is key and that’s what happened; we just really shut them down. And of course, (goalie) Paige (Borkowski) is the rock. She’s the heart of our defense, and she had an amazing game. Everyone did.”
An amazing game on defense was necessary to combat Hershey’s dual threat of Hailey Russell (two goals) and Hanna Russell (one).
Hailey Russel scored her two goals in quick succession with her team trailing by two late in the first half to tie it at 3-3 heading at halftime. Abby Hand scored the first goal of the game for the Trojans with 17:25 remaining in the first half before Twin Valley scored three unanswered.
“Those are two girls you really have to watch and they are great players,” Kaplan said. “Just because they connect a lot on the field, they love to share the ball with each other. So it was really watching them but also we had to play our game.”
Rhoads scored the Raiders’ first goal with 16:01 left in the first and was assisted by Robinette. Givens scored her first goal of the day with 14:37 left in the opening half off an assist from Hadley Munn, and Rhoads got her second goal on an unassisted play with 9:20 to go in the opening 25 minutes.
Borkowski, the Berks Player of the Year, made five saves.
“This means everything; I’m so proud of this team,” Borkowski said, “They’re like my sisters and I’m just so happy to be able to accomplish everything with them.
“I’m so proud of my defense today. They were so locked in every single second, communicating the whole entire time, and I’m just so proud of them.”
Givens recorded her second goal early with 22:55 to go and was assisted by Kaitlyn Davis to give Twin Valley the lead.
Hand scored her second goal to tie it with 17:14 to go.
The tie was broken shortly thereafter once again when Duke scored with 14:18 off an assisted from Amelia Wood.
Hannah Russell’s lone goal with 11:32 tied it before a goal from Megan McDonald with 10:03 gave the Trojans a 6-5 lead.
Though it trailed down the stretch, as it has done with dexterity throughout these past two winning seasons, chemistry helped propel Twin Valley to the come-from-behind victory.
“Team chemistry is everything to us,” Givens said. “Last year, our seniors really built it and all we wanted to do was continue that coming in (to this season). We just want everyone to have fun and it’s just a family. We all love each other and we do everything for each other.”
“I do think it’s chemistry because we have really talented girls, but they all just work together and they’ll share the ball,” Kaplan said, “and that’s good lacrosse. It’s fun to watch and it’s hard for people to scout us that way because they have to mark a million people instead of just two.
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Moving forward, the Raiders will take a winning mentality into the PIAA Tournament. After falling last season in the 2A championship game to Archbishop Carroll 10-8, Twin Valley will have another chance to raise that third banner as the BCIAA and District 3 champions roll on. It will face the third-place team from District 7 on Tuesday, site and time to be announced.
“We just need to keep going strong,” Givens said. “We need to have the mentality of we’re going for it, nothing is stopping us. It’s play till you lose and we’re not going to lose. We’re not gonna lose. That’s our mentality. We’re going to be winners all the way through.”
The Twin Valley Raiders celebrate after winning the 2023 District 3 Class 2A girls lacrosse championship. (ANDREW HELLER – READING EAGLE)
Sixteen-year-old Matvey Michkov became a hero at the first stage of the Eurotour
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In Finland, the first stage of the Eurotour, the Karjala Cup, has ended.
In their last match, the Russian team met with the Czechs and won with a score of 5:2.
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Recall that the first two matches of the renewed team of Russia lost – 0:3 – to the Finns and 2:4 to the Swedes. However, according to the coaching staff of our team, you should not pay attention to the result, because we had our own heroes.
Such, no doubt, can be called a 16-year-old St. Petersburg SKA striker Matvey Michkov. In a match with the Swedish team, he created a masterpiece in the style of the Finn Granlund. At the 22nd minute of the match, Matvey sent the puck in lacrosse style right behind the collar of the Tre Krunur goalkeeper.
Note that Michkov became the author of the “youngest” puck for the national team in the history of national hockey. On the day of the match, Matvey was 16 years, 11 months and 4 days old. Previously, only two players managed to score goals before reaching the age of 18 – these are Alexander Ovechkin (17 years, 11 months and 21 days) and Nikita Chibrikov (17 years, 11 months and 29 days).
For 67 years in the national teams of the USSR and Russia at the age of 18, 15 players chalked up abandoned goals.
Sergey Zubov, acting head coach of the Russian national team, was very pleased with Matvey’s performance:
– He’s just smart. You don’t see lacrosse at this level very often. Matvey had split seconds to make a decision. This, of course, is a super goal that will be remembered for a long time.
Interestingly, the Swedes’ mentor Yukhan Garpenlev was also impressed by the performance of the Russian striker:
– I was impressed by Michkov’s goal. It’s hard to score a goal like that in a game. He is a skilled player who has fast hands. You can only look at this and smile.
Did this goal make the defenders angry? They are 30 years old, and a 16-year-old hockey player throws.
Yukhan Garpenlev: We don’t think about such things. It doesn’t matter how old he is – 16, 25 or 30. Our team is trying to win the match. I think Russia is the same.
They also want to win. They have players of all ages on the team. When there is such a special player, he can grow into a very good hockey player.
Peter Forsberg’s goal at the Lillehammer Olympics is on postage stamps in Sweden. Can this happen with Michkov’s goal?
Yukhan Garpenlev : Maybe for you, but not for us. In Russia, Svechnikov scored. But if a hockey player did it at the age of 16 in such a game, he is a special player.
Alexander Ovechkin , Washington Capitals forward:
– I would like to congratulate Matvey on a great game. He already broke my record when he got called up to the national team. Now it’s time to show yourself. This puck is proof that he has a great future in hockey. I want to wish him success, all the best. The main thing is to work, boy, and you will succeed!
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Matvey Michkov was born in Perm. His first teams were Molot and a little later Yaroslavl Lokomotiv.
In May 2020, Michkov terminated his contract with Loko, after which he moved to SKA St.
Petersburg.
Interestingly, Michkov got into the junior team after his starting season in the MHL, where he made his debut at the age of 15 for SKA-1946. In a new league for himself, where guys are five years older, Matvey became the top scorer of his team and entered the top 8 most productive players of the season. Matvey made his debut for the SKA main team at the Nikolai Puchkov Summer Tournament. And in his first match, he scored against Sochi. This season in the KHL, he has two goals in 10 games.
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“Fans are almost ready to fight for this book.” All for the Game Trilogy Translator on Working on the Series
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Popcorn Books Releases The Raven King – Part Two Nora Sakavich’s action-packed trilogy All for the Game about a university sports team.
The book has long been popular in Russia thanks to fan translations, and Nadezhda Sechkina, the author of the official translation, had a difficult task not to alienate fans with the new version. We spoke with Nadezhda about the complexities of working on the series and found out if fan translation and official translation can coexist.
How did the fans react to the news that instead of the usual fan version there will be a publisher’s translation of their favorite series? Usually, when a publisher buys the rights to a book, all illegal versions should disappear from the Internet.
When Popcorn Books publicly announced that the book would be released, the response was very good, people were happy. Readers wanted to get a book in paper, to be able to hold it in their hands and turn the pages – for many this is important.
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As for the fan translation, nothing was removed in this case: the translators obtained permission from the author for non-commercial use of the text. And he has a lot of fans, because he appeared first, and the Russian-speaking audience was able to get acquainted with this series thanks to the work of the fans.
My fifteen-year-old daughter read the first part when my author’s copies arrived, then became the first reader of the finished translation of the second part, but the third … read in a fan translation – she said that she could not wait to know the continuation of the story.
I read in the reviews that the tension in the books builds so much from part to part that people just can’t wait. And they no longer care what the translation is, just to find out how it all ended. But the daughter says that she will reread it when the book comes out, so one does not interfere with the other. We somehow coexist peacefully.
When you were asked to take on the job of translating, did you feel that you had to live up to the high expectations of the fans of the series?
Not at all. I did not think whether they should be justified, because I did not know anything about this series. I didn’t even know that she was so popular, that there was a whole fandom, all sorts of publics.
If I had known that the fans were almost ready to fight for this book, I would probably have been much more worried about such a responsibility. And so I quietly got to work.
Exi sports game around which the plot is built is fictitious. Was it difficult to translate the scenes with the description of ex? After all, you can’t just turn on the video on YouTube and watch the match!
Descriptions of some real sports are no less mysterious to me than exci. It turned out to be easier to deal with exsi than with the same baseball or rugby.
I was looking for something approximate and realized that this is lacrosse – it is also played with sticks with a net. But since axi, as the book says, is a mixture of football and lacrosse with the brutality of hockey, it was impossible to rely entirely on lacrosse.
“Fox Hole”, the first book in the “Everything for the sake of the game” series, was also published in the translation of Nadezhda Sechkina
In general, the editor and I approved many terms and names. We also found pictures of the stadium on the Internet. It was very convenient for me to rely on this scheme when translating.
As far as game descriptions are concerned, there are a lot of dynamics. And in order to reproduce this dynamics and not get bogged down in verbose descriptions, I drew experience from high-quality fantasy, specially read descriptions of competitions and battles – both duels and large-scale battles.
What helped you get ready for work and immerse yourself in the text?
When I started translating, I discovered the blog of the author Nora Sakavich on Tumblr – it’s just a storehouse of additional materials.
The author describes his characters in great detail, what happened to them before, what will happen later, what kind of relationship they have. She reveals details that help to better understand the characters’ personalities and their motivations.
In addition, there are a lot of arts dedicated to this series on Pinterest. These pictures make it easy to imagine the characters. There are a lot of fanclips on YouTube, and many of them are quite professional. And in general, I think that this is a very cinematic story, and it asks for the screen.
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The book has a very lively spoken language, and the characters are not at all shy in their expressions. How is it possible to achieve such an effect in translation?
It seems to me that it is much easier for modern translators in this respect than, for example, Soviet ones.
There is a lot of authentic material around: series, interviews, videos on YouTube – where we hear people of different ages and backgrounds speak.
And while translating, I ask myself the question: could a person say that in real life? Would a coach and his ward talk like that between themselves? Or two friends? Or irreconcilable enemies?
Sometimes it helps to read the dialogue aloud to understand if it sounds natural or not? You can also read to someone close or friends so that the other person can appreciate how close this dialogue is to real life. And again, you have to take into account both the social background and the relationship between the characters – is it permissible to use certain words, how far can you go in the use of jargon or obscene language. Is this not too much, or does the phrase look emasculated, but in the original it is very lively and bright.
In general, it is necessary to act by the method of live assessment – translation is almost like music: it must also fall on the ear.
There is an opinion that the original is always better than the translation, because it is impossible to translate without loss. Do you think a translator can deal with translation losses? Was there anything untranslatable in “Foxes”?
I believe that it is impossible to translate without loss. However, there are many ways to reduce them.
For example, if we are talking about some organization that we do not have in the country or do not have something similar, then it is permissible to give a footnote. Here in the “Foxes” there is an Athletic League, where the police help difficult teenagers, and in different forms: they hold sports events, take them on duty, and provide social support. We don’t have that, so I gave an explanation.
The Raven King will be published by Popcorn Books at the end of October
If it is a question of not being able to translate a phrase because some pun is lost, then putting a footnote is no longer an option.
As I was taught: if you can’t keep a joke in one sentence, give it a little later, compensate.
By the way, how does the work of a professional publishing translator differ from the hobby of translating books? Well, except for the translation fee, of course.
If with a hobby you can afford to relax and rest whenever you want, then discipline is needed here. Whether you like it or not, you can or you can’t, you need to dedicate several hours a day to translation.
In order for me not to be ashamed of the result, I need to work every day. I translate 6 days a week. Saturday is a reserve day in case of force majeure. On Sunday, I force myself to rest. But it happens that the book is already coming to an end, and it is simply impossible to stop, then I start translating on Sundays.
In general, this is daily work, which sometimes you don’t want to do, but you have to. I won’t say that every morning I wake up with the thought “Hurrah, hurrah, translate soon!” Sometimes I get up like a zombie, sit down at the computer with my eyes closed, force myself to wake up and get to work.
You are currently working on the third and final book in the series. Do not want to part with the heroes?
Oh, it won’t be long before I part with them! The third part is the most voluminous, and I will be translating it for a long time. The second year has already begun, as I was with the Foxes, one might say, I almost became related to them.
What to expect from the second part of the series for those who are not familiar with either the original or the fan translation? Only without spoilers!
To be honest, I’m not sure that such people still exist. It seems to me that everyone who read the first part has already re-read both the fan translation and the original 10 times.
In the second part, events will develop more dynamically. Several times I met in the reviews that the first part seems a bit long to someone.