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<p>The minute Matt Kolojejchick showed up in Rio to watch his sister play, her United States women&#8217;s field hockey team lost its first game of the Olympics.</p><p>Did the Larksville native bring a jinx with him to Brazil?</p><p>&#8220;Haha, the other field hockey families jokingly said the same,&#8221; Matt Kolojejchick, a former football standout for Wyoming Valley West and then the University of North Carolina, said in an email. &#8220;I responded by saying I came and brought the eye of the tiger.</p><p>&#8220;Sometimes you learn more from a loss than a win and I believe (Saturday&#8217;s) game was a testament.&#8221;</p><p>Team USA hopes so.</p><p>Their steak of four straight victories to open the Olympics was halted suddenly when Great Britain scored twice over the final eight minutes Saturday to pull out a 2-1 victory and earn the Group B title and top seed for the playoff week.</p><p>Now, former Wyoming Seminary stars Kelsey Kolojejchick, Kat Sharkey and the rest of Team USA will try to recover from that stinging defeat in time for Monday&#8217;s 11:30 a.m. Olympic quarterfinal game against Germany, which went 2-1-1 in Group A preliminary play.</p><p>&#8220;Monday&#8217;s game is a new season for them and is the game that really matters,&#8221; Doreen Kolojejchick, Kelsey&#8217;s mom, said in an email. &#8220;This loss has motivated them.</p><p>&#8220;Kelsey is more determined than ever!&#8221;</p><p>Both Kolojejchick and Sharkey started in an especially physical field hockey game that resulted in a 2-1 loss to Great Britain and dropped the USA to 4-1 overall and into the No. 2 seeding heading into elimination week.</p><p>But the result hardly hampered their ultimate goal &#8212; to bring home the nation&#8217;s first women&#8217;s field hockey Olympic medal since the United States captured a bronze by winning two games in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics that fielded just six teams.</p><p>&#8220;I think they have a shot,&#8221; said Harveys Lake resident Marge Garinger, a manager for that 1984 USA Olympic team who recently retired after spending more than 60 years as an official on the Northeastern Pennsylvania, collegiate, national and international levels. &#8220;They just have to keep going. They have to keep their minds straight.&#8221;</p><p>No problem there, according to Matt Kolojejchick, who Kelsey credited with playing a major role as part of her support system through their much younger years to now.</p><p>&#8220;Of course no one wants to lose,&#8221; Matt Kolojejchick emailed, &#8220;but if you were going to, (Saturday) was the best time to do it, as it only dropped them to a number two seeding. More importantly, (Saturday) showcased some areas of improvement the team will have to fix before heading into tomorrow game. Most importantly, it lighted a fire in my sister and her team.</p><p>&#8220;They will use this loss as motivation and come back stronger than they were before.&#8221;</p><p>Team USA says count on it.</p><p>&#8220;Focus has already shifted to our semifinal game,&#8221; Sharkey said through a USA field hockey spokesperson. &#8220;Obviously, a loss is going to fuel us and we&#8217;re going to come out with even more intensity on Monday.&#8221;</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Former Wyoming Seminary star Kelsey Kolojejchick and the rest of Team USA will face Germany in the women&#8217;s field hockey quarterfinals on Monday at 11:30 a.m. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_Kolo-India-6.jpg</photo0><caption0>Former Wyoming Seminary star Kelsey Kolojejchick and the rest of Team USA will face Germany in the women&#8217;s field hockey quarterfinals on Monday at 11:30 a.m. </caption0><photoCredit0>Dario Lopez-Mills | AP photo </photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_Sharkey-Aussie-4.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Wyomning Seminary grad Kat Sharkey said moments after the United States suffered its first loss of the Rio Olympics on Saturday that the team has already refocused on Monday&#8217;s game. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_Sharkey-Aussie-4.jpg</photo1><caption1>Wyomning Seminary grad Kat Sharkey said moments after the United States suffered its first loss of the Rio Olympics on Saturday that the team has already refocused on Monday&#8217;s game. </caption1><photoCredit1>Dario Lopez-Mills | AP photo </photoCredit1></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><subheadMeta>Former Wyoming Sem stars Kolojejchick, Sharkey know how to handle defeat</subheadMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Paul Sokoloski</p><p>psokoloski@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><factboxMeta><p><strong>ON TV</strong></p><p><strong>Women&#8217;s field hockey quarterfinals</strong></p><p><strong>USA vs. Germany</strong></p><p>11:30 a.m.</p><p>NBCSN</p></factboxMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Paul Sokoloski at 570-991-6392 or on Twitter @TLPaulSokoloski</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Sem grads Kelsey Kolojejchick and Kat Sharkey know how to recover from defeat: forget about it