Sunday, November 8, 2009:

This is my next to last re-cap for our season. My last one will be next Friday, after we conclude our season against a very old rival from our NAIA years, Berry College. They, too have decide to move from the NAIA to NCAA Division III, beginning next year. This should be a fun game to re-kndle a once storied rivalry.

This week-end we played our last two Conference games. On Friday, we played a very good Colorado College team and while we played poorly for 70 minutes, we decided to finally play in the last 20. We scored 2 goals to win 2:1. Kyle Sherrin came on in the 70th minute and scored the tying goal in the 74th minute off a cross from Tyler Evans. 11 minutes later, Kyle scored again off an assist from Tony Crocker. We felt we made a little progress from precious games in the last 20 minutes to carry us in to today's game with Austin College. That did not happen! We got behind early on extremely poor defending (3 players had a chance top clear the ball and didn't), resulting in Austin's first goal. late in the half, we scored a nice goal off a corner from Andrew Shelton to Tyler Evans, who headed the ball in the back of the net, to make it 1:1 at the half. We stressed intensity of purpose during the half and also about better first touches and better passing with hard runs. In the first part of the 2nd half, it looked like we were going to score, but 2 chances back to back went for nothing. Late in the half, they had a free kick from 40 yards and played it in to the box, where they headed the winning goal. Final score BSC 1, Austin College 2. This was our first loss at home all season and it couldn't have come at a worse time. That loss drops us to a 3 way tie fro 3rd in the Conference.

I really do not have a lot to say, other than it was poor execution, poor passing, poor clearances and extremely soft and timid tackles. Turning your body, is not hard play, but scared play and we have perfected that technique to a science. I am extremely disappointed in the total effort of our team. Something positive to say after this loss, is hard to find. Hopefully, we will find something deep down to finally say "Never Again!"

Coach G from BSC