Sunday, September 13, 2009:

Well, our season continues to unfold in a most positive manner. Yesterday (Saturday, September 12), we defeated a very good Washington and Lee University team 2:1 at the Kyle Rote, Jr. Invitational at Sewanee, TN. The game did not start as planned, as we had a one and one-half hour delay, due to the officials for our game not showing. So, instead of starting at 12 noon, we kicked off at 1:30 PM. We had our pre-game meat at 8 AM giving us our 4 hour window before the game and had our 30 minute warm-up as usual, only to find out we must wait for the officials. Well, they never showed. The game officials for the 2nd game showed at 1:15 PM, so we used them.

The game kicked off and we started off quite well and scored in the 21st minute off a nice ball played by Tony Crocker to Nico Reitmeier, who then sent a ball through to a cutting Tyler Evans, who finished off to make the score 1:0. We kept up the pressure and had some more great opportunities, with one hitting the crossbar by Sean Head. The half ended at 1:0. We started the 2nd half the same way and scored in the 57th minute off a corner kick from Andrew Shelton to Tyler Evans, who took a half volley and put it away in the upper ninety of the far post. It was a beautiful goal. That made it 2:0. Now, we seemed to be rolling, until the wheels started coming off. We started making some very bad mistakes defensively in and around the midfield area and finally, Washington and Lee scored in the 68th minute off a throw-in and a very poor clearance by us to the 18 yard mark to one of their players, who put it in the goal to make the score 2:1. We were able to hold on a take our 3rd win of the season and giving up our very first goal. We out-shot them by a margin of 10-2.

We must now learn how to play on a very small field and not make so many unforced errors, especially defensively. Our thought process and touch and passing was very poor today probably because we only had one true training session last week due to the field being unplayable due to all the rain we had. Again, we have to learn how to have more concentration, especially under these circumstance alluded to above. If we can do this, we have the potential to become a very good team.

In closing, I would like to thank our parents who were in attendance for getting our team some snacks while we were waiting for an hour and a half for the game to start. It certainly helped our guys get some much needed nourishment. So, again thank you very much. It is a tribute to our guys, who faced the adversity of a long game delay and lack of training last week, to come out on a small field and do what was necessary to overcome these odds and win the game to remain unbeaten on this young season.

Today, we play Emory and Henry and hopefully, with less than 24 hours rest, we will have a good game and continue our winning season in a positive way. I will rec-cap this game and preview our upcoming trip to St. Louis tomorrow. So, until then keep us in your thoughts.

With my very best regards,
Coach Goldfarb from Sewanee, TN