Tuesday, September 29th, 2009:

Sorry for the delay in writing this post about our game on Sunday, against Hendrix College (conference foe), but is was for us Jews, the Holiest day in the year....Yom Kippur. That is the Day of Atonement, in which we ask forgiveness for all our sins of the past year and perform a 24 hour fast as part of the atonement. It was a good day, ending with family at our home for a break the fast dinner. It was great!

Now, on to the re-cap from Sunday's game. The field was still an issue, due to over 10 inches of rain during this month (the most in our recorded history). We scored first with a terrific goal. Nico Reitmeier play a ball through to Tyler Evans, who finished a perfect goal to make the score 1:0. The rest of the half was a repeat of Friday night, where we just could not get into any type of rhythm to create our flow. We kept pressing, but the score would end 1:0 at the half. We came out to start the second half, like we finished the first...not in a rhythm at all. We certainly foud some chances but all for naught. Then in the 80th minute, Tyler Evans was sent through on the outside and he made a cut around the end and played a perfect up, back and through ball back toward the 18 yard box, where Kenan Le Parc dummied the ball and Tony Crocker put an exclamation point on the game with a wonderful right footed finish to make the score 2:0! That is how the game would end, with our record now standing at 7 wins 1 loss and 0 ties with 5 shutouts in our first 8 games!

I would not call that win a pretty win, but sometimes good teams find ways to win "ugly". We certainly mastered that on Sunday. Overall the week-end, despite the weather and field conditions, was a great week-end and start of conference play for us. We have told the team, that last year we "Hoped" to win and beginning this year we "Thought" we "Could" win and now we told them we now "Know" we "Will" win! We have moved from 'Hope" to "Thinking" to "Knowing". It is the right way for this team. We must continue to work harder each and every day and not take anything for granted. Every team we play, takes special pride in wanting to beat us. This has not changed since we played in the NAIA to NCAA Division I and now to NCAA Division III. We are the spoiled boys of BSC. That is okay, as long as we continue to remember where we came from in order to get to where we are going and realizing that we are indeed spoiled, but we know how to deal with it......Winning!!

We will travel to play Sewanee on Friday night and then Oglethorpe on Sunday at noon. We must play better and keep up our "Knowing"!!!!

So, until this week-end, I will say, have a great week.

Best regards,
Coach Goldfarb from Birmingham, Alabama