Hey long time no talk. It has been a crazy couple of weeks for the team. We have had some big ups and big downs, and are looking just past the mid point of the season. We just got back from southern California, and we didn’t get the job done.
We took a bus down south with the girls team, and despite the fact that it was long hours we managed to have a good time watching movies and sleeping. On the day of the UCSD game, we just hung out because the game was at 7pm and we really didn’t want to do anything before the game.
I love night games and their field is beautiful. The atmosphere was awesome. We have a lot of guys on our team from San Diego, so it had the feeling of a home game. The game was a big one for us, we had just come off the biggest win of the season over Cal State Los Angeles, and were looking to put a streak together. San Diego was a good team, and the score didn’t tell how hard the game was. We came out a little shaky, but once we settled down we started to see most of the action start go our way. We didn’t find the net in the first half, but we were playing well and getting a lot of good play from our wingers.
Lafon went down early in the second half, and subsequently would miss the next game, but more on that later. Mark Wiedeman stepped up big for us in his place, and torched their defense to set up the first goal, which Ben slid in to get us on the board. It was Wiedeman again creating the second goal and hooking up with Ben on a great cross and header finish at the back post. Cam Vickers, who also played very well on the wing, set up the second goal, beating his man and crossed the ball to the back post. Wiedeman would head the ball back into the middle where Nate came flying in to put the nail in the coffin. At the very end Davide would slip in and drop the ball back to Alan who would cap the scoring for the day, but not before we celebrated with a dance party hosted by Alan. Their field is so beautiful, and will be the spot for the CCAA tournament later in the year.
Saturday we traveled up to Carson and trained on the David Beckham soccer academy field. Our training wasn’t super sharp, but we got a little 'loosen up' session in, and even got to see Sarah Palin drive by after her speech at the Home Depot Center.
Sunday was the day that I had circled on my calandar for a long time. We have built quite a rivalry with Dominguez Hills over the past few years, and it is always a slobber knocker of a game. As I mentioned before Lafon didn’t play, and I was limited in minutes because of an ankle injury from the previous game. We fought hard, but didn’t have a great game. Our intensity was on and then off for most of the game, and we turned the ball over an awful lot. Give them credit because they are a very good team, whose defense is probably one of the best in the nation. We never really got anything going on offense, but our defense played well and held us in the game. We ended giving up a soft goal, but the story of the day was the fact that we didn’t put any numbers on the board, and we are not going to win anything if we don’t score. We played well enough to tie, and they played well enough to win.
The drive back was long, but spirits were ok. Losing to Dominguez Hills is not a bad loss, but we could have put forth a better effort. This weekend is a big one for us, but then again when is a game not big for us? We play San Bernardino, and Cal Poly Pomona, who are both going to test us, but we are back at home ready to play some Noma Soccer.
I'll try to keep the blog going a little stronger, but until then this is Bailey signing out.
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