Today we played Fontbonne University in the final game of the tournament. We have played them twice before, both times at their field and had never given up a goal and never lost to them. Well, today was a different story. We lost the game 1:2. Actually, that score was a fair representation of the game. We had no business winning the game the way we played today. I knew in the locker room, we were going to be in trouble. We had no emotion, no sense of urgency and certainly no real desire to do the things to turn our game around. Fontbonne deserved the win.
Fontbonne scored 4 minutes into the game, when our goalkeeper turned a 60-40 chance ball into a 50-50 ball after he called our defenders off. He got there late and could not recover to anything with the ball. Consequently, the ball came back out to their player who put the ball into an empty net. Score Fontbonne 1, BSC 0. The game was really poorly played by us and we never found any kind of rhythm or flow. Midway through the second half we had a nice cross in from the right side by Carter McLean and the ball came out to Garner Shivers on the 18 yard mark for a full volley into the upper portion of the net. Score stood BSC 1, Fontbonne 1. We hade plenty of time left to secure a victory, but we reverted back to sloppy passes and poor defending.We continued to dive in on defense and allow them to go by us without any trouble. In the 84th minute, Garner Shivers received a yellow card for dissent and then a red card right after that for alledgedly running into the ref. The video is clear that Garner was walking in a straight path and the ref moved to initiate the touching, if there truly was any touching. Probably the worst call I have seen in my 28 years of coaching here. Certainly Garner had no business dissenting at the ref for the call in the first place.One minute later, in the 85th minute and time winding down, Fontbonne had a corner and sentthe ball in to the box and it was headed in on the far post to an unmarked man for the goal. Score now Fontbonne 2, BSC 1. With less than 35 seconds to go in the game Fontbonne had a hand ball in the box and we were awarded a penalty kick. True to the way the game went and our play, we missed the penalty kick. Time ran out and we lost 1:2.Our record for the season, now stands at 1 win, 1 loss and 1 tie.
I really do not mind losing, as you have bad games sometimes, but what disturbs me and I really can not handle, is that we did not have any emotion or sense of urgency throughout the game. It appeared as if we really did not want to be on the field. We have got to find the players that played Saturday night again and those players have got to learn to be more consistent every game and then if you have a bad game, something good can still come out of it!
We are taking tomorrow off and will resume training on Wednesday in preparation for the Kyle Rote Invitational at the University of the South, in Sewanee, TN. Our first game is on Saturday at 2:00 PM against the University of the Ozarks and on Sunday, at 2:00 PM against Huntingdon College. In this tournament, we will not have a day to rest, so we must be ready to play back to back and play with desire, emotion and consistency. I hope to see you there.
Coach G from BSC
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