Our struggles on the road continued Saturday night as we fell to the AMCC defending Champion Medaille College 2-0. Medaille came into the game as a highest scoring team in the nation averaging 4.6 goals per game.
The match kind of mirrored our entire season so far: We started the game without our starting centerback Greg Bistany, central midfielder Mike Bistany, and our other starting center midfielder Sean Jones was knocked out of the game by half time with a fracured nose and a gash above his eye that would require 13 stitches. The only game this season where we have had what we consider our starting line up was the first game of the season and only one player has started all 11 games.
I thought we put together a good first half. We had a great work rate and macthed their intensity. The backline was well organized and only surendered one or two scoring opportunities to the Mavericks. The second half was a little more one sided as we seemed to defend most of the half and did not posess the ball in the attacking thrid. Once again our inability to defend set pieces would cost us. Medaille's first goal would be the result of a knock down on corner kick that was poorly cleared down the middle of the box and the rebound was sent back in before our keeper could recover. The second goal was a penalty kick.
We now find ourselves at the bottom of the conference with an 0-3 record, but with 7 games remaining I am confident that we will start to climb the table and position ourselves appropriately for the AMCC playoffs.
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