Lincoln Land has been one of the top teams in Region 24 for the past three years. Coach Noonan does a very good recruiting some top notch talent and it shows in his games. When we drove to Springfield last Saturday I knew that we were stepping on the pitch with the 15th ranked NJCAA Division l team in the nation. However I had a feeling that if played the kind of game that we played at SWIC that we would give them a good match.
We played high energy, intense soccer for 90 minutes. I thought we did a good job of possessing the ball and we had the ball in the attacking third plenty of times, but we couldn't find the net. Lincoln Land scored four goals. All four of them were on set pieces. That says a lot about our defense. They did their job by shutting down the runs and the through balls. But LLCC's height was to much for us on corners and set pieces. We didn't match up well with them on those plays.
We had three really good scoring opportunities but we failed to convert them into goals. When we play a team of this caliber we have to make good on those goal scoring opportunities in order for us to have a chance to win the game.
I was pleased with our boys, they played hard and would not quit even when we were down.
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