Phoenixville - Game summary

Housekeeping Items:

• Home Games:Do NOT climb, jump or vault over the fence. You MUST use the gate.
  
• Varsity: You are to be at the field at 3:00 dressed and ready to warm up.
  
• JV: You will play after varsity. Usually about 5:30 your game will begin. Please take the time to do your homework. You are to stay at the field and not roam around. You can volunteer to be ball boys for varsity (four are needed). Two will be inside the fence and two will be outside the fence.
• Rest rooms are available in the building instead of using the port-a-potty.

Huh and What?
We score first from a tremendous throw from Kane (assist) that the keeper gets a piece of BUT Sein-Lwin is there to walk the ball in. This extends our scoring streak to 6 games. This is a record for Pius. We have not been shutout.
We pressured and just plain got some luck when their forwards could not carry the ball.
Most crosses I have ever seen by a Pius team. Unfortunately about 30% were short. That is WHAT allowed them to have quick counter attacks.
We also had them offsides a ton the first half. They fixed that in the second half by just allowing 3-4 yards in front of the defender. Our defenders allowed that to do just that.
WHAT also allowed them to cross the ball to the running outside mid was simply the lack of immediate pressure by our mids and forwards. Most of the time it was an after thought instead of being instinctive.
Huh? They come back and score two in the remaining 7 minutes to take the lead at the half.
Okay - so we have a game.
Huh? They score a third goal and as Kane and Budnick said "We quit. We gave up. Why do we do that?" Heck if I know.
Well I do know.
It's called pride, self esteem or self respect.
It is one of the seven deadly sins..... but not in this context. We, as a team. lack this.
As Webster's defines it:

• 1: the quality or state of being proud: as
• a: inordinate self-esteem
• b: a reasonable or justifiable self-respect
• c: delight or elation arising from some act.

Are YOU proud of the way YOU played the WHOLE game?
Did you try your hardest all of the time or just some of the time?
Did you take the extra step to the ball in an attempt to win it?
Did you go up and try to win the ball in the air or did you just stand and watch as teh other team won the ball?
Why not? Why did you give up?

This must end and end NOW.

Players of the day: Meszaros and Budnick. Honorable Mention: Reilly and Quigley.
L 8-1. Game grade- first half - B. Second half - F. Overall record: 2-4. pac10: 1-3.