NDC Soccer Results

The Soccer Results :

I am writing this blog on the van on the way back from Roberts Wesleyan College. We played one of the most important matches of the season today. This match could decide if we have a good chance of going to the final national championship at Fresno Pacific University in California.
Before going into the match we had a conference result of 7-0-0, which made us the number 1 in the NAIA American Mideast Conference. On the second place was Roberts Wesleyan University with a result of 6-1-0 and on the third place our big rival Rio Grande University with 6-1-1 as a result. This means that the gap between us and Roberts Wesleyan was 3 points and the difference between us and Rio Grande is five points.
After our good 2-1 win against Walsh University earlier this week, we stepped on the pitch with good confidence. Although the weather was freezing, the pitch was shit and the referees were gay, Luke Holmes and Steven Kane both managed to score a goal in the first half, which resulted in a comfortable advantage going into half time. The second half we kept up the good work even with the weather getting worse and worse. Midfielder Jack Fitzgerald and defenders Dan Knight and Jonny Morris played an outstanding match and managed to keep the Wesleyan-players tight. Although we created more and more opportunities in the second half, RWC scored a goal from a lucky strike in about 20 minutes before fulltime. This made us wet our pants as we had the Ashland-game in the back of our minds, where we lost 2-1 in the last 20 minutes after being on a 1-0 advantage. Finally the ref blew his whistle to end the game with the final score at 2-1. Everybody was really happy and me in particular because I got a chance to play some minutes in both the end of the first half and the end of the second half.
Winning tonight means that we increased the margin between our rivals and with only 3 matches left in the conference, the Falcons are incredibly close to the championship title and have a good chance of going to the nationals in California also. The thing now is that we must not sit back and relax for the last matches. Although 2 of the 3 teams we will play are low-rated in the conference and although we only have to win 2 out of 3 matches to insure our title, underestimation can ruin all our good work if we don’t look out.

Concluding I think that we have an incredibly good team. It is probably the best team I ever played in and I think the international mix of players works out very well and if we keep up the good work, we will be playing in California in December!!!!