On the Road

The Trinity University Tigers men’s soccer team looking to redeem themselves after the season opener shocker faced two tough opponents on the road. The two games occurred at Southwestern University facing Texas Lutheran University and University of Texas at Tyler. After the harsh defeat and a complete team reevaluation we felt ready to prove to the nation that we deserve to be thought of as one of the best, and we set out to prove it. After almost a two hour van ride we arrived at our hotel and began to prepare ourselves for the game, having a team meeting that night and the following morning. Upon game time it seemed as if we were ready, with no fear of another Mary Hardin-Baylor relapse. The game began and to our surprise we still were suffering many of the same problems that we faced during the previous game. We were not talking, or moving well for each other losing the ball consistently showing no real threat to the other team. The one thing that held us together was our defense lead by our captain Allen LIobet. Still unable to put the ball in the back of the net we were only able to score one goal against Texas Lutheran, but with are defensive effort we were able to pull away with a one to nil victory. We knew the game against UT Tyler was going to be a struggle and still a disappointed by our weak performance against Texas Lutheran we were starting to hope for a better performance. Right from the beginning we came out strong with Josh Adams scoring a goal in the thirteenth minute and in the seventeenth min. Felling confident by our early lead we started to play like we had in the two previous games preceding a goal in the thirty first minute. During half time we knew we would need an early goal to put them away, which we accomplish only a minute and thirty seconds into the second half. We allowed one more goal in the seventy seventh minute but we continued to dominate them for the rest of the game never really allowing them to come close to tying it up. We went on to win the game three to two with just a little bit more confidence after playing what we felt was our first successful game against a pretty good team.