The Titans faced one formidable foe today in Oneonta State who defeated the Titans 4-0. We were outshot by a large margin (22-7) and were smacked around by a team who was bigger, faster, stronger, and just a better team than us. Oneonta was 18-3-1 last year and returns 10 of the starters off that team. This is an excellent team who has the makings of a long run into the NCAA tournament if they stay healthy and get a bit of luck during the season. This hopefully will be excellent preparation for tough in region games upcoming against Chicago, Wash U, Loras, Wheaton, Augustana, and Carthage. However, we have to actually put into play the lessons of today, and not just talk about it. Hopefully we can do that Sunday.
Enough about how good they were today. We fortunately playing right away tomorrow morning against Hartwick College. Indications are that Hartwick are not as strong as our opponents today. We need to put the lessons of today into play right away tomorrow and regain some of our confidence.
It has been an interesting trip so far. We barely made our flight out of O'Hare (traffic and a couple of players late to the bus caused the delay), however the folks at American Airlines were superb in getting us through security, checking bags, and holding the plane. When all was said and done, we arrived at the check in desk at 7:20 and the plane pushed back from the gate at 8:02, so kudos to everyone (including our girls who rallied and sprinted across the airport) for making it happen. The tournament here is awesome. They run a first rate tournament here at the Mayor's Cup, very well organized from start to finish so far. We played on a great field today at Oneonta and tomorrow's field is also going to be an awesome surface to play on. We also made a visit to the National Soccer Hall of Fame yesterday and got a team picture taken with the Women's World Cup trophy our US team won back in 1999. Aside from the result today, the trip has been good for us so far. Now if we can just get a win tomorrow....
Go Titans!
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