| 1st | 2nd | Final | |
| Hesston |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Barton County |
3
|
4
|
7
|
1st Half – 1 BC goal Mario Ulloa (assist Cory Guilherme); 2 BC goal Cory Guilherme (assist Zack Roberts); 3 BC goal Stan Hubbard (assist Jose Ramos)
2nd Half – 4 BC goal Nick Webb (assist Ryan Daugherty); 5 BC goal Zack Roberts (unassisted); 6 BC goal Zack Roberts (assist Jimmy Bondurant); 7 BC goal Todd Brittingham (unassisted)
Shots on Goal: Hesston 0 Barton 16
Saves: HC Kyle Beun 6 Danny Yoder 3 BC Trevor Laborda 0
Coach's Comments--
A beautiful day for a soccer game
turned into a day we wish we could forget. Coming into the game on a
four-game losing streak was difficult in of itself, but things were
not going to get any easier playing against one of the best teams in
the Region away from home. Barton County had just come off a solid win
last Saturday against perennial Region VI powerhouse and undefeated
Cloud County 3-1. Cloud is always competing for the our regional championship
year after year. So for Barton to beat them 3-1 says a lot about them.
We knew that this was going to be a tough game.
Things started out fairly well as
Hesston was able to not only thwart most of Barton’s initial attacks,
but were able to move the ball around. At first I thought our only problem
might be that we weren’t being aggressive enough in our attack
by making too many short passes and not enough through passes to put
us up the field faster. But then things started to fall apart. Hesston
found itself down 1-0 fifteen minutes into the game as Mario Ulloa beat
a couple Hesston defensemen in the box to score the games first goal.
Mario is easily the best player in our region and will definitely be
an All-American candidate by season’s end. I knew he would cause
us problems. He’s very quick with excellent ball skills. Craig
Mast actually took the ball from him a couple of times today. That’s
the first time I’ve ever seen anyone take the ball from him. Which
says a lot about both players.
The Larks began to unravel after
the second goal scored by Barton’s fast, quick and slippery forward
Cory Guilherme. Guilherme placed a hard shot just beyond the reach of
Hesston’s keeper Kyle Beun. At the point they scored their second
goal I was just wishing the clock would move faster. We were playing
into the wind and getting very disorganized. Had the half ended right
there I think we could have regrouped. But the time seemed to creep
by for the Larks as Barton scored yet one more goal before the end of
the half. Defensively we just weren’t recovering and moving quick
enough as we had in previous games. Too many players were getting caught
watching the ball instead of focusing on their defensive responsibilities.
Offensively we were putting some nice passes together at times but not
being aggressive enough going to goal.
The second half only saw things
get worse as BC tallied 4 more goals. It was a bad day all the way around
it was difficult to find much positive about the game especially the
second half. For the first time this season I thought several players
just gave up and that disappoints me more than the score. Even in the
Neosho game when we didn’t play well we still battled hard. Today
it just looked like guys weren’t mentally ready to play and when
things went bad it was clear that some wished they’d never gotten
out of bed.
The Larks get a much need day of
rest before they prepare for their away match against Rhema Bible College
in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma on Tuesday September 24.