| 1st | 2nd | Final | |
| Rhema |
1
|
1
|
2
|
| Hesston |
0
|
0
|
0
|
Coach's Comments--
Hesston gets back into action after
fall break against Rhema Bible College with a rare afternoon home game.
I was really worried that the break would affect our play. We had practice
on Tuesday and Wednesday but for different reasons not everyone could
be there. Hesston did appear a bit off as Rhema got on the board with
16 minutes left in the first half. Hesston seemed to have trouble in every
aspect of the game as they had trouble passing the ball, clearing the
ball, and containing on defense. It was clear from the start that we were
just off. We just couldn’t execute even simple things. It was really
frustrating to watch.
Rhema got its first goal with 16 minutes
left in the first half when Hesston turned the ball over deep in its own
end and then failed to clear the ball when they had the chance. We were
making lots of silly mistakes and it finally caught up with us when they
scored that first goal.
The second half started off much the
same as the first half ended. Rhema got its second goal 25 minutes into
the second half. Just another case where we for some reason could not
clear the ball out the box. Really we gave them twoeasy goals. If a team
is going to score on you at least make them work for it. We didn’t
make them work for their goals.
Hesston’s fortune looked as if
it might turn around. Andy Krabill took a nice through ball and had a
nice breakaway on goal but managed to only put the shot right at the Rhema
keeper. The Larks just couldn’t find the back of the net and chalked
up another scoreless loss. After their second goal the guys finally started
to get their touch back. We had many opportunities on goal but just didn’t
put many shots on goal let alone in the goal. We had so many shots go
sailing over the goal. We really didn’t test out their keeper. We
made his job easy because we couldn’t keep the ball down. We played
fairly well for about the last 24 minutes but, of course, that’s
just not going to get the job done.
It’s disappointing that we played
so poorly. Rhema isn’t a bad team but they are a team that really
we should beat. I think the break had a lot to do with it. I also blame
myself. I didn’t do a very good job getting them prepared for this
game after our break. When the whole team is having problems I as their
coach have to take much of the responsibility. The brightest spot for
us was the play on Danny Yoder in goal. Danny made two or three spectacular
saves. If not for his great play the game would have been a much bigger
loss.
The Larks don’t get much time
to mull over the loss, as their next game will be tomorrow October 18th
at 3 p.m. against Haskell Indian Nations University at home.