Warrior Wednesday

Tough hot Wednesday here on campus but a great day for practice nonetheless.

Headed into the weight room for a quick lift with Mark before practice:

Warm up, then 5 sets of bench, (6 x 135lbs warm up, 5 x 145 lbs, 5 x 155 lbs, 4 x 160 lbs, 1.5 x 165 lbs, 7 x 135 lbs) Lots of chest, didn't anticipate having no other time for auxiliary lifts but it was better than nothing. Ended with a 10 min. ab rotation.

Then hit the field:

Small sided 3v6 possession games

45 min of 18 to 18 11v11 game. Played well and felt good

Then ended with a series of sprints.

In all it was a good day of intense activity...looking forward to an off day with only a light run tomorrow.

Also happy Caleb's surgery went well this afternoon...now time for his comeback!

Catch Up

No practice or workout today but happy to have a chance to catch up on some stuff. Good classes and meetings this afternoon....had a good catch up chat with Brian, glad things are going well in NC. Tonight we hosted some local high schools on our game field as a team fundraiser...had a good time working that as well.

Also thoughts a prayers for my room mate, Caleb, who will be undergoing knee surgery tomorrow afternoon. Hoping he will recover quickly and will be 100% recovered and ready to roll for next fall - we will need him in the back line.

Battle Won

In the war towards a conference title, we were able to win our first battle. And a battle it was.

Averett University, who is always a tough opponent, came in strong. It began with a terrible tackle against our right back Kyle Rose, who hurt his knee. The other player moaned on the ground for awhile, received attention from our trainer, then popped back up to play the rest of the time while Kyle was forced out of the game with a diagnosis pending this week. Glad to see Caleb Baker, who has been itching for some minutes in the right back position, go into the game and play very well. Then disaster, Averett (who's game plan is a classic DIII booting long ball strategy) played a set piece into our box and scored. Thankfully it was called back offsides. We continued to fight and Sean Moriarty was able to snag a good goal in the 18th minute from the top of the box. I came in with about 10 to go and played very hard. Got a great pass in the box from our outside midfielder, beat the center back, turned the corner, and played a great ball across the 6 yd. box- unfortunately the keeper made a great save from our outside mid's shot.

Went into half time up 1-0. Then the battle continued. Went in at the 20 minute mark and played less than 10 minutes to give Lybert some rest. Had some good passes and combinations, then went to the bench to anxiously watch our guys finish out the game. Winston had many opportunities to finish the game off and eventually did so after receiving a nice through ball and making a pass outside the keeper's reach to the far post. Battle won, #2 national ranking maintained, leg feeling good, looking forward to the week ahead.

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