Coach's Comments

2003 Titans

5/01/03 - Kuemper
It's a win but it wasn't something to write home about. We played our hearts out and against Kuemper tonight, we were just always on the short side of the stick, and bad bounces. Even though is was a bounce in our favor that won it in OT. The game started out with great ball movement, good talking and a quick goal down the middle by Jesse Smith just 7 minutes into the game. After that it was all defense and boom ball on both sides. With a 1-0 lead at the half I told them that at this point Kuemper had it in there heart and they were felling like they are winning. Sure enough just four and a half minutes into the second half they came out and tied up the game. Josh Grosvenor got held in the box with 6 minutes left in the game and we had a chance to go up on top. Luke Thomson takes the Penalty Kick and puts it high and over the goal. The game ends 1-1 and we go to OT. We changed up the offense to a different formation and I told them talk, pass shot and lets go home. 2:30 into the OT Josh Probst takes a shot from the top of the key and hits the cross bar. It comes down and bounces off one of them and the keeper misses it. The game is over, we win, let's go home. We will focus on shooting and finishing up on the attack tomorrow and Saturday. I told them that I am ready to start moving people around and mixing things up. We have some that are not playing up to their potential and we have others on the bench who are chomping at the bit to get in. We will see what practice brings the next two days and if we are ready for Glenwood. We beat them earlier at their house, you know they will come to town ready top play on Monday.

JV didn't lose but it didn't win tonight either. They played a very good, totally dominated the whole game but just couldn' finish. We had lots of opportunities we just couldn't put it away. Like the Varsity we will focus on some different shooting drills and preach finsh, finish, finish. JV lost to Glenwood last time we played so we have something to prove.

Thank you all for your support and your visits to our page. Keep checking back I will post different things off and on. Interested in how the boys did and what they look like, then check out the 2003 Varsity Squad & Stats and 2003 Junior Varsity Squad & Stats pages to see our running season stats. Check back again for more comments.