Austin College 0 - 1 Centre College

It was a great atmosphere on Friday with the Susan G Komen Game II. We presented over $5000 to the foundation, and the support shown by the fans in the pink shirts was amazing.

This was a hard game to lose. We have never defeated Centre in conference play, but we felt we had a good chance. With just 4 minutes of the game played, Centre had a throw in deep into our half. We knew that they had a long throw, but struggled to defend it all game. The ball was thrown into the box and just went off Matt Dickinson's (Paris, TX) fingertips and into the goal. It was a deflating goal, but we kept fighting.

Although we were out-shot 28-10 in the game, we had a number of good chances. Alex Dawson (Spring, TX) had a couple of good chances and got 3 shots off, despite being tightly marked all game. Miles Vaughn (Grapevine, TX) was consistently good for us in the midfield and helped us hold much of the possession at times in the second half.

Centre defended their corner kicks with 11 in the box. To counter that, we came back with a quick pass to the top of the box with Grant Gibson (Clinton, MS) running on from 30 yards out. Grant unloaded with a cannon shot on goal, but was deflected at the last second for another corner.

Just as the game was winding down, Alex Dawson blocked a drop kick by Centre's goalkeeper. It was a great heads up play by Alex, but the referee didn't think so and gave Dawson his second yellow card of the game, sending him off the field and ineligible to play against DePauw.

It was a tough lose, but we had to put it behind us. We needed to use the same passion we had against Centre and play the same way against DePauw.