AC 0 - UMHB 2

We traveled to Round Rock on Friday evening where we would be staying for the weekend. Our first game would be back up in Belton and then in Austin on Sunday.

Saturday morning we had a pregame meal at the hotel and then headed to Belton for our Noon kick-off. We knew that Mary Hardin-Baylor would be a challenge as they had just swept Southwestern and Trinity the previous weekend...not easy feat. They would enter the game undefeated and ranked #11 nationally.

This AC team has all the elements to be a very good team, we are in the process of working out the kinks. With injuries to some key players to start the season, it is a work in progress. One of those elements is how we start games. We have given up the first goal in every game we have played. Not ideal. A focus that we will carry into this week of training.

The game would open with both teams feeling each other out. UMHB had the better part of play the firt part of the first half. AC couldn't gather much possession and forced that issue too much at times. Substitutes would make the difference for the Roo's in the first half as senior Garrett Evans(Duncanville, TX), coming off injury, would make his first appearance for the Roo's this season. Evans helped settle the offense and simplify our attack. In addition, senior Jason Campbell(Kingston, Jamaica) would do the same and create our best chances in the first period. Neither team would find the net however, and the half would end 0-0.

The second half would prove to be better for AC in terms of possession, but it would be our defensive presence that would struggle. UMHB would notch the first goal of the game just under 10 minutes into the second half. Poor decisions on our defensive end would lead to an unassisted goal for UMHB and put AC once again in a hole. AC would create some chances with junior Chris Stein(Allen, TX) getting off a couple solid opportunities as well as junior Sam Temple(Paris, TX). UMHB would outshoot AC 14-12, however AC would register 7 shots on goal as compared to UMHB's 6, forcing their keeper to make 7 saves. None would find the net however and UMHB would add a second in the 78th minute to go 2-0. An easily avoidable goal off a major error on our part. Nonetheless, this would be how the game would finish and give UMHB credit, they are doing what it takes to win. A solid team that will win a lot of games this year.

The loss would put our record at 1-2-1 on the year but we would be able to rebound the next day with a match against another American Southwest opponent, Concordia University.