MEN’S SOCCER WEEKLY REVIEW: Lancers Struggle Against Conference Foes

BY SCOTT MORRISON

The Lancers had a difficult week after they dropped games to Northwestern College, Dana College, and Buena Vista University.

On Tuesday, Sept. 18, the Lancers played host to preseason Great Plains Athletic Conference number two seed Northwestern College.

The Lancers, who were trailing 0-1 at halftime, could not contend with Northwestern’s team speed and lost the game 6-2.

For the Lancers (2-5-1), Josh Christiansen scored his first career goal off a corner kick in the second half. Senior co-captain Cesar Jaurez added the team’s other goal.

“Everyone was excited that Josh was able to pick up his first goal,” Lancers coach Dan Hendricks said.” “

Northwestern would put the game out of reach as they would be able to take advantage of a Lancer breakdown throughout the beginning portion of the second half.

“We played 60 minutes of good soccer,” Hendricks said. “We just need to learn to put 90 minutes and we will be fine.”

After dropping their game to Northwestern, they traveled to Blair, Neb. to face off against Dana in another conference battle.

At Dana, the Lancers experienced their toughest loss of the season as they fell 11-0.

Dana got off to a quick start by scoring two goals in the first two minutes. The Lancers would never recover.

“We just quit, we completely shutdown,” Hendricks said. “We lost a lot a confidence and after that it was hard to come back.”

The Lancers finished their weekend against Buena Vista University. They lost the contest 3-0 after a hard fought contest.

The game was even at 0-0 at halftime, but Buena Vista scored all three of their goals in twelve minutes after the start of the second half.

“It seems that after we give up the first goal we lose momentum and things go down hill from there,” Hendricks said. “We need to work on not panicking and limiting consecutive goals.”

The Lancers will have another tough week ahead of them as they will host Briar Cliff University on Wednesday and Doane college on Saturday.