MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SOCCER WEEKLY REVIEW: Lancers fall to USF, Dordt

BY SCOTT MORRISON

The Lancers soccer program continued to struggle through conference play last week. Both the men’s and women’s team dropped games to the University of Sioux Falls and Dordt College.

The Lancer men fell to USF 5-1 after allowing the first five goals. They were able to score the final goal of the match.

After limiting the Cougars to two goals in the first half, the Lancers had trouble with containing them in the second half.

“They say that the toughest lead to hold in soccer is 2-0,” Lancer coach Dan Hendricks said. “You start to feel comfortable, yet only one goal will give the other team enough momentum to comeback.”

“We were trying to go off of this principle, but we had trouble holding the lead,” Hendricks said.

The Lancers lone goal came after Rogelio Duran played a pass through to Jose Garcia who found himself on a break-away.

Garcia beat the goal keep for his team leading fifth goal of the season.

The MMC men were unable to defeat Dordt College as they were shutout 6-0 in Sioux Center, Iowa.

“In comparison to our game against USF, I though out performance against Dordt was good,” Hendricks said. “We had trouble handling one of their forwards, but besides that we played well as a group.”

We did have some trouble with defensive organization and staying onsides,” Hendricks said. “We knew who we had to keep track of and we just couldn’t do it.”


The Lancer women were also unable to defeat USF. They were shutout as they lost the match 2-0.

“We didn’t feel like we played as good as we could have and as good as we have recently,” Hendricks said. “We had an off-day. We were not ready to play.”

The Lancers gave up their first goal midway through the first quarter. Then allowed the last one with twenty minutes left in the match.

Despite the inability to break the Cougar defense, the Lancers tightened their defense and allowed a 2007 team conference low by only allowing two goals.

The Lancers women had a difficult time handling the Dordt women as they lost 6-1 on Saturday.

Dordt gradually built the score to 6-0 and then sophomore Lauren Donlin scored with 15 minutes remaining to make it 6-1.

Donlin’s goal was her tenth of the season, just two goals away from a MMC record of 12 goals. The record was set by Donlin in her freshman season.

The Lancers will play Wednesday in their final home game of the season against Dakota Wesleyan at 1:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.

They will travel to Seward, Neb. to face Concordia University in their final game of the season. The games will be at 4:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.