Boy’s soccer fights for seat in district tournament
Junior Dominic Martini passes to teammate junior Brandon Ware in a match against Munford High.
April 12, 2010 • written by Lauren Haley
Filed under Sports
The Bartlett High School boy’s soccer team has started off the season with a record of 1-3. The boys have faced off against Cordova, Bolton, Munford, and Raleigh-Egypt so far.
Due to losses against Cordova, Bolton, and Raleigh-Egypt, the boys are now fighting for a good seat in the fast approaching district tournament.
Although they were off to a rocky start, the boys pulled a win over Munford on April 1, with a final score of 4-3, after keeping a lead over Munford thoughout the entire game.
In the game against Bolton, sophomore Josh Ballard scored the only goal and also two goals in the Munford game.
The boys still have a chance to earn a good seat in districts because they still have a game every Tuesday and Thursday for the rest of April.
One of the team’s strengths is how well they play together.
“In my opinion our strengths would be how we are and team and we work as a unit. Yeah, we have our struggles, but as long as we know we’re a team and there for each other, then we can pull through,” sophomore J.T. Forrester said.
Sophomore John Ward also said that one of their major strengths was how they share the ball.
“We don’t just try to keep it for ourselves, we pass it to everyone,” Ward said.
But like every team, the boys also have their weaknesses.
“A big weakness of ours is how we get when something goes wrong,” Forrester said. “Like if we get scored on, we get all down and stuff.”
Ballard agrees that the boys can put themselves down.
“We get ourselves down and give up when we should just play harder,” Ballard said.
Ward added that another weakness is that they have not played together since last season.
“Everyone’s been on their club teams and stuff and we just haven’t played together as a team in a while,” Ward said.
Also, the loss of 5 senior players last year affects the team as well.
The team has their fair share of strengths and weaknesses, and they remain positive and look forward to the rest of their season.
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