Wednesday, October 31, 2018
2018 Fall Awards
The awards : MVP Sebastian Guillen, Offensive MVP Landon Parker, Travis Hunsberger Award (defensive MVP) Skyler Duerksen, Most Improved Marshall Beebe and Mental Attitude Kyle Luster. Congratulations to these Awards winners. We will miss our seniors but invite them to come out and play in the first Alumni Game on artificial turf in August of 2019 when we celebrate 25 Years of NorthWood Men's Soccer!!!!
2018 Fall Awards - All NLC
All NLC Landon Parker, Jerson Sanchez and Sebastian Guillen, Honorable Mention Skyler Duerksen
Friday, October 5, 2018
Season over
The 2018-2019 did not end the way we wanted to. If nothing else, you want to play your last game giving everything you got and it seemed that we were not hungry, not energetic enough. A win and a spot in a championship game is not a given every year but it was not to be! We need to do and need to be better next year. But the coaching staff wants to thank the Seniors for all the years they have given to the NorthWood Boys soccer program. We want to thank the school and specifically the Athletic Department and our Athletic Trainer Mr. Widner for all their help and support. We want to thank all the parents for all the help with the food, the snacks, for washing the pinnies and most of all for supporting your student athletes during a hectic and busy soccer season. The soccer program has been around for 24 years and Coach Duerksen and myself have been around for 22 of those years. A lot of changes have happened over the years but none more then the upcoming changes. It is exciting to see that we are finally moving to a new facility which is taking shape as I write this. To play on artificial turf at the Well Fields might not be the most ideal situation (who does not want to play on a pristine grass surface) but it is pretty much the second best situation we can find ourselves in. Our grass field at the game field has been awful for a majority of the years we have played our matches there. Too many games were canceled, once we even played a Senior Night game against Plymouth on the "soccer field" at the Middle School. Those days are now behind us and now we go from the worst field in Northern Indiana in 2018, to the best field in 2019. Great lights, great field; what an exciting time to be part of the program! So the focus shifts to the next season and we hope that with a new environment comes a new dedication from the players as well. I know our coaching staff is ready for August 5th, 2019. I will make an announcement here about Awards Night soon. Go PANTHERS!!!!!!
Monday October 8th - Turn in Uniform Day
Meet in Coach Duerksen's room at 3:30 Mondya to turn in all uniforms and warm ups. Make sure everything is clean!!!!!!!
NorthWood- West Noble 0-5 (0-3)
NorthWood never recovers from a slow start and never executes on good opportunities to end the season at 8-8-2. West Noble scores in the 14", 26", 29", 43" and 62" to move on to the Sectional Final (vs Wawasee).
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Sectional Semi Final Match Day
The Panthers face the West Noble Chargers this afternoon at 5 pm at Angola. West Noble is 14-3 on the season and ranked 15th in Class 2A. West Noble plays a considerably weaker schedule then the Panthers. Even though the Chargers were undefeated in their conference NECC) at 7-0, it is hard to compare their competition to that to of the NLC. West Noble and NW (8-7-2) have 6 common opponents with the results being the same for both schools; both defeated Wawasee, Lakeland, Bethany and Angola and both lost to Goshen and Northridge. So two of their 3 losses come against NLC opponents. West Noble's #12 is their topscorer with 18 goals on the season. It looks to be a very competitive match up.Last year this match up went down to the wire (4-3 NW win). The bus leaves (!) at 2:40 from the High School. Hope to see everyone there! The weather is supposed to be great for spectators (80). Let's get us a win so we can play for a Championship on Saturday -a win tonight will also guarantee a winning record-; GO PANTHERS!!!!
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
NorthWood-Lakeland 3-2 (2-0)
Not the best game of the year but at this point, only results count. Off to a 1-0 start in the post season. Goals by Jerson, Sebastian and Landon Parker (gamewinner)> Up next is Class 2A #15 West Noble. The Chargers are 14-3 on the season and haven't lost since August 22nd so it is time to change that. 5 pm start at Angola tomorrow. Today's practice will be an hour long or short and the bus leaves at 2:40 tomorrow. GO PANTHERS!
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