The day starts well with a nice JV result (1-1; Chase Duerksen goal) which moves their record to 3-1-1. The Varsity faces the # 7 team in the state. Warsaw, with a 10-2 record. Warsaw has 15 seniors on the team and unfortunately for us, it is Senior Night. This drawn out affair takes a good 25 minutes which results in a late start. The team gets announced, kind of. Some of the players' names (Gillion, Grabber and Jursen ???) seem to be too difficult to pronounce. The game starts with NW playing well and looking to combine. This only lasts until the 9th minute when Warsaw's # 10 takes advantage of some defensive indecision, 1-0. It becomes clear early on that neither NW nor the arbitration trio performs up to the level expected in a game of this magnitude. The Tigers score in the 21st and 30th. The halftime 3-0 score is indicative of the play on the field. Our positioning is off and it is disappointing to see that a good scouting report and consequent game plan is not really executed well. We do better in the second half and do not allow another goal. The center referee (one of the kind who has to explain all his bad calls) seems to have little control of the game and hands out 4 yellow cautions to NorthWood (Jerson, Sebastian, Kayden and Dijkstra Sr. all are recipients). In the 75th, a cross (corner) from Kayden into the box finds Chase Duerksen who towers over everyone and with a hard on the target header, Chase will score the lone NW goal on the night.The referee misses a foul and a hand bal in the box but consistent with his performance all night long, he does not call them. The final therefore is 3-1. The result is not awful, the NW play was not good and there are some things that need corrected. Just to be fair, Warsaw is a good team and plays with only 3 men in the back and those 3 were tough to expose; they are fast and physical. NorthWood falls to 9-2 on the season and has only one day to prepare for #16 Goshen.
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
# 7 (3A) Warsaw - #13 (2A) NorthWood 3-1 (3-0)
The day starts well with a nice JV result (1-1; Chase Duerksen goal) which moves their record to 3-1-1. The Varsity faces the # 7 team in the state. Warsaw, with a 10-2 record. Warsaw has 15 seniors on the team and unfortunately for us, it is Senior Night. This drawn out affair takes a good 25 minutes which results in a late start. The team gets announced, kind of. Some of the players' names (Gillion, Grabber and Jursen ???) seem to be too difficult to pronounce. The game starts with NW playing well and looking to combine. This only lasts until the 9th minute when Warsaw's # 10 takes advantage of some defensive indecision, 1-0. It becomes clear early on that neither NW nor the arbitration trio performs up to the level expected in a game of this magnitude. The Tigers score in the 21st and 30th. The halftime 3-0 score is indicative of the play on the field. Our positioning is off and it is disappointing to see that a good scouting report and consequent game plan is not really executed well. We do better in the second half and do not allow another goal. The center referee (one of the kind who has to explain all his bad calls) seems to have little control of the game and hands out 4 yellow cautions to NorthWood (Jerson, Sebastian, Kayden and Dijkstra Sr. all are recipients). In the 75th, a cross (corner) from Kayden into the box finds Chase Duerksen who towers over everyone and with a hard on the target header, Chase will score the lone NW goal on the night.The referee misses a foul and a hand bal in the box but consistent with his performance all night long, he does not call them. The final therefore is 3-1. The result is not awful, the NW play was not good and there are some things that need corrected. Just to be fair, Warsaw is a good team and plays with only 3 men in the back and those 3 were tough to expose; they are fast and physical. NorthWood falls to 9-2 on the season and has only one day to prepare for #16 Goshen.
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