9-13-08: MACU 5 - STERLING 2

Sterling's account of the game against MACU in Oklahoma City:

Same Score, Different Result

09/16/2008-After beating MACU 5-2 in the season opener, the Warriors faced the Evangels again on Satruday resulting in the same score, but a very different result. MACU opened up the scoring in the first half on a Brian Jantz goal that was equalized by Ryan Covey moments later. At the end of the first half, Jantz was able to find net again to give the Evangels a 2-1 half-time lead. The first few moments of the second half proved to be disastrous for the Warriors. In the 46th minute Chongo Nevarez launched a shot from 30 yards out that got hung up in the wind and floated into the back of the net just under the cross-bar. Still reeling from the third goal, Sterling wasn't able to regroup and gave up yet another goal a minute later. With nothing to lose, the Warriors pushed forward to try to create some goal-scoring opportunities, resulting in another Covey goal, and a Bueso goal that was disallowed, but the damage done by the Evangels was too great. Warrior coach, Dave Underwood commented about the game, "This was a crazy game, one we would like to immediately put behind us. Clearly, MACU was highly motivated after losing to us a week earlier, and they took it right to us. I think we caught them on an off day when they were at our place, and we had an off day at theirs. They are a good team with some dangerous players who played extremely well."