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Donald
Smith
Sports
Reporter
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The fall season here at Metro couldn’t have been better! For
starters, all three teams were Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
Champions, all were able to have young players step up late in the
season and all three teams look like they’ll be great again
next season. This might have been the best season ever in Metro fall
athletics.
Women’s Soccer
Other than the fact that Metro’s Sports Information Assistant
Aaron Buemi will stop talking about his “lucky seeds,”
I really hate to see this season end. It looked like the team had
all the momentum in their favor going into the quarterfinals before
they were upset by University of California- San Diego 3-2. If there
was ever a bad time to lose a first game it was in the NCAA Tournament.
This team had everything going for it both defensively and offensively,
but like Chris Berman says: “That’s why they play the
game.”
Women’s Volleyball
I swear! Cheering for the women’s team is kind of like playing
the scratch ticket lotto games.
The first one comes up a cherry (winning the RMAC Regular Season
Championship), the second one a cherry (winning the RMAC Tournament)
and then the lemon! (losing in the Regional Tournament) The thing
about this is that it has happened for the past three seasons!
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photo by Joshua Lawton - The Metropolitan
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| Metro's
Shawna Gilbert spikes the ball into the waiting hands of Rockhurst
University's Heidi Specht during the Roadrunner's 3-2 loss in
the NCAA Division II Regional Round at the Event Center in Denver
Nov. 21. The 'Runners finished their season 27-6 |
Even worse, the team that defeated the Roadrunners last season in
three games, was the same team to defeat them this year, only the
Roadrunners would extend it two additional games instead of being
swept. Good job!
I know this may sound mean, but if you play all season in order to
host a tournament, could you possibly go ahead and win the thing!
Anyway, the only difference between this season and prior years is
that Devon Herron will not return to lead the team back to the playoffs
again; not this time, her hour glass is empty, her time is done and
this team must now find another spark within its program to lead the
team next season.
Men’s Soccer
You have to love the fact that the NCAA did what no other opposing
team in the month of November could do … eliminate them.
The Metro Men’s team saw their season end not on a header past
Eric Butler in overtime, not by free kick in the box with only two
seconds left or not even on an own goal. This team was eliminated
by a voting committee, who felt their magical season should end.
The men’s team had an incredible month of undefeated soccer,
a month of seeing seniors Alex Grecu, Corey Gonzalez, Jeff Manson
and Butler play as if there were no tomorrow. They all deserved to
play until they were beaten, but sadly, a group of NCAA voters decided
they weren’t.
Finally, I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, because now
that finals are coming up it might be the only thing you’ll
enjoy until Santa comes.
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