LeWang Holders

Laurie Bell, a sophomore on the 2012 Milwaukee men's soccer team, will be blogging all season long on the UWM website. Today is his fifth entry of the year.

Note: The team is off this week, so look for the next blog in 2 weeks.

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Our weekend spent participating in the Lakeside Classic tournament at Northwestern saw us produce two good performances in beating NIU and then unfortunately losing out to the hosts on Sunday.

Friday’s match up against our LeWang Trophy challengers proved to be our most complete performance of the season as we successfully defended the cup. Stu McBain scored his second goal in as many games - a good achievement for our freshman forward. His watching family seemed more than pleased with Stu and the team’s successes with Mrs. McBain in high spirits and a talkative mood as she congratulated all of us after the match.

Our second game of the weekend against nationally ranked Northwestern may have ended in defeat but we still left with pride in our performance and some healthy experience for our young team who matched, and even outplayed, the opposition for long periods of the game. Overall the weekend can be looked back upon with satisfaction.

Compared to some away day journeys the two trips to Chicago seemed relatively short but they still managed to provide some noteworthy moments. Everybody shares the same goals and everyone has a role to play. One player who proves this as much as anybody is Mark Heydt. Even if he doesn’t make the travel squad you better believe he is still going to represent us by wearing his Milwaukee soccer gear at all opportunities, proving he is as committed to the program as anybody. Either that or he wants to make certain that every girl on campus knows he plays the soccer team!

We now have a nine day gap between games which will be used to recover then prepare for a busy schedule in the build up to our first conference fixtures.