Trevor Delaney

Sports Editor

The Idaho State University women’s soccer team lost its first two matches of the Big Sky Season when they took on Northern Colorado in back to back games on Friday and Sunday at the Idaho Central Credit Union Practice Field in Pocatello. In their opening match of the season on Friday, March 19, the Bengals lost to Northern Colorado with a final score for the match of 0-2.

Remarking on Friday’s match, Coach Debs Brereton said, “Overall I think the result doesn’t reflect the performance our team gave. I felt as the game progressed we turned ourselves around and from taking an early loss we recovered very well.”

Coach Brereton continued saying, “I think this is a huge learning curve, we’ve got a really young team and they have never experienced the Big Sky game before. I think if anything they now understand that the game is never completely out of our reach and if we can start on Sunday the way we ended today I think it could be a very different result.”

Then on Sunday, Mar. 21, the Idaho State Bengals came back out to play the Northern Colorado Bears, with another loss by ISU and a final score of 0-1. After Sunday’s game was over with, Brereton commented, “I thought the players executed the game plan brilliantly. We asked them to try and match the intensity and focus they had in the second half of the last game and they did just that. To put together a complete performance like that is something we’ve been working on and hoping for, for quite some time. We created more chances today I thought we look way more dangerous going forward, but it’s just not quite there for us in the box.”

“Overall I am so proud of the players for applying themselves maximally and for the seniors as well. Every senior on the pitch was playing her heart out and I appreciate it so much,” said Brereton.

The Bengals will play again at 1 p.m. on Friday, Mar. 26, when they go up against Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, with another back to back game at 12 p.m. on Sunday, Mar. 28 against Northern Arizona. These first two losses put Idaho State at 0-2 for Big Sky play and 0-3 in overall season play.