Words cannot even explain what I am feeling rite now. We lost to La Verne 2-1 whose record is (4-9-1). We never in a million years should have lost to this team. Plain and simple…they are BAD, but it was one of those games in soccer when the ball just wouldn’t go in the back of the net for us.
This situation is exactly why I am writing this blog. If we were in the SCIAC, this would have just been a normal loss…it sucks to lose, but you get over it. But for us, as an independent school this loss might have cost us our chances at playoffs. EVERY game matters to us. This loss hurts 10 times more because we have no league to rely back on. Granted we did lose and we must take the hit, but the frustrating thing is this: teams in the SCIAC can loose and they know that their season isn't over. They know that all they have to do is be one of the top 4 out of 8 teams in SCIAC, win the tournament, and then AUTOMATICALLY go to playoffs. While we, little Chapman University has to sit and bite our nails waiting to see if the NCAA playoff committee has picked us. We have to constantly check other teams stats and compare and see who beat who and this and that.
The worst thing is that today the Regional NCAA rankings came out, and we are now ranked 2nd in the west region. We are the top ranked California team. This loss will take us to who knows where on the rankings – I just know that our chances of making it to playoffs have slimmed a lot. All athletes at Chapman have to deal with the stress of playoffs and I am definitely feeling it right now.
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