Well…I’d say this was disappointing, but I was impressed with Beechwood. 
 

The Cougars had a very good chance to score in the first half off a crossed ball by Noble to the box that found the foot of Golikia Masoluka but his shot goes wide left from 7yards out. This scoring threat seemed to wake up the Tigers and they began to go on the hunt for a goal. The Tigers score off a set play and begin to celebrate, but the AR on the bleacher side calls over the center ref, have a discussion and the ref signals indirect direct kick for the Cougars…no goal. 
 

Second half the Cougars came out on the attack and seemed to be passing the ball better, but just never seemed to be able to break the back line of the Tigers for good looks on goal. The Cougar defense put themselves in some bad positions with silly  fouls inside the 30 yard line, but the Tigers were not able to take advantage of the good field positioning to get a goal. As the half continued the Tigers seemed to press more and kept the attack on the Cougar backline.   Conner had their best chance to score off a shot by Swaney from 40 yards out, the Tiger keeper was high on his line and had to back peddle and made a nice one handed hit on the ball which was just enough to push the ball out of danger and avoid the goal. The Tigers were in the box pressing late in the second half, a ball bounces to an open attacking Tiger who takes a great shot through the crowd and Trey Wagner is somehow able to see it, get on the ground for the save and secure the shutout and the tie for the Cougars. 
 

Again, I was impressed with Beechwood and their discipline on defense, they did not foul in bad areas and kept the Cougar attack in check. Beechwood has good size and as the season progresses I see them improving. The Cougars need to figure out how to get the ball in better attacking areas and find the back of the net. 

@kyag what was the current health report from the injured Cougars?  I am assuming they are still not at full strength.

I am excited to see the Birds take on Beechwood tomorrow, seems like it might be closer than I had expected based on their first 2 games of the season.

25 minutes ago, FrankNicodemus said:

@kyag what was the current health report from the injured Cougars?  I am assuming they are still not at full strength.

I am excited to see the Birds take on Beechwood tomorrow, seems like it might be closer than I had expected based on their first 2 games of the season.

Mason Ginn is back but still getting his legs under him from missing 4 weeks with a fractured toe. Clark Peterson played sparing minutes from his leg injury that he was cleared from on Tuesday. Should be a good game @FrankNicodemus…I might just have to make the trip to check it out.