2007 is gone and I would like to think back to our soccer program and its many "unnoticed" and "unspoken" accomplishments, for there is much more behind a 4-14 record than just sheer numbers!

Here they are, in no particular order:

1 - Our soccer Little Giants lost a very tight game against OWU, that eventually won the NCAC Conference title, only when the Bishops scored their second goal with less than 5 minutes to go in regulation. Final score 2-1

2- Our soccer Little Giants battled head to head with 6 NCAC schools, losing or winning the matches by one goal differential. Hiram, lost 1-0 with a goal scored in the 87th minute of regulation. Earlham, lost 2-1 with two goals scored, respectively at the 88th and 90th minute of regulation. Wooster, lost 1-0. Allegheny, lost 1-0 with a goal scored with less than 2 minutes left in the first OT period. Oberlin, won with our second goal scored in the first OT period. OWU, see above.

3 - For the first time in five years, the little Giants started the season with a 2-1 record, after a convincing 4-2 win against Rose-Hulman.

4 - Every game saw a minimum of 4 freshman in the starting eleven and up to seven in the game against Earlham.

5 - During the season we had up to seven injured players who couldn't take the field at any given time. Yet, the boys pulled together and they cemented a very tight group.

6 - Two of our freshmen, Mark Babcock and Diego Aliaga, made ALL-NCAC Honorable Mention, even thought Mark deserved 1st or second team.

7 - We had 11 goals less scored against us than last year, on our way to a zero goal differential in 2008!

8 - All our returning seniors helped to integrate our nine freshmen in the team, and successfully did so throughout the pre-season and official season.

9 - Every single member of the Little Giants Soccer Program knows what it takes now and, together with the new 2012 class that will join us in August, are preparing for a breakthrough year.

Numbers, statistics, percentages, etc. are good for the record book, but what the Wabash Soccer Program has accomplished this past year is unclassifiable. It rests in the hearts and minds of a bunch of guys on a mission, a mission to get the job done...and done with pride!

Good 2007, Lads! I am very proud of what we have accomplished and very excited about what 2008 has in store for us.

WABASH SOCCER ALWAYS FIGHTS!!!

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