Missouri Southern State College soccer is again on the highway once more, taking up Missouri Western State College at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Southern (1-6) is coming off “one other robust highway journey” mentioned MSSU head coach Atiba Bradley this week. They misplaced 13-16 towards the College of Nebraska-Kearney final week.
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Bradley mentioned, “I believed the protection got here out … struggled slightly bit within the first quarter after which actually settled in and received fairly stingy the remainder of the afternoon.”
Southern allowed 7 factors within the first quarter and seven within the second.
“I believed our particular groups, for essentially the most half, had been actually strong,” he mentioned.
Kicker Asher Huffman was 2 for two on subject objectives with a 41-yard kick and an 18-yard kick. Punter Mitchell Cory had 5 punts for a mean of 43 yards.
Bradley wrapped it up by saying, “We received to be higher. I imply that is the underside line as a soccer workforce.”
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Missouri Western is “offensively, a little bit of juggernaut” in accordance with Bradley.
Western (3-4) averages 482.4 yards of offense per sport (first within the MIAA, ninth within the nation) and has 32 offensive touchdowns (second in MIAA, tied for thirty third within the nation). The vast majority of these have come from the air with 352.1 yards per sport (first MIAA, third within the nation) and 19 passing touchdowns (first within the MIAA, thirteenth within the nation).
They’ve scored greater than 40 factors in 4 video games.
Bradley additionally mentioned, “They received a extremely good quarterback” referring to Isaiah Tate, who has been an MIAA offensive participant of the week and at present holds 5 single-game data for Missouri Western. In simply seven video games, Tate has the Tenth-most passing yards in a single season and is tied for Tenth-most passing touchdowns in a season in program historical past.
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Its protection was described by Bradley as “feast or famine.” They’ve allowed greater than 30 factors in 5 video games and 45 or extra in three video games.
Bradley mentioned of Southern, “Some weeks the offense is gonna battle … some weeks the protection is gonna battle. … All sides of the ball has to have this type of huge brother mentality. … If the offense is struggling … we will raise them up.”
Cory added to that by saying, “There’s going to be days the place … the offense is not producing, and I all the time say to among the guys, ‘I received your again.'”
