Goshen Preview

Details: August 20, 2009 at 4:30 PM. Played at Bethany Christian High School.

Last Season Review: Bethany Christian defeated Goshen 4-1, at Goshen High School.

Goshen Details: As far as I have seen, we will be Goshen's opening match of the season. They enter with a 0-0 record.

Bethany Christian Details: On Tuesday evening, we fell 4-1 to Northridge, and lost 7-2 at the JV level. That puts our varsity record and JV record at 0-1. We have played no home matches yet this year, so the Goshen match serves as our home opener.

Projected Matchups:
A bit of a shot in the dark for Goshen, but here we go anyways.

#1S - Ben Mast (BC) - Andy Van Klaveren (G)
#2S - Seth Krabill (BC) - Stefan Baumgartner (G)
#3S - Nick Rebec (BC) - Seth Koble (G)
#1D - Mikey Kelly/Kyle Miller (BC) - Jonny Tan/Collin Erickson (G)
#2D - Austin Loucks/Russell Klassen (BC) - Nick Dandino/Paul Johnson (G)

Outlook: We'll be shifting our lineup a bit for this matchup, and we'll hope to be balanced and competitive at all positions. Allowing Mikey to play to his natural strengths in doubles might be a plus, and Kyle showed he certainly can bring the energy in the Northridge match. Ben Mast and Seth Krabill both realized that they can compete and win in high varsity positions as they competed well at Northridge. Unlike us, Goshen brings back a lot of players who experienced varsity play last season, as six of their seven projected players played some varsity. That should prove to be an advantage for them. As with all Sectional opponents, this will be an important matchup and give us some answers going forward.