Men's Soccer Wins First Berth to National Tournament
Date 11/14/1996 12:00 AM | Topic:
Sports
Laptop Battery The Norse received their first ever invitation to the NCAA
Division III national tournament last Sunday. On Saturday, November
16, they will travel to Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. to
play UC-San Diego (10-5-1) at noon. San Diego is nationally ranked
#7, while Luther (19-3) is 25th.
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Thinkpad On Sunday night, coach Doug Mello received the phone call saying
that Luther had been invited to nationals. He taped the call, and
had the team get together. "It was really cool," said Matt
Reinsmoen '98. "We were all huddling around and the tension was
rising. When they finally said '#4 seed Luther', we all got really
excited."
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Microsoft Though they are happy about making it to the tournament, the
team is not stopping there. "Our primary feeling was 'Wow, our
dream has come true,'" said senior co-captain Chris Mitchell. "But
in the last day or so we've realized we're happy, but our goal is
to make something of it. We want to do something with the
opportunity we've been given."
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Laptop Computers This week, the team is preparing themselves not only physically,
but mentally as well. Their practices consist more of maintaining
their touch on the ball than on conditioning. The motto
"confidence, teamwork, heart" paves their way.
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Laptop Computer The team is hoping to take advantage of the weather conditions
this weekend. While UC-San Diego has little experience playing in
the cold, the Norse are plenty used to it. "We have the definite
advantage that the game is being played in Minnesota," said junior
Christian Nillsson. "San Diego is not ready for the cold - we can
use that in a good way."
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Desktop Computer If Luther wins on Saturday, they will play the winner of
Saturday's Concordia-Moorhead (12-3-2) vs. Macalester (14-4-0)
match on Sunday. If they lose, their season is over. "It's a little
tough," said Nilsson. "It could be that we get all excited, and
then go in and play 90 minutes of hard soccer and be out. I guess
that's part of the beauty of the game."
Notebooks The Norse go into this weekend's play excited and confident. "I
know that if we play with our hearts, good things will happen,"
said Mitchell.
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Sports Editor
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