The BCCC Women’s Soccer
team, and second year head
coach, Brett Pierson look to
outdo themselves from last
year and finish with a record of
at least .500 or better.
Pierson knows the program
well considering he played
under the assistant athletic
director and men’s soccer head
coach Justin Burroughs in
2005.
The Centurions aren’t thinking
championship right away;
they just want to take it game
by game.
The girl’s team returns five
starters from last year, so the
new players have some shoes
to fill. Jessica Williams hasn’t
had a problem with that,
because in three games she has
had three of the team’s five
goals while the other two were
scored by captain Briana Faras
in a grueling 3-2 overtime loss
to a winless Raritan Valley
squad, who had been outscored
a total of 16-3 in their past
three games.
Players to watch include captain
Briana Faras, a forward
who has 2 goals this season
already, and midfielder Jamie
Parker. Coach Pierson said others
to look for are defender
Sam Kilpatrick and Jessica
Williams, a Freshman forward
who had all 3 of BCCC’s goals
in the first two games.
Coach Pierson said last week
that “The skill level is basically
even” when asked about playing
an 0-3 team, “you have to
play every team like they don’t
have a loss and like they’re the
best in the league.” During the
first game of the season, Bucks
had to play the number one
team in the nation according to
the NJCAA polls, and they didn’t
even have 11 players to put
out on the field. Pierson said
that for the first half the girls
played 9 on 11 soccer and once
the second half begun Ocean
decided they were going to
field 9 girls also. The girls still
managed to somehow score
one goal even with 9 players
but it was a tough loss for them.
Some games to watch this
year are the PA teams, because
Bucks plays in a conference
dominated by teams from NJ.
Montgomery County was a
physical match last year where
Bucks ousted them 3-2. The
Centurions played in
Brookdale, who is 2-1 this year
and number six in the nation,
on Thursday, Sept. 21 @ 3:30.
The last two games are on Oct.
17 and 19 at 3:30 vs.
Gloucester and Manor, and the
Centurions hope to make the
playoffs in Camden which happen
during Oct. 22-29.