PREMIER FAILS TO FINISH SOUTH SELECT, 1-1

Houston, Tx (06/04/10) The Dallas Premier traveled to Houston Friday night to battle the Houston South Select in the WPSL opener for both teams. With them, the Premier brought all their high expectations and hype as they are expected to compete for the WPSL Championship this season. South Select came in with no expectations and only one thing in mind…bring your game on and we'll bring ours. For the second game in a row the Premier found themselves playing on a rain drenched, muddy field against a south Texas team. The Premier strengths were minimized by the field condition and a hard working South Select team found themselves in a 0-0 tie going into the 65^th minute. That is where F Sterling Smith took a pass out of the back from D Alicia Marshall and drove the ball down the sideline 25yards and put a cross to the near post where F Brittany Slyman one touched the well placed ball into the net. The way the Premier Defense had been playing this looked like it could be the game winner but 7 minutes later the South Select put a ball to space that was found by an all alone Select F Katlyn Ross 40 yards out. GK Meagan Wilson who had come out to retrieve the ball to space suddenly got caught near the top of the 18 and the ball was easily placed over her for the 1-1 tie. For the first time in their history the Premier will find themselves someplace other than first place. The Premier who outshot the Select 18-1 the first half and 30 -5 on the game played an uninspired match but still found lots of opportunities to finish some goals. A frustrated Head Coach Brian Flanagan commented, "We outshoot them with 15 out of 18 shots being saved by their goalie to their 1 and we come away with a tie. We have got to finish. The game isn't shots on goal its shots in the goal and that score was 1-1." Owner/GM Paul Marshall noted, "We had a completely out of sink team tonight. They didn't move around like they did in Alabama. But this was the second game in a row we played on a wet muddy pitch and that's like running in sand. Dead legs may have been the problem. But no matter how good or bad of a team we are playing, we better realize they are going to bringing their best game because of our reputation, everyone wants to beat us and if we don't come ready to play no matter how good we are we will get beat."

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