Some ugly soccer in Grantham tonight. Both the Falcons and Mudd-Scripps played an ugly brand of soccer that made for a pretty exciting 4-3 goal party. While both teams had stretches of brilliance with good buildup and some pretty convincing attacks, the overall defensive performances will lead to short seasons for both teams. Runners free in the box, poor shape, and a lot of players caught sleeping. I'm sure both teams will spend some time in film cleaning these problems up, but tonight was a rough night for those back lines.

On the upside, a passionate performance from Patrick Lee with two goals to show for it, John Laidlow is a force to be reckon with and a "man child" as the falcon announcers so ineloquently said, and Brad McCarty's magic may be running out in Grantham, or maybe it was just Brandts all along.