That will be a first for me as well, first road trip as a college head coach. It will be a good test for us early on. I want to see how things play out.

There are former college and pro players on some of the teams. Even the first-time fan will enjoy some of the hockey this weekend.

I road their coat tails. When I called a college and wanted an interview, they said, 'Who are you? Never heard of you.' When they found that I was on the Sea Pines Golf Academy team, they wanted to talk to me.

Realistically, we thought of this as a game that we should be able to come in and win. With the experience that we have back and with what this team was able to accomplish a year ago (when IUS qualified for the NAIA National Tournament), we had high hopes coming into the year.

We really played a sloppy match tonight. I am tired of saying that we did not play to our ability, but it is the truth we made some communication errors and let our guard down. We could have played a lot better tonight.

We had some good attacks at the net in the first game and sort of established ourselves at the net.