Soccer suffers overtime loss

by

Tanner Colvin

Staff Writer

Troy Soccer was back in action Saturday but suffered heartbreak in overtime loss in the team’s season opener in Mobile, Alabama.

The Trojans opened with South Alabama on Sunday and fought hard, pushing the game to double overtime before eventually falling with the final score of 2-1.

“It was incredible to see our group handle a whole lot of factors that didn’t go our way,” Head Coach Ged O’Connor said. “The weather was really bad, and we were playing on a completely different surface, on the road.

“All of the factors that could have gone wrong today did, which is the new normal in 2020. To be able to have five or six freshmen out there with just one senior says a lot…