MBN Roundup: Boys soccer, volleyball

BY the MBN
Soccer falls 2-0; volleyball swept by a good Cherokee Trail.
As the sun set quickly on Tuesday’s match, so did the prospects of Mullen earning a home date to begin the Class 4A boys soccer playoffs.

And it was a cold late afternoon/early evening in multiple ways, including a 2-0 loss to host Overland in Aurora to cap the Centennial League’s regular season.

Mustangs head coach Matthew Guglielmo wasn’t very happy afterward.

“Annoying would be understating it,” he said of his team’s performance.

Missed assignments and chances, failure to protect and a lack of effort, he said, made the match difficult as “it was a little bit of everything … we had a terrible warmup, we were really flat, it looked like one of those vacation days or exhibition games … we did not give 100 percent in this game, which I hate to say.”

Mullen is 8-5-1 overall, ended league play 3-3-1 and, Guglielmo said, probably will finish somewhere in the low 20s in RPI playoff seeding in the 32-team 4A bracket. 5A Overland is 8-6, 4-2.

The Mustangs will complete the regular season on Friday, Oct. 25, at home against Skyline, 4:30 p.m.

In volleyball, the Mustangs opened the Centennial Challenge at home at Hutchison Fieldhouse by getting swept 3-0 by Cherokee Trail.

The Cougars won 25-17, 25-15, 25-18.

Mullen is 8-9 on the season and Cherokee Trail is 15-2.

The Mustangs will play their second of three matches in the Challenge on Thursday, Oct. 24, against Overland at 6:30 p.m.
 
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