After playing great defense in the first half of its match against Mt. San Jacinto, the women’s soccer team was unable to maintain it in the second half, leading to a 2-0 loss to the Lady Eagles.

With a sunny afternoon the 2014 EC women’s soccer team played their first game at home and lost 2-0 against Mt. San Jacinto College, Friday Sept 5 at 1 p.m.

“Despite the fact that things didn’t totally go our way; we did a good job,” assistant coach Nicole Gervais said. “Especially in the first half of moving the ball and getting in together and attacking as a unit, so when we stopped doing that, that’s a key.The fact we stopped being able to moving the ball and attacking as a unit that’s a big difference,” Nicole Gervais, Assistant coach said.

The great work of the sophomore goalkeeper, Melissa Paramo, 19, helped to stop the Lady Eagles from scoring, but in the 74th minute the first goal was scored and the second one was at the scored in the 84th minute.

“I feel like I made a lot saves but the two that went in I’m not so happy about,” Paramo said. “This just doesn’t happen, and I will work on my defense so that won’t happen again.”

The first half of the game the women soccer team defense played better than the second half, because the team needs to work in their fitness and communication because the girls came from different schools and they need more time to engage, Gervais said.

“For sure we have to focus on intensity, being more fit, talking and communicating, that pretty much it,” Andrea Elias, 19, freshman said. “We did a really good job, we could done a better but it is what it is.”

The need of a better physical condition make that the players lost their passes our incomplete some of the moves during the game, that made the other team being superior in the field.

The next game of the women’s soccer team will be against Santa Monica City college Sept. 9 at 3 p.m. according to the women,s soccer team schedule.

“Overall, I thought as a group we did all right and it wasn’t any one person on the team is struggling, you need someone to stand out, but for the most part everyone worked hard today,” Gervais said.