Aces soccer recap from Coach Ed Berberich:

The soccer Aces were finally able to kick off their 20-21 season with a home match against the Newton Eagles, falling behind early but eventually fighting back for the 4-1 victory. The Eagles scored the season's first goal on a corner kick 10 minutes into the match. The Aces responded with a goal from Britton Heinrich to tie it at 1-1. Levi Beesley gave the Aces the lead shortly after, scoring a goal on a rebound with Heinrich assisting, making the score 2-1 at the half. In the 2nd half Jarrett West scored on a free kick from about 30 yards out to give the Aces a 3-1 lead. Ethan Belt completed the scoring for the match, finishing with an assist from Rayce Loudermilk. Goalkeeper Tye Kanipe had 3 saves while minding the net.

It's been a long time coming but we were finally able to get out there and it felt good to be playing again. That would've been true regardless of the result, but of course we're happy to get the win. We looked a bit rusty, which was to be expected, but the guys are good enough to play through some of those issues and as the game went on we started to look a little more like the team I expect to see. Mid-way through the 2nd half or so, we started passing the ball better and using Tye to keep possession and to help shut down Newton's attacks. The good news is that as much as we still need to work on, we were able to get the result we wanted. We have a lot of returning talent on this team, but at the same time we have a lot of talent to replace from last year, so it was good to see some new players step up & perform well along with the expected strong performance of the returning players. Conner Adams and Ivan Holt in particular, were thrown out there a lot in this one and performed very well in what are basically new positions for them. Our success this year will depend in large part on whether or not we continue to get some new players to step up. If we work at it, I feel we have a team that should get better and better as the season goes along, as the new players learn what we want and as we continue to build chemistry.