Bryan Station boys soccer has never entered the fall as defending 11th Region champion.
Accustomed to being the hunter of teams ranked higher than themselves in the Rundell Rankings’ top 25 and other measures, the Defenders ranked as the No. 5 team this preseason.
But five straight wins to open the season were quickly followed by four straight losses with No. 3 Owensboro and No. 7 Paul Laurence Dunbar from across town among them.
The losing streak was capped on Sept. 1 at 42nd District rival Frederick Douglass who clawed a 1-0 penalty kick shootout victory at The Farm. The Broncos finished 3-13-1 last season. They rank No. 47 this year with a 7-5-1 record.
The Defenders’ wake-up call couldn’t have rung any louder.
“It’s confusing for us when we don’t understand why we can’t win every game,” said Bryan Station senior midfielder Cameron Sparks, who scored the opening goal in the Defenders’ 2-1 win over No. 19 Highlands barely two minutes into Tuesday’s game. “But at the same time, we have games where we win like this, and it’s very obvious to some teams that we are a team to beat, and we are not bad. We are confident,…
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