MCHS to face Ursuline Friday

Morgan City High School’s girls soccer team was the subject of some late-changes to the Louisiana High School Athletic Association Division III soccer bracket when less than a day after it was announced the team was playing Teurlings Catholic, their opponent was switched with some reworking of the bracket and they now will face Ursuline Academy Friday.
While Teurlings was seeded No. 10 in the initial bracket and Ursuline replaced them as the No. 10 seed in the revised bracket, Morgan City head soccer coach Trevor Patterson said he actually would rather his No. 23 seed squad face Ursuline in the first round.
“I know how Teurlings is,” Patterson said. “Teurlings has a great feeder program. … Ursuline does to with the New Orleans area. Again, Ursuline’s a good team. They’re No. 10, but if you look at their schedule, their schedule was not as hard as a Teurlings, so I’m thankful that we’re playing Ursuline compared to Teurlings.”
Still, that doesn’t mean Friday’s 4 p.m. contest at The Fly near the Audubon Zoo will be easy for Morgan City.
“It’s not an easy task,” Patterson said.
Morgan City entered this season with an inexperienced squad after having to replace some veterans from a year ago. Patterson said the team is hurt because Morgan City’s players don’t’ play year-round soccer like other schools.
While Morgan City struggled to a 3-16-1 overall record, including a 3-7 mark in District 6-III, Patterson agreed it was a big deal to make the playoffs despite their record.
However, he also credited the team’s district, which features state powers Vandebilt Catholic and E.D. White, as well as some other successful teams they scheduled, which helped their power ranking.
“Yes, we could have probably scheduled four or five easier (nondistrict) games that we could have possibly won, but, there again, the old saying goes ‘to be the best you got to beat the best,’ and it does you know good by playing the same team four or five times and beating them all the time because it’s not improving you,” Patterson said.
Ursuline enters Friday’s contest with a 10-6-3 overall mark. They finished 4-1 in District 5-III, good enough for second place behind the Academy of Sacred Heart of New Orleans.