MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — April 19 may go down as the second-best day of the 2024 season for the Boyd Buchanan boys’ soccer team.
May 23 has to be at the top of that list.
The first date, though, was important, too. That was when the Buccaneers lost a 4-3 battle to TSSAA Division II-AA’s Baylor, and junior Drew Pollard gave a simple message to his disappointed teammates after the match: “We’re not losing again.”
“That was the game we saw what we could do,” senior Phillip Collins said Thursday. “We knew there was nobody else in our conference that could compete with us. We’re scoring on some of the best schools around us, some of the best schools in the state, in the nation.”
The Bucs got back to the postseason, which is common for them. They reached the Division II-A state semifinals by advancing to this week’s Spring Fling, also not irregular for the program, and with a win on Wednesday advanced to the title game, just as they had the past two seasons.