NORFOLK, NE – Another win.  Another five goals.  Another game that left IHCC Head Coach James Ross with a hunger for more.

Indian Hills improved to 2-0-1 on the season with a 5-2 road victory over Northeast (0-2) at Veterans Memorial Field Saturday, and despite not shouldering a defeat in the first three contests, Ross has an eye on what's to come.  Namely, the meat of the Warriors' schedule. 

"We were better today, we really were.  But at the same time, that game should have been won by a much wider margin," Ross said.  "Once again we were plagued with way too many missed chances. We're going to have to start to finish on our opportunities at a much higher rate.  Today wasn't a complete game start to finish."

The Warriors took a 3-1 lead into the intermission as a goal in the 13^th minute from Rui Tsubakihara and a pair of scores from Denis German Barcojo in the 30^th and 38^th minutes offset Mano Veldt's goal in the 18^th minute for the Hawks.

"Northeast had one chance really the whole game, and to their credit, they scored it," Ross added.  "Their second goal was on a cross that snuck in over our goalies' head."

Ross' reference was to Northeast's Reno Neves getting one past Andrea De Marinis in the 66^th minute, but fortunately for the Warriors, they had already tacked on two more goals as Kanata Furutani and Takumi Semba had both scored unassisted at the 47^th and 64^th minute, respectively to round out the IHCC scoring.

De Marinis collected one save in net as the Warriors held a 11-3 shots on goal advantage.

A peek ahead sees the Warriors facing Hawkeye (2-1) on Tuesday and No. 2-rated Iowa Western (2-0) on Saturday which should prove to be difficult opponents.

Hawkeye already has notched a victory over No. 7-rated Marshalltown, and the highly touted Reivers have outscored its two opponents thus far by a combined 28-0, including an 11-0 win over Northeast.

"Now some big boy games are ahead of us and we still are so wasteful in front of goal," Ross added. "Our back four are really going to have to step up their play for us to remain competitive.  There's been some very shaky play back there, and we'll have to tighten that up going forward."

Game time Tuesday at Waterloo's Cedar Valley Soccer Complex is set for 3 p.m.

"We have more work to do if we even think we are going to win games coming up this week," Ross concluded. "Today was the best we've played so far, but it's nowhere near where we have to be if we want to go win a conference title."

Scoring Summary

Period Team    Time     Play                                                                                  V-H

 1^st        IH          13:33     Rui Tsubakihara             (from Alejandro Contreras)          1 - 0

 1^st      NE          18:37     Mano Veldt                    (unassisted)                               1 - 1

 1^st       IH          30:40     Denis German Barcojo   (unassisted)                                2 - 1

 1^st       IH          38:51     Denis German Barcojo   (from Remerdie Ndiang)               3 - 1

 2^nd      IH          47:59     Kanata Furutani             (unassisted)                                4 - 1

 2^nd      IH          64:41     Takumi Semba               (unassisted)                                5 - 1

 2^nd      NE         66:22     Breno Neves                   (unassisted)                                5 - 2