Tigers loss to Life adds intrigue MSC standings

As the regular season draws closer and closer to the end, Mid-South Conference men's soccer competition is heating up and the race for standings positions keeps changing. With 12 teams, postseason play gives the top four teams a bye into the second round, while the middle four host the bottom four based on seeding.

Georgetown College men's soccer has one game left and after Saturday's 4-1 setback to Life University currently sits in seventh – tied with the Running Eagles – with one game left.

Two points separate the fourth through eighth spots. Wins add three points, a loss is no points and a tie is one, leaving much to be decided in the final week. The top three teams can finish no worse than top three, but final placement inside those positions is still reliant upon this week's results.

The Tigers (10-4-1, 5-4-1) will play Thomas More University in Crestview Hills, Ky. Wednesday. A win could catapult them into fourth if the current top three teams win and Bethel University, currently in fourth, loses. The Wildcats final game is against Freed-Hardeman University, which is ninth right now.

Campbellsville University sits in sixth, a point ahead of Georgetown, with top-seeded Lindsey Wilson College as its final opponent. Cumberland University, currently in second, plays LWC and University of Tennessee Southern – currently in fifth. If Cumberland beats Southern, then all three teams ahead of Georgetown would not gain anymore points and the Tigers, should they win, would be fourth with 19 points. GC also needs Life University to lose its final match against University of the Cumberlands – currently sitting in third – to avoid a tie in points with Life holding the head-to-head advantage.

The Running Eagles (7-6-1, 5-4-1) grabbed that Saturday in Georgetown. The visitors took the early lead, adding the winning goal just more than 10 minutes later.

GC quickly advanced the ball after Life's second goal and trimmed the deficit in half. Unfortunately, less than a minute later, the visitors recaptured their cushion. For good measure, Life added a fourth in the second half as rain started to fall.

All of this just adding intrigue to the final week of the season.