MCC defender Celeste Boswell, left, keeps the ball moving while Holly Miller, right, follows.

In an exhibition match at C.D. Smith Field Thursday on the Meridian Community College campus, MCC Lady Eagles tied with Hinds Community College Lady Eagles 1-1.

“This was the first game of the year and the first time to play somebody other than ourselves and overall, I think we did good. But that’s what an exhibition game is there for — to see what to work on,” MCC Head Soccer Coach Mike Smith said.

“Obviously, we want to win — and we had chances to win — I think we were the better team. We just couldn’t get another goal,” he said. Clair Campbell, a freshman from Collinsville, earned the goal for the MCC Lady Eagles.

The men’s match proved to be a battle through adversity with the game results of Hinds Eagles defeating MCC Eagles 6-2. 

“I thought we started well,” Smith said, with the first goal of the game being scored by MCC’er Casey Ulmer, a freshman from Northeast Jones. “We held it for a little while,” Smith noted.

The MCC Eagles travel north to Senatobia to play Northwest Community College for the first regular-season game on Tuesday. Women play at 2 p.m., while the men’s game starts at 4.