The season opener for Tennessee Wesleyan College pitted the Bulldogs against the current number nine ranked team in the nation Southern Polytechnic State University. On paper, the game looked to be an extremely tough start with Southern Poly reaching the second round of the NAIA National Tournament last season and has started this season where they left off last with a draw against previous National Champion's Bethel University and an 11-0 win over Atlanta Christian.   

The game started brightly for TWC, they controlled possession of the ball and only looked threatened on the counter attack by a very defensive minded Southern Poly. Chances in the first half were few and far between, TWC's John Carrier had a speculative effort from 30 yards excellently and acrobatically saved by Southern Poly's goalkeeper. The best chance of the half came to Southern Poly, when a straight ball through the center of TWC's defense, who was caught napping, lead Nigerian born Emeke Maduka to find himself one on one with TWC's freshman goalkeeper Zack Plaice. Plaice stood his ground and pulled off an outstanding save to keep the score at 0-0 going into the half.

The second half started similar to the first with Southern Poly sitting back soaking up TWC's pressure and counter attacking with speed. Again goal scoring opportunities were at a premium and the deciding moment of the game came on the 68^th minute when TWC's right back Dusty McClanahan put in a slide tackle close to the half way line and the referee showed him his second yellow card and subsequently a red. It was a soft dismissal in a game that had much worse challenges that went unpunished. TWC was on the back foot from this point onwards, changes had to be made and with the work that the TWC team had put into the game, cramps were becoming a factor for some of the TWC players.

The Lady Bulldogs played their first two games of the 2010-11 soccer season on back to back days earlier this week.  The team travelled to East TN State University on Monday for a tough match -up against an in-form and physcially fit ETSU side.  The Bulldogs were able to hold ETSU goaless for 34 minutes and looked like the better team for portions of the first half.  But after an ETSU corner kick that went directly into the goal, the TWC Bulldogs failed to bounce back.  Within another minute confusion on defense forced an error in which Tennessee Wesleyan put in an own goal in attempt to clear a goal line deflection.  Another ETSU attack followed resulting in a header goal from a perfectly timed cross.  The Bulldogs went into half time with their heads down and losing 3-0.  They bounced back the 2nd half to battle it out again and get a few shots on frame but ETSU proved too strong offensively and rounded out their scoring with another goal with 10 minutes left in the game.  The Lady Bulldogs played well despite the tough loss and know that playing the NCAA Division One level school will help them in the long run.  ETSU led in shots with 21 total while TWC only got away 2 on frame.  Chealsey Baxter played 90 minutes in goal for the Bulldogs.