MIDDLEBORO – Megan Moriarty, a coach of the Middleboro Middle School’s girl’s soccer team, said that the team had shown significant improvement in between their two matchups against Berkley.

“We have come a very long way,” Moriarty said. When the team had last played Berkley on Sept. 28, she said, “our captain broke her foot five minutes into that game [and] we ended up losing seven to two.”

On Tuesday’s matchup on Oct. 24, Middleboro lost with a score of 4-1. Middleboro captain Kennedy Frawley scored the team’s only goal from a penalty kick.

“We have only won two games,” Moriarty explained, “but the improvement that they have seen in terms of sportsmanship, being good teammates, good athletes, we are much happier with that.”

A focus of the team’s practices was “winning all the fifty-fifty balls” she added.

Tuesday’s game was significant because it was the last home game for the team’s eighth graders. But the team still has objectives for the rest of the season, Moriarty said.

“This is our last home game [but] we still have three away games,” she said. “The whole theme of our post-game talk was: ‘we’re not done.’”