IU Men's Soccer vs. Mexico Youth National Team

So I was asked Monday night to shoot the annual IU Men's soccer matchup against the Mexico Youth National Team. Stressed out with papers and needing something fun to do, I took up the offer, reserved the 20d and 300lens, and checked it out. It was my second sporting event sporting the Canon 20d and I will say, it is definitely wonderful. Blows the Nikon d2h out of the water in image quality and the autofocusing mechanism is not too bad either. I will most definitely look into investing in a 20d or 30d this summer if I am lucky. My second body XTi was working out well with the 70-200 lens which surprise me due to its somewhat lackluster autofocus system. Anyways, here is the link to my results--a slideshow was put up on the IDS's website.

IU Men's Soccer vs. Mexico Youth National Team slideshow

Image number four was my money shot for the night and I hope to post it up here tomorrow. Also have to love the randomness of the Mexico crowd. A guy actually showed up dressed as a luchador--crazy! Those Mexicans sure made the Hoosier fan section look like crap. Oh, and try to disregard the silly grammatical errors in the captions.

This was my shot of the night:

It was shot tight, too, with only a little trimming action around the edges to center the action better in the frame. It kind of sucks though--so many people shoot wide with large file sizes and then crop in to make it look as if they shot tight, I feel as if my photo's effect is slightly lessened because of this. Oh well, the experienced eye can tell this was shot tight due to the short depth of field so I do not feel as bad...