5 September 2009
Catholic Seals First Win
Posted by soccermom under: Irish Soccer .
For the second year, Catholic travelled to KC to face the Class 2 Pembroke Hill Raiders. The Raiders have historically had a strong soccer program with final four appearances in each of the past 5 years. Again this year, Springfield Catholic was able to defeat the Raiders, this year with a 3-1 score.
Catholic scored early, only 3 minutes and 15 seconds into the game, Luke Straus was able to score on a pass from free kick taken by Reid Harbach (Straus had been fouled creating the free kick opportunity). Unfortunately Pembroke Hill answered about 6 minutes later on a shot inside the 6 box in front of the goal. The game remained tied until the end of the first half.
The second half proved to have more energy by the Springfield Catholic creating a more successful passing game along with a fairly physical game by both teams. Catholic took the lead at 49:28 when David Bailey was able to score on a pass from Justin Bowenschulte. Catholic got the security goal at 76:37 when a deep punt from GK Levi Millsap was received by Luke Straus. Straus, beating the defense, was able to slip the ball past the Pembroke GK.
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Catholic’s success today was centered around a good passing game along with following a game plan of shutting down the opponent’s goal threats. Luke Straus noteably has 3 of the 4 goals scored by Catholic this year in their first two games. Other scoring threats were present today without being able to finish – but the opportunities were created and significant progress was made in just the past two games.
Varsity has an away game on Tuesday at Marsfield at 5:00 pm. The Marshfield JV game has been cancelled due to injuries on the Marshfield team.
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