The bus trip to Jackson field was uneventful although we missed a player again or better put; a player again missed the bus. This time it was Pancho's turn, Barahona and Villa are tied in that category. Pancho Villa's vehicle broke down on the way to the High School so we had to do without him today.
US 20 Bypass traffic was about all we could hear on the bench. When the national anthem was played coach Duerksen stated that he was pretty sure it was the national anthem since he could hear "a few bars here and there".
FIRST HALF
NW came out of the starting blocks ready to play. Play in the first 5 minutes was dictated by the Panthers.It even got better in the 6th when Lincoln passed a ball to Seth in the right corner, Seth manages to pass 4 people in the box, get himself an angle at goal, take a shot and score.......1-0. In the 11th minute Lincoln gets kicked in the head and has to go to the sideline for treatment. Some of the contents of Dr. Widner's magic black box stopped the bleeding. In the 26th minute a Douwsma free kick lands on Ryan's head but misses accuracy. This was only a few minutes after Lincoln had a decent opportunity on the right side of the box but the shot ends up in the side net. Seth was able to collect another yellow today when he got carded for a tackle from behind in the 37th minute of play.(In this space I was planning on making a smart#** comment about that but I won't right now, I'll wait til after the next one). Just before time ran out in the first half, a kick from Maliq gets touched by Conner and ends up at Ryan's feet who takes the ball at speed around the Riley (#28) right defender, beats him and takes a left footed shot at the goal. The ball disappears in the left lower corner, 2-0. We've seen Ryan do this so many times in practice and it looked similar to the opprtunity he had against Goshen that did not go in.
TEA
Quite a few "suggestions" were made during intermission. Some defensive and some offensive, so there was something for everyone. Duerksen told the team that there were only two good players on Rileys team, #9 and.........uh....#9. One of Coach Duerksen last words were "the worst thing we can do is let in a junk goal early on".
SECOND HALF
Only four minutes into the second half Riley scored a junk goal inside our box. A short range shot went in after a few defensive mistakes. In the 50th minute several 1-2's involving Seth, Cesar and Christian end in a shot that is deflected for a corner. Twenty minutes later Nick went in for a 1v1 on the Riley GK. The GK got the ball and Nick got injured. In the 74th minute it was noted that Kenny G was able to come back in the game for Riley. The rest of the game went back and forth with minor opportunities for both teams. NorthWood was able to waste the last 3 minutes so we could walk off the field with a victory. The 2-1 win improves the Panthers' record to 4-4-3 on the season. Next up is Elkhart Memorial on Tuesday and John Glenn (potential sectional opponent) on Thursday. Both games are at home.
NOTES
Fruit shish-kebabs was the team's breakfast and well liked. Thank you Ryan's Mom!!!
The bus driver told us an interesting story about a conversation she had with another bus driver in the stands. I think that Coach Duerksen will probably give the team a short summary of that very interesting story (I saw him taking notes).
No report as of yet from the JV Tourney.
The Cubs clinched the NL Central in case you didn't know. Magic number is three for homefield advantage throughout the NLCS.
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