Another contest played in dismal weather forced Lumber Jake to dress for deer hunting succes. Thank goodness the warm up music was great....... if you lived in Scotland in 1981 and were inebriated. I don't think I have ever heard Dexy's Midnight Runners' "Come on Eileen" twice in a day, ever! The weather would eventually have an impact on the superb sound system as well. The announcer however never gave up even though all you could hear was part of every 62nd word.
FIRST HALF
Bethany used the trademark "NorthWood" kick off to create danger in the first seconds of the game but thanks to a early great save by Maliq Taylor the scoreboard did not have to be changed. Most of the first twenty minutes went to bethany who came at the Panthers thru mostly #7 Jesse Ramer. He took the ball and distributed much like Vervynckt had done a couple of days earlier. In the 20th, Lincoln got a ball thru the box but it went wide for our first corner. In the 30th a NW counter from Eddie landed on the far right side of the box where the Bruins keeper tried to keep the ball in. Conner beat him to the ball and with the keeper out, shot the ball at a difficult angle at the goal. The ball hit the crossbar and went over.
SECOND HALF
Bethany started pressing right away in an effort to get a quick goal. They were succesful in the 45th minute when a ball in the box could not be cleared out sufficiently. Bruins midfielder Matt Weaver got a boot on the ball and knocked it in the back of the net for the 1-0. But now we got to see the real NW soccer team. Responding in aggressive attacking fashion, it was Lincoln who turned up the heat in the 47th with a shot that missed to the right. Minutes later a cross was headed by Noodle on goal and the Bruins goalie was lucky in grabbing it with his right hand. It could have been the equalizer. For the first fifteen minutes after the Bethany goal, NorthWood was the team in control of the game. Nice passes were strung together and dangerous attacks came especially over the left flank, courtesy of Eddie and Lincoln. The defense had another solid performance with exceptional play from Cam, Cesar and (Lumber)Jake who kept stuffing Ramer time and time again. With ten minutes left to play, more players were told to play in a more offensive mode. Kronk and Eddie pushed up more and it created more pressure on the Bethany defense. With 20seconds left to play a ball played at the Bethany sweeper was not cleared cleanly. As a matter of fact, the sweeper hit the ball with his outside right that made the ball go to his right while the spin on the ball made it go away from the goalie. Lincoln was very alert and ran onto the ball and shot the ball into the net to put NW level at 1-1. With time running out (quote from the announcer: "en, ine, eight, ven, ix,%$&#,or, three, ooo, one")NorthWood ended up with its second tie in three days against very good teams (combined 25 wins and three losses). With a good result tomorrow against and in Angola, the Panthers would have quite some momentum going into the LaVille Sectional.
JV
The JV played another close game but again came out on top by beating Bethany 1-0 on a Taylor Wegmiller (#8 for the season)although the Elkhart Truth has Clayton Seitz listed as the goal scorer. Speaking of Seitz; if you know anyone who goes to Bethany, tell them that Clayton's brother Cam left them a nice present by the first bush east of the RR crossing. If you find it you can keep it. Or split it with your friends. The JV record is now 7-5-2. If they win tomorrow, they will tie the school record of 8 wins (that record was 8-4-2, I believe in 2005). Kyle has recorded 7 shut outs so far (JV record).
The Varsity's record is 6-5-3 and a win tomorrow will guarantee a winning season again!
JV players need to be aware of the fact that they can only eat one (1, uno, un, een, eins)bag of chips. That way all varsity players will have one as well.
Bus leaves at 9 am at the AC. 11 and 1 pm starts tomorrow, should be back between 4 and 4:30 pm.
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