Friday, August 23, 2019

Tippy Valley Vikings - NorthWood 0-11 (0-7)

Nothing special falls out of the Viking Mystery Machine that can help the Tippy Valley soccer team against the Panthers. From the start NW dominates with possession. In the 4th Michael Hahn assists Jerson Sanchez for his first goal of the season. Chandler Bontrager wants to get in on the action as well when he lasers a shot that finds the crossbar in the 5th. The scoreboard changes to 0-2 when Jerson finds the feet of Sebastian Guillen who decidedly shoots the leather behind "Double Zero". Jerson stays involved when he ends up at the receiving end of a Andre De Freitas free kick by way of a rebound in the 18th; 0-3. Sixty ticks later, Jerson decides to put his stamp on the game again by once again hooking up with Andre (assist) for Jerson's first hat trick of the very young season, 0-4! Three minutes later, Marshall Beebe swings a corner into the box where Kayden Newcomer places the ball over the line; 0-5. Another corner in the 30th lands near Jason Weldy's boots who shoots.....and scores (0-6 if you are still counting). In the 35th, Jason finds himself in possession of the ball again and scores an unassisted goal to give the Panthers a 0-7 half time lead. The focus of the second half remains on possession and some pressing and turns more into a glorified practice then a game. In the 46th, Sebastian neglects to put a header in the goal when a nice cross into the 18 goes over. In the 53rd, Andre places a perfect ball in front of Kayden who makes no mistake and signs for NW goal #8. A nice Chase Duerksen lay off pass goes to Marshall Beebe who puts a screamer into the net. Marshall gets active again in the 69th when he places a nice pass to Kayden who decides to crank the ball hard and high into the ropes from about 30 out; 0-10! With two minutes left on the clock, Chandler executes a perfect split pass to Cam Iwema who, with a terrific finish, rips the ball to the right of the Tippy Valley GK dressed in highlighter garb for the final score, 0-11. A good practice game to start the season. The field wasn't great (tall grass), the opponent wasn't great but our performance was very satisfactory with a lot of possession and crisp passing. A job well done by the boys. Now it goes up a notch when we visit the Lakers on Monday Night.

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