#16 NorthWood - Bremen 2-1 (1-0)

The JV gets its first win of the season by beating the Bremen JV 4-0 with goals from Joel Guzman (2), Chase Duerksen and Eduard Luna. Luis hits the bar on what could have been the prettiest goal of the night. The JV record is 1-1-1 (not bad considering they have already played Concord & Northridge). VARSITY FIRST HALF - The coaching staff has a good game plan but hopes that we show up for tonight's game after the hard fought win over Concord. It doesn't start out too good. Graber has to make a tipping save in the 5th to prevent a Bremen goal. Despite explaining that we just need decent shots on the frame we see players wanting to either make pretty shots or hard ones. In the 7th, Jerson rockets a shot towards the goal off a corner but the shot misses it target. Four minutes later, Sebastian does get a shot on the frame but the keeper makes a decent save. After a very nice NW build up, Andre split passes Sebastian who takes a hard shot that finds the side net. In the 19th Andre hits the post.Finally in the 29th, a long Sebastian pass finds Jerson near the right side of the box; he cuts in and his shot hits the ropes for a 1-0 half time lead. The quality of the game is not very good which is underscored by what seems to be a Bad Throw In Festival with contributions from both teams. When a Bremen player"throws"a ball into play, a Lions coach asked what was wrong with the throw, the center ref's reply is: "that's bad, bad, real bad!!". On the turnover, Angel also illegally returns the ball onto the pitch. Like the referee said; it was bad, bad, reeeaaaalll bad! SECOND HALF- It is ugly and I should maybe leave it with that. 6 minutes into the half, Bremen ties the game. Two minutes later, Graber has to prevent NW from falling behind by making a save in a 1v1 sutiation. When you think it gets better, it gets worse. First Sebastian gets fouled in the box (opponent's knee in the back of the head). The ensuing PK, taken by Andre, sails over the goal (thankfully we have ballcatchers).With only 15 ticks left on the game clock, Andre pushes a ball in the box, Chandler touches it and it ends up in front of Sebastian. Sebastian calmly slots the ball on the ground and past the keeper much to the relief of all NW fans, players and coaches and gives us 2-1 victory. The Panthers are 4-1 on the season. Next up, Tuesday (9/3/19) another home game when the Panthers host the Jimmies for the first time in boys soccer history. Our SR 19 neighbors to the north will be here for a 7 pm kick off. Hope to see all of you there again!! Go Panthers!