NorthWood-Bethany Christian 6-1 (3-0)

The regular season ends at home on the coldest and wettest night of the season. A cold rain can not dampen the Panthers' spirit tonight as we go for win # 10. Despite a 3rd minute shot by Sebastian that needs a stretched out save from the Bruins stopper, the Panthers start off very slow as they have in the last few matches. It is something that needs corrected come tournament time. Fortunately Cam Iwema snaps us out of it in the 17th with a nice split pass to Andre De Freitas. Andre's shot hits the net, 1-0! Chandler comes up the middle in the 23rd and gets the ball to Andre whose shot goes past the keep for a 2-0 lead. Kayden gets involved when he finds Sebastian Guillen three minutes before the tea. Sebastian's run parallel with the top of the box to his right makes the keeper go to his left. At that moment, Seba slots the ball into the keepers right corner and the Bruins goalie can not get close to the nice finish on the ground; 3-0.

JOEY'S LIP-AFTER "TREATMENT" HALF TIME - Little adjustment is needed so the HT talk is short. SECOND HALF- It is not easy to play a normal game in this cold and rainy weather. But we do decent and in the 63rd Andre attacks near the 18 but is confronted with a wall of Bruins defenders so he decides to drop the ball back to Sebastian who is about 10 yards drop from Andre. A one touch laser from Sebastian disappears into the goal for a very comfortable 4-0 lead. Bethany does not threaten a lot and Graber has a slow night. Two minutes later, Chan gets his second assist of the evening. He passes the ball to Andre. Andre turns and shoots and with the ball going over the line, he ties the single season scoring record with the games 5th and his 24th goal of the season. A few minutes later, Andre records his 4th of the night and 25th of the season which sets the NorthWood all time single season record. Congratulations to Andre De Freitas. He now has only 5 goals to go to break the all time overall scoring record for NorthWood. That record is still held by Rodrigo Dosal with 59 total career goals. All field players make it onto the field tonight in the last home appearance this season.The Bruins score in the 76th to make the final 6-1.

JOEY BRINGS THE BALL DOWN THE FIELD IN FIRST HALF ACTION The regular season ends with a 10-3-3 record. The entire season we have had the focus on getting better for the post season. With our hope to stay healthy (not as healthy as hoped with two players out for a couple of weeks) but certainly healthy and stron enough to have a good showing in our Sectional. We feel well prepared and want to show we can do better than last season.

THESE SENIORS ARE FINISHED FOR THE NIGHT BUT NOT DONE YET FOR THE SEASON // NOTES - Practice at the HS today from 3-4:30ish. Next Game: Monday at 5 pm at West Noble versus Lakeland. Arbitration was almost flawless last night. We have never seen this ref but I wonder if he is new to the area. On the DUTCH TOUCH REF SCORING CARD he gets a solid 8!