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Game 5 (3-0-2)
13 September at Home vs. BV West at 7:00 (1-1, 2 OT)




Well, new head coach of the BV West Jags, Kyle Conely, showed up with a plan. They parked the bus 9/10 deep and looked for a counter attack—and they got one late in the match with 11:23 left in the game.

Barrett Kitts found Muckerman with just over 4 to go to get the thing tied, and then we had a flurry of just misses, and even a goal—that was offsides by a couple of feet. It probably was an entertaining match to watch as we created all kinds of opportunities, but to West's credit they thwarted us just about every time.

At halftime, we had only generated one corner—usually a large hint that we are not really attacking as we want to attack. But second half and through overtime we logged 10 corners; quite an onslaught. But only a couple of the services offered us some legit chances to score.

Our defense had to get into the attack and they did a nice job of it. 

Garcia had another monster game at the "6." And Miles Laws played most of the match for the injured John Weinrich, and he was solid all night.

Freshman, Jayden Janeway made his varsity debut, looking dangerous a couple of times. He will get some more chances.

We took something like 20 shots to their 4, but their goal was not to get shots, but just to keep us out of the net, and they did a very good job of that.

We have Southwest Thursday, and that will be a test. We need to get some goals from the field again, or improve our corner services.

Onward!

Interview with Muck

STATS:

First Half:

Saints: Shots: 9 (6) Corners: 1 (Welsh)

Jags: Shots: 2 (1) Corners: 1

Second Half and OT:

Saints: Shots: 11 (8) Corners: 10 (Ryan 2, Kitts 3, Young, Consuegra 2, Garcia, Bjorseth)

4:09 Muckerman (gets the return pass from Kitts)

Jags: Shots: 2 (2) Corners: 1

11:23 Magness (we fail defensively here as we allow the long cross into the box which is headed wide with two of our defenders collapsing on the header instead of our wide defender holding his zone on the back post) 




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