At the Rock

 Game 14: (10-3-1)
12 October vs. Rockhurst at Rockhurst (0-3)


Well, the streak ended. In the last five years, we were 4-0-1 against Rockhurst, but that street abruptly ended tonight with a 3-0 knockout. The game began a little bit like Naperville North, as we got knocked to the ground early, falling behind 2-0. And then like Naperville, we made some lineup changes and appeared to have righted the ship, and were now looking for that first goal.

But we just broke down with only seconds left in the half to give up that killer third goal that about ends it. Their frosh had all three as well. We played better in the second half, missed a PK, put ourselves in another couple of good scoring positions, but we did not score.

But in those 2-0 matches, you need to get to one before the other side gets to 3.  And we did not.

Rockhurst did some nice things strategically, but we just were not sharp when we needed to be—the beginning of the match.

I thought Cooper Welsh had one of his better games, and he had probably our best match. Barrett was pretty good too; even though he was being marked out, he earned us the PK; he found Ethan going forward a couple of very nice times, and he was on the ball a lot moving us into our attack.

This is one we probably just need to forget as we have a much more important match on Thursday against one-loss West. We still have a shot a the EKL title, and we still have a shot at the 3-seed.

So big match coming.

Hats off to Rockhurst. They played very well.

STATS:  

First Half:

Saints: Shots: 1 (1) Corners: 1 (Young)

Rock:  Shots: 5 (3) Corners: 1

38:05 Kohring (Pileggi's long throw gets flicked into the 6-box by Boessen for a touch-in)

30:00 Kohring (we allow a long diagonal from left wing at midfield to Kante who plays the diagonal ball off our chest and down to Uchan as he quickly gets the ball to his right to fire the ball off the post and in)

:07 Kohring (T. Franke chips it forward)

Second Half:

Saints: Shots: 3 (1) Corners: 1 (Young)

Rock: Shots: 3 (1) Corners: 2



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