The Finals of Great River Classic Top Bracket

Game 11 (8-2-1)
2 October in Burlington vs. Marquette University High in the finals (3-2 2OT’s)

I am trying to remember the last time we made it to the finals of this prestigious tourney. You have to beat two of the better teams in the country to get to play a third game against, usually, a Top 5 team in the country and this is Marquette who sits #6 in the United Soccer Coaches poll after taking down #4, Morton, in their semifinal.  So.

We will be even a little more short-handed today we believe as Joey got pretty banged up in our semi. So we will have another change to the starting line-up. 

Well, that lineup did not last long as Ethan was getting doubled hard up top. We moved Yoseph up to a target striker and that did seem to open up the game quite a bit. Yoseph also gives us quite a nice left-footed dead ball. 

His corner early in the second half tied it 1-1. And with only 18 minutes to go, Ryan earned us a PK that Ethan buried. We quickly surrendered the tying goal less than a minute later. 

It stayed there until there was only 3 minutes left in the second overtime when Marquette built a nice attack to the corner, got it crossed before it was half-volleyed just off Seeger’s diving save. 

Liam Ryan really had some key plays that don’t show up in the box score always. He created the corner we tied it on, and he earned the PK with his flick shot towards goal  

It was quite a high school soccer match, and it was quite a tournament for our boys. 

We leave The Great River Classic plenty upbeat despite falling in one hell of a championship match.


STATS:

First Half

Saints: Shots: 4 (2) Corners: 3 (Kitts 2, Young)

Hilltoppers: Shots: 8 (4) Corners: 2

32:00 Sandavol (PK)

Second Half: 

Saints: Shots: 8 (4) Corners: 3 (Kitts 2, Ryan)

37:50 Mason (Yoseph bends corner left)

17:50 Young (Ryan earns a PK on Handball)

17:20  Dankert (diagonal through ball from Sikorski)

3:15 OT 2 Gonzalez (Sikorski)

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