WASHINGTON —
It wasn’t pretty, but the Washington Catholic boys soccer team won their ninth game in a row to stay unbeaten in 2012.
Washington Catholic (13-0-1) defeated Wood Memorial, 8-1, Monday at Rees Field behind four goals from Colton Reed and three from Blaine Fuhs.
Wood Memorial sophomore Noah Fritts put the Trojans up only four minutes into play, putting the Cardinals on the defensive early. Less than nine minutes later, Reed tied the game with his first goal of the night on a breakaway.
In the 23rd minute, Brantly Smith put the Cardinals up ,2-1, when he went to the right of Trojan defender Braydon Maikranz and put a shot past goalie Sam Steiner. Fuhs scored the Cardinals the third goal of the first half after Steiner lost possession of the ball after he stopped a shot in front of the goal. Despite the three-goal first half, head coach Wayne Neace felt his team could have played a lot better.
“This is another one of those games where we had beaten them (Wood Memorial) in the past, so we thought we just had to show up to win the game,” Neace said.
“I told them No. 4 (Fritts) was pretty good and they left him alone in the first three minutes of the game and he put the ball in the back of the net. Still we didn’t play our best, we still didn’t think we had to do our best to win, we played like that.”
In the first half, Washington Catholic was called for five offside penalties, all involving Reed. Neace was perplexed by the calls on Reed.
“Colton Reed is a better player than to get five or six calls in a row,” Neace said. “Colton is so quick to the ball and if the referee is not in position, he just sees Colton getting to the ball first. Colton just has the speed, he’s 6-4 and long legged. Two or three steps for him is five or six to somebody else.”
The Cardinals put up five more goals in the second half, three from Reed and two more from Fuhs, but as Washington Catholic took control of the game, the Trojans appeared to get more physical on defense.
Trojan defender Jeff Williams was called for a yellow card for physical play, which was followed by a yellow on Smith, Neace didn’t quite understand.
“That (call) was a joke,” Neace said. “I think that was the referee trying to show he was in charge or something. Brantly crossed the ball and wasn’t part of the play after that. I don’t know.”
Neace said that he likes where his team is as the season winds down.
Neace said he would chalk up Monday’s game to his team just playing down to their competition, not something he is concerned about in the sectional.
“We want to work on our timing,” Neace said. “We got away from that, it looked like people wanted to get individual stats instead of moving the ball around. We have to possess the ball more in the offensive third, so we have to make sure those shots are good shots.”
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