Rancho Bernardo Game Update 1-28-2011

Wow, where do we start. How do you stop a team that scored 6 goals in their last league game.
Defense...that's how.....Our defense was spectacular. We held UCLA bound Reed McKenna and B.Y.U. bound Dallin Cutler to zero points and not to many good scoring opportunities. When they did have a shot on goal, Zach McDonnell was there to make the save. Zach recorded his league leading 7th shutout of the year. Our defense is anchored by junior center back Sean Gallagher and is backed up by junior stopper Ben Faller. Also pitching in along the back line were senior defenders Nick Custis, Zach Lentz and Freshman Ernie Reyes. A job well done by the boys....

We still need some offense to win games and tonights scoring leader was Senior Luke Flud. After a scoreless and tightly contested 1st half Luke got us on the board early in the 2nd half by converting a nice crossing pass from Darien Naraghi. Shortly after that goal it was Freshman Ernie Reyes rising up above all the players to head a ball into the back of the net on a nice corner from Eric Budniewski. Luke Flud finished out the scoring when Eric Budniewski finished off a nice run by crossing the ball into the box where Luke re-directed it into the net for his 9th goal of the season.

The game was very physical and two Rancho Bernardo players were shown the bench when each of them received their 2nd yellow. The crowd and players celebrated as the final whistle blew and we extracted a little revenge for our loss to R.B. in last years CIF semi-finals. I can't ever remember seeing as many fans to a soccer game as tonight...Lets hope we can get this much support for our next game....oh yeah, by the way...that was our 19th straight win.....Go Titans!!