The playoffs are upon us and we didn't disappoint. Even the expected wind and rain stayed away and allowed us to play the game under pretty good conditions.
Darien Naraghi got us on the board at the 10 minutes mark when Eric Budniewski sent a crossing pass into the box that Evan Myers deflected over to Dairen, who then deposited into the back of the net to give us the early lead. The 1st half was pretty even with both teams getting a couple of good opportunities.
In the 52nd minute, Eric Budniewski's corner kick landed in front of Evan Myers, who had his shot blocked, it then rolled over to Luke Flud who put it into the net for a seemingly comfortable 2-0 lead. Mira Mesa had other ideas though. They got on the board with about 10 minutes left on a 25 yard blast that just went under the crossbar. This made for a wild finish. Mira Mesa kept the pressure on and were awarded a corner kick with about 2 minutes left. The ball never made it into the box and was deflected over the Eric Budniewski. Eric started his run deep in our end, moved up the left side of the field, crossed over to the right side at midfield. Once he got deep into the Mira Mesa zone he faked out one defender, crossed back over where he faked out a 2nd defender, then shot a low left footed ball into the corner of the net for the goal of the year. It pushed our lead back to two and that is where it ended up. To bad PPR wasn't there to get that one on tape. Zach McDonnel picked up his 17th win on the season. Next up will be another rematch with Torrey Pines @ home on Tuesday @ 7:00pm.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Rancho Bernardo Game Update - 2-18-2011
What an effort. Already knowing that Westview had defeated Mt. Carmel earlier in the day 1-0, we knew that we needed to win in order to grab a share of the Palomar League title for the 2nd straight year....Boy did we come to play......On a cold and rainy night we wanted to show everyone that we indeed are the team to beat. With our sweeper and defensive leader, Sean Gallagher, sitting out his second straight game, our defense and goaltender stepped it up.
Ben Faller, wearing Sean Gallaghers jersey, got us started in the 31st minute, when off a corner kick from Eric Budniewski, he rose above the R.B. defense to head the ball past the R.B. goaltender. There was no more scoring in the 1st half.
Early in the 2nd half we were able to push our lead to 2-0 when Ben Faller, again, was in the right place at the right time. The score came off a free kick from Eric Budniewski that was deflected by Ernie Reyes, right to Ben, who then headed it into the net to pad our lead. After that it was just up to our defense including Nick Custis, Zach Lentz, Kyle Hess, Ben Faller, Chris Kusunoki, and Ernie Reyes to keep R.B. away from our goal. The defense played great. Not to be left out was our goaltender, Zach McDonnell. Zach registered his league leading 9th shutout of the year. Many of his saves were incredible but none better than when he deflected a shot over the goal in the last two minutes. Other players pitching in and playing a good game were Evan Myers, Kevin Meyer, Eric Budniewski, Jeff Meyer, Luke Flud and freshman Sasha Peranteau, a recent call up from the JV team.
As the final whistle sounded the boys stormed the field and celebrated their 2nd straight Co-Palomar League championship. On hand to help in the celebration was Poway all-time leading scorer and U.C. Davis star Alex Henry. Playoff brackets will be announced on Saturday.
Ben Faller, wearing Sean Gallaghers jersey, got us started in the 31st minute, when off a corner kick from Eric Budniewski, he rose above the R.B. defense to head the ball past the R.B. goaltender. There was no more scoring in the 1st half.
Early in the 2nd half we were able to push our lead to 2-0 when Ben Faller, again, was in the right place at the right time. The score came off a free kick from Eric Budniewski that was deflected by Ernie Reyes, right to Ben, who then headed it into the net to pad our lead. After that it was just up to our defense including Nick Custis, Zach Lentz, Kyle Hess, Ben Faller, Chris Kusunoki, and Ernie Reyes to keep R.B. away from our goal. The defense played great. Not to be left out was our goaltender, Zach McDonnell. Zach registered his league leading 9th shutout of the year. Many of his saves were incredible but none better than when he deflected a shot over the goal in the last two minutes. Other players pitching in and playing a good game were Evan Myers, Kevin Meyer, Eric Budniewski, Jeff Meyer, Luke Flud and freshman Sasha Peranteau, a recent call up from the JV team.
As the final whistle sounded the boys stormed the field and celebrated their 2nd straight Co-Palomar League championship. On hand to help in the celebration was Poway all-time leading scorer and U.C. Davis star Alex Henry. Playoff brackets will be announced on Saturday.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Westview Game Update - 2-16-2011
With a chance to clinch the Palomar League title we came out strong. Nick Custis got us going at the 4 minute mark when he ripped a shot from 25 yards out into the corner of the net to give us an early 1-0 lead. Westview was able to tie it up about 10 minutes before halftime when a throw in was re-directed over the head of our goalie, Zach McDonnell. That's the way the 1st half ended.
The 2nd half was mostly played on our half of the field, our defense saved two goals that were definately going into the net. The pressure Westview was applying finally paid off for them as they scored off another throw in with 18 minutes remaining. The rest of the game was all about Westview trying to clear the ball out of their zone as soon as they could. We were able to get a few scoring chances but were turned back everytime and the game ended in a 2-1 loss. Our 1st loss of the year. Zach McDonnell also suffered his 1st loss of the year after starting the season 15-0-3.
Westview is now tied with us for 1st place with Rancho Bernardo only 2 points behind. A win against Rancho Bernardo on Friday will still clinch us at least a share of the Palomar league title. This was our 1st game played without Sean Gallagher, our sweeper, since he was injured by a Ramona Player last game. Sean is doing much better and we hope his presence on the bench, along with peachy, will give us the extra motivation we need when we play Rancho Bernardo @ 7:00pm at R.B. Come on out and support us on our last regular season game.
The 2nd half was mostly played on our half of the field, our defense saved two goals that were definately going into the net. The pressure Westview was applying finally paid off for them as they scored off another throw in with 18 minutes remaining. The rest of the game was all about Westview trying to clear the ball out of their zone as soon as they could. We were able to get a few scoring chances but were turned back everytime and the game ended in a 2-1 loss. Our 1st loss of the year. Zach McDonnell also suffered his 1st loss of the year after starting the season 15-0-3.
Westview is now tied with us for 1st place with Rancho Bernardo only 2 points behind. A win against Rancho Bernardo on Friday will still clinch us at least a share of the Palomar league title. This was our 1st game played without Sean Gallagher, our sweeper, since he was injured by a Ramona Player last game. Sean is doing much better and we hope his presence on the bench, along with peachy, will give us the extra motivation we need when we play Rancho Bernardo @ 7:00pm at R.B. Come on out and support us on our last regular season game.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Ramona Game Update 2-11-2011
The boys came to play. Eric Budniewski got us started at the 16 minute mark when he took a Nick Custis pass and ripped it into the back of the net for a 1-0 lead. Evan Meyer pushed the lead to 2-0 when he re-directed a cross from Eric Budniewski into the back of the net. After halftime we were able to pour it on....Evan Myers picked up his 2nd goal of the game on a pass from Nick Custis. Six minutes later Eric Budniewski scored his 17th goal of the season on a great long pass from Kevin Meyer. Evan Myers completed his hat trick by putting away his league leading 25th goal of the season. Heber Torres finished the scoring on a pass from Alejandro Berry.
The game was stopped at the 22 minute mark of the 2nd half when a Ramona player decided he had enough of our defense and went after our sweeper, Sean Gallagher. The Ramona player threw more than one punch to Sean's face. Sean ended up going to the hospital and then to the oral surgeon where he had surgery to repair 3 fractures to his upper jaw line and re-align his teeth. In addition to that he had stitches to his chin and inside his mouth....Unfortunately, it looks like our # 1 defender is done for the year. We all are hoping for a quick and successful return. Our thoughts are with him. The Ramona player was given a Red Card and hopefully will not play another high school soccer game.
Our next game will be Wednesday when we travel west on the 56 to take on Westview with a chance to clinch the Palomar League title. Game time is 5:00pm.
The game was stopped at the 22 minute mark of the 2nd half when a Ramona player decided he had enough of our defense and went after our sweeper, Sean Gallagher. The Ramona player threw more than one punch to Sean's face. Sean ended up going to the hospital and then to the oral surgeon where he had surgery to repair 3 fractures to his upper jaw line and re-align his teeth. In addition to that he had stitches to his chin and inside his mouth....Unfortunately, it looks like our # 1 defender is done for the year. We all are hoping for a quick and successful return. Our thoughts are with him. The Ramona player was given a Red Card and hopefully will not play another high school soccer game.
Our next game will be Wednesday when we travel west on the 56 to take on Westview with a chance to clinch the Palomar League title. Game time is 5:00pm.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Torrey Pines Game Update 2-09-2011
This game looked like a repeat of our last game with Torrey Pines..Very physical, lots of yellow cards, some red cards (for them) and the most important stat of all...the final score...2-1 Us....
We started fast as Eric Budniewski took a nice pass from Luke Flud and left footed the ball into the corner of the net just past the outstretched hands of the goalie for his 15th goal of the season just 5 minutes into the game...Torrey was able to tie it up at the 19 minute mark when they headed a ball into the net off a free kick...It stayed that way until halftime.
Coach Gene Morris, as he has done on numerous occasions was able to deliver his terrific halftime pep talk. The boys seemed to respond and after several close calls we were able to take the lead for good when Kevin Meyers took a hard shot from 25 yards out that looked like it was heading into the coner of the net but the Torrey Pines goalie came out of nowhere to make a tremendous save but Evan Myers was in great position to knock home the rebound for his 22nd goal of the year 10 minutes into the 2nd half.
The defense, led by Sean Gallagher, Ben Faller, Zach Lentz, Nick Custis, Ernie Reyes and our goalie Zach McDonnell were able to make it stand up....Also playing solid for Poway in the win were Darien Naraghi, Alejandro Berry, Heber Torres and Sean Murray. The win gave us the season sweep of Torrey, pushed our record to 21-0-3 and stretched our unbeaten streak to 24 games....In both of our games against Torrey Pines this year Eric Budniweski and Evan Myers were the goal scorers and Luke Flud along with Kevin Meyer were the players with assists. We also held the high scoring Falcons to one goal in each game......Our last regular season game at home will be against Ramona on Friday @ 5:00pm. Come on out and support the team on Senior Night.....
We started fast as Eric Budniewski took a nice pass from Luke Flud and left footed the ball into the corner of the net just past the outstretched hands of the goalie for his 15th goal of the season just 5 minutes into the game...Torrey was able to tie it up at the 19 minute mark when they headed a ball into the net off a free kick...It stayed that way until halftime.
Coach Gene Morris, as he has done on numerous occasions was able to deliver his terrific halftime pep talk. The boys seemed to respond and after several close calls we were able to take the lead for good when Kevin Meyers took a hard shot from 25 yards out that looked like it was heading into the coner of the net but the Torrey Pines goalie came out of nowhere to make a tremendous save but Evan Myers was in great position to knock home the rebound for his 22nd goal of the year 10 minutes into the 2nd half.
The defense, led by Sean Gallagher, Ben Faller, Zach Lentz, Nick Custis, Ernie Reyes and our goalie Zach McDonnell were able to make it stand up....Also playing solid for Poway in the win were Darien Naraghi, Alejandro Berry, Heber Torres and Sean Murray. The win gave us the season sweep of Torrey, pushed our record to 21-0-3 and stretched our unbeaten streak to 24 games....In both of our games against Torrey Pines this year Eric Budniweski and Evan Myers were the goal scorers and Luke Flud along with Kevin Meyer were the players with assists. We also held the high scoring Falcons to one goal in each game......Our last regular season game at home will be against Ramona on Friday @ 5:00pm. Come on out and support the team on Senior Night.....
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Mt. Carmel Game Update 2-04-2011
What a difference two weeks make. After we beat Mt. Carmel two weeks ago 7-0 they were looking for a little revenge. It was a hard fought and defensive battle as both teams had scoring opportunities but neither could find the back of the net and the game ended up in a 0-0 tie. Mt. Carmel had a defender who could throw the ball in as he was doing a flip throw and the ball would travel 30-40 yards in the air. We were able to deflect each one of his throws away from the goal.
Philip Bru and Zach McDonnell were able to keep Mt. Carmel off the board and our defense helped out to keep the game scoreless. We just couldn't take advantage of the chances we had. We continue our tough Palomar league schedule with an important home game on Wednesday vs Torrey Pines @ 5:00pm.
Philip Bru and Zach McDonnell were able to keep Mt. Carmel off the board and our defense helped out to keep the game scoreless. We just couldn't take advantage of the chances we had. We continue our tough Palomar league schedule with an important home game on Wednesday vs Torrey Pines @ 5:00pm.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Westview Game Update 2-02-2011
At least it wasn't a loss. Our 19 game winning streak came to an end but our unbeaten streak was pushed to 22 games without a loss. On a cold and very windy night Westview came out fast and converted a corner kick to take a 1-0 halftime lead. We were able to tie it up 6 minutes into the 2nd half when Evan Myers converted a pass from Nick Custis for his league leading 21st goal of the season. The rest of the game was back and forth with Poway almost taking the lead with 3 minutes left when a corner kick was knocked around the goal crease and just cleared away before we could knock it in. Zach McDonnell came up big in the final minute with a great save off a free kick just outside the box. The tie left us still on top of the Palomar League standings with a 4-0-1 record. We start our 2nd round of league games on Friday @ Mt. Carmel @ 5:00pm.
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