STA Boys Soccer 2020

Game 18: (12-3-3) 30 October at Spring Hill at 4:00 in Regional Final (1-0) Today our 18-straight regional streak was on the line (28 overall). We met a senior-heavy (10) Spring Hill team that featured a former Sporting Junior in the middle of the field and several other very good players. And we got a sneak preview of the field where the Final 4 will take place.  Somehow we made it out of Dodge, I mean Spring Hill, with a win. Spring Hill very effectively put numbers behind the ball, and for the first half, we kept attacking down the middle—so not likely to score, and we did not. In the second half, we did go wide a lot more, creating several very good opportunities that we failed to dummy, where we had two guys run into one another, or where we missed wide.  The goal was a thing of beauty, though. Zayveon came up from left back to drop a long diagonal to the back post for Liam Ryan’s first varsity goal. The ball had started with Liam on the left side from a pass from Welch before Lia

Game 17 (11-3-3) 28 October at Home vs. (7-3-0) Blue Valley Southwest (3-1) CoVID (geographic seeding) probably brought the most improbable first-round match-up in the history of the Kansas playoffs—the two teams who most soccer pundits would predict would play in the State Finals. But honestly, both teams were just happy to have the opportunity to play at all during this pandemic when the season looked plenty iffy for quite some time.  I am not sure we have played any better this season than we played tonight. We got out of the gate quickly scoring 3 goals in the first 20 minutes—now, granted only two of them were allowed, but we scored 3 legit goals in 20 minutes. I give Coach Jones an "A" for coaching as I have never seen a goal taken off the board for a supposed foul that took place right in front of the center ref some 40 seconds before the goal and before the pass that would have been the assist was made, called back after the same center ref signaled goal and we were l

  EKL Wins Losses Ties Blue Valley West             5              0         2 0.857 Blue Valley Northwest             5              1          1 0.786 Blue Valley Southwest 5 2 0 0.714 Saint Thomas Aquinas 3             3          1 0.500 Blue Valley              3             3          1 0.500 Bishop Miege              1             4          2 0.286 St. James Academy              1             5          1 0.214 Blue Valley North               1             6           0 0.143 EKL Goalie of  Year Colin Welsh BVW EKL Forward of Year Victor Lopez BM EKL Midfielder of Year Will Vancrum BVNW EKL Defender of Year Remy Wood BVW EKL Coach of Year Brian Pollack BVNW EKL Ass. Co-Coaches of Year Michelle Pothoven BVNW EKL Ref of Year Nathan Colling First Team First Last Year Position School Blake Barrick Jr Offense BVW Kaden Cripe Jr. Defender BVW Mitchell Farrar Sr defender STA Luke Happer SR D SJA Baha Ibrahim So Midfield BVSW Aidan Knauth Sr. Midfield BVNW Victor Lopez JR FWD BM Keagan