By Sung Eun Song
International School
The Cooperative junior varsity boys soccer team scored a 2-1 victory over International on the International field Thursday. The game was great, but must have been hard on the players because of the smoky weather.
International got another great chance near the end of the first half when a shot from the right hand side of the net got past Jaguar defender Richard Salvatierra and curled across the front of the goal. Griffin Jorge Capobianco slammed the ball hard, but the Jaguar goalie made the save.
Jaguar Laurencio Monasterio had an excellent chance to even the score at the start of the second half, and he didn’t miss. He dribbled the ball through the left corner of the field and shot accurately into the net.
it. (10, Cooperative) dribbled the ball along the left corner side and shoot it accurately into the net.
The second half was full of excellent opportunities for both teams. Each team had several chances, but neither team seemed able to put the ball into the net. Cooperative had actually had its best chance when ReinaldoChavez headed the ball toward an open goal. However, the ball bounced down to the ground and was blocked by the International goalie Juan Pablo Velasco.
During the second half, both Cooperative and International teams picked up a yellow card with the opponents being awarded a free kick from fairly short range, but neither resulted in a goal. The game looked like it would end in a tie, but the Jaguars in the person of Reinaldo Chavez got one last chance to win it, and made good on it, atoning for his earlier miss.
The win gives Cooperative a ticket to the Big Dance -- the championship game against Cambridge next week. International will play Christian Learning for third place in the consolation game.
It was (3) who pulled Jaguars to within a single goal 2-1. After that, Cooperative had another chance but the shot hit the crossbar and bounced off. International also kept threatening, but Cooperative made the necessary saves. (15) and (16) were the outstanding defenders of Cooperative.
The game ended with the little Jaguars ahead 2-1.
The Cooperative junior varsity boys soccer team tallied twice in the second half to manufacture a 2-1 win over International on the International field Thursday afternoon.Jose Eduardo Coloma scored to give the Griffins a 1-0 halftime lead.
Jaguars Reinaldo Chavez and Agustin Velasquez scored in the second half to give Cooperative the win and the opportunity to face Cambridge in the championship game next week. .
Cambridge JV beats Eagles 5-0
The Cambridge junior varsity boys soccer team burst its way into the championship game with a 5-0 win over Christian Learning in the semifinal game played on the Cooperative field Thursday afternoon.
The Knight scoring was spread among five players -- Percy Vidal, Mirko Sempertegui, Gabriel Alonso, Kevin Pulis and Leonardo Arges.
The plot of the game was quite predictable, following the story line of the two previous meetings between the two teams. Cambridge's superior size and skill enabled them to more or less toy with the relatively puny Eagles. Mercifully the referee seemed to call the game a few minutes early, which may have helped keep the score down. The Cambridge goalie only had to make one save that observers could recall afterwards.
Cambridge led 2-0 at the half.
Cambridge, which finished first in the regular season by a tiny margin will now face Cooperative in the championship game. The two teams tied 1-1 in both of their prior meetings this year, with each team winning one of the shootouts, in each case by a single goal. Christian Learning will play International in the consolation game.
(Keith Wilcke of Christian Learning provided this account.)
