Winning After MidKnight
So far in two
games for the Middletown High School Knights Junior Varsity Boy’s Soccer team
the Knights have already developed a flair for stressful games as both of the
Knights contests have been determined in the final ten minutes of the game.
In Middletown’s
first game, a Holden Coblentz goal in the final five minutes of the game would
break a scoreless deadlock and give the Knights a 1-0 lead that they would hold
onto for the rest of the game helping them take down the Century High School
Knights by that same score.
Little did
they know it, but when the Knights traveled to Baltimore to take on the Eastern
Tech Mavericks on Friday September 9th they would be playing another
close game. Except this time the result would not fall in their favor as the
Knights would lose to the Mavericks by a score of 3-2 with a goal inside the
final ten minutes of the contest.
The teams
would play a back and forth game throughout much of the contest with both the
Knights and the Mavericks getting multiple good looks at the goal and pocketing
some of those chances to put the score at 2-2 heading into the final minutes of
the game.
Both teams
would have their chances to score and pick up the win as, similar to the last
game they played in, the Knights would pick up a more aggressive pace as the
game wore on with Middletown moving more players up the field and making more
attempts on goal.
Unfortunately,
for the Knights it would be the Mavericks who would score the goal and give
Eastern Tech a 3-2 victory in a heartbreaking finish and for Middletown it will
be time to go back to the drawing board.
Middletown
can continue to play close games but eventually things will get frustrating if
the Knights can’t overcome the opposition at the end and win the close games.
Middletown will
have more chances to do that as they head into the Frederick County portion of
their schedule as they’ll try to win games a bit more comfortably.
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