Varsity Boy's Soccer: Middletown Continues Massive Attack Against Century

By Ben Spector
Winning After MidKnight

 

Life is good for the Middletown High School Varsity Boy’s Soccer team. But then again why wouldn’t it be?

Middletown has been carrying the swagger that a defending state champion and have backed that swagger up with the results on the field as they look to do the same thing that they did almost a year ago.

Oh, and about those results. Middletown hasn’t just been winning games, they’ve been assaulting teams with a no-holds offense that has shown a potency that last year’s offense couldn’t even come close to.

So it was no surprise to see Middletown take the same approach when the Century High School Knights came to the Happy Valley and Middletown would deliver the same results with a 4-0 thrashing over Century that would be in Middletown’s control for pretty much the whole game.

Middletown’s vicious attack would be on fire from the start as it wouldn’t even take 15 minutes for the black and orange to put one in the back of the net as in the 11^th minute Josh Woozley would find himself alone with only the keeper to stop him.

His initial shot was stopped by the Century goalkeeper but the rebound would fall right back to the feet of Woozley who would do a quick one touch dribble around the goalie and then deposit the ball into the back of an empty net to give Middletown a 1-0 lead in the early going.

After former forward Clay Smith graduated last year there were questions about whether the Knights offense could keep up and who would be scoring the goals for the Knights this year.

Woozley has answered those questions rather definitively as in the first three games of the season the Middletown senior forward has put on an absolute show to start the season, using his speed and physicality to overwhelm opponents and stake his claim as one of the best players in Frederick County.

The first goal for Woozley would be his 6^th of the season but the senior wasn’t done there as in the 38^th minute he would continue his assault with his 2^nd goal of the game. Middletown senior Luke Ahalt would have a ball open on the left wing and would look to cross just outside of the box. Ahalt would complete his cross to the empty boot of Woozley who would receive the cross on top of the goal and would deposit the ball in the net to give Middletown a 2-0 lead over their Carroll County opposition.

The Knights weren’t done at 2-0 either as after the halftime break Middletown would continue the massive attack on the Century defenders with Ahalt getting in on the goal scoring action as the senior would pocket a ball in the back of the net off an assist from Grant Brandenburg, opening the Middletown lead to 3-0.

From that point not much was in doubt for Middletown as they had taken complete control of the game and would not let it go as they recorded their second clean sheet of the season.

Middletown junior Logan Doing would add a fourth goal in late in the game for good measure as the 75^th minute marker would give Doing his first goal of the season and would put a bow on the Middletown victory, in a game that they dominated from start to finish in all facets of the game.

It was the complete result that Middletown has gotten used to early in the season and if they had it their way the massive attack that is underway will continue for a long time.