Winning After MidKnight
The
Middletown High School Knights Varsity Field Hockey team went into halftime of
their match against the Tuscarora High School Titans on Thursday September 15th
without either team having scored a goal during the first half and it wouldn’t
be an exaggeration to say that the Knights and the Titans were both starving
for goals.
On top of
that both teams were looking to breakthrough with their first meaningful goals
of the season as Middletown had not scored a goal yet over the first three
games they had played and Tuscarora had only scored one goal, with that coming
in the late seconds of an 8-1 loss to the Winters Mill High School Falcons.
In the end,
it would be the Knights who would quench their drought scoring two second half
goals in route to a 2-0 win over the Titans as Middletown registered their
first win of the season.
During the
first half, both teams seemed content to figure out what the other opponent was
doing as both teams played in the midfield for long stretches of the first half
with both teams moving the ball methodically up the field as the half moved
along.
Even though
the first half was played at a slower pace with less offense that didn’t mean
that both teams didn’t have the occasional chance to put a ball in the back of
the net and break the scoreless tie.
Both the
Titans and Knights would have penalty corners in the first half but neither
team would be able to convert as a grey, cloudy sky provided an accurate
reflection of how the pace of the game was played in the first half.
Unlike the
clouds in the sky, the clouds surrounding the game would lift in the second
half as both teams would readjust their strategy to a more offensive gameplan
as both the Knights and the Titans tried to pick up their first win of the
season in a game that was easily winnable.
Middletown
(1-3) would be the first team to capitalize on the new pace of play as with
about 20 minutes to play in the second half the Knights would poke a goal
across the Tuscarora goal, breaking the scoreless tie and giving the Knights
their first goal of the season, one which Middletown had been hunting after for
a while.
That wouldn’t
be it for the Knights as just 14 minutes later Middletown would score again and
bump the lead up to 2-0, one in which they would hold on for the remainder of
the contest.
For
Middletown, the contest was more important than they could have hoped for as the
Knights now have the ground level on which they hope to push the upward swing
of their season forward.
After
battling through the first three games against Carroll County opposition in
which the Knights played well but couldn’t get the results to show for it. Now
that the Frederick County portion of the schedule has come around for
Middletown, the Knights hope they will be able to take the momentum from those
early games and put into the rest of their schedule.
It was a big
win on a gloomy day for Middletown but the Knights are feeling anything but
gloomy after the win.
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