Post by saderpowernola on Feb 26, 2006 8:34:32 GMT -6
If you think the Lafayette stuff didnt matter you dont know much. Let me show you an article in the paper.
www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index.ssf?/base/sports-22/114094177364570.xml
Fontainebleau drops Jesuit
Focused Bulldogs earn historic victory
Sunday, February 26, 2006
By Billy Turner
Staff writer
Sometimes it comes down to focus.
Jesuit lost its focus, Fontainebleau didn't.
Thus, in a battle of second-chance teams, Fontainebleau defeated Jesuit 2-0 in the Division I state soccer semifinals Saturday at Pan American Stadium.
The Bulldogs (25-8-1), who won their quarterfinal match on penalty kicks, advance to the first boys team state championship game in school history. They will play Carencro at 7 p.m. Saturday at Louisiana-Lafayette. The championship match was moved from Tad Gormley Stadium because of Hurricane Katrina.
Jesuit's unbeaten streak ended at 49 matches. Of course, it had ended earlier this week in a 2-1 loss to Lafayette. But Lafayette had to forfeit the victory because of an LHSAA violation, and Jesuit came into Saturday's match with the Bulldogs 16-0-1 and still defending its 2005 title.
Fontainebleau almost didn't make it to the semifinal match. The Bulldogs trailed Captain Shreve 2-1 with less than 20 seconds remaining Tuesday until it got a goal and unexpected life, then won on penalty kicks. Fontainebleau goalkeeper Taylor Hovis, who blocked shot after Jesuit shot, saw it not as a second chance, but "taking advantage of your first chance."
In any case, the Bulldogs did what they had to do to advance, something Coach Budd Ditchendorf said has become commonplace with this team.
"I'm numb," Ditchendorf said. "I just didn't think this was going to happen. We know we're going to play our best. We don't daydream about the score."
Jesuit, on the other hand, struggled early. "I think it was very difficult for us to get refocused after what we've been through this week," said Jesuit coach Hubie Collins. "Players had gone through the loss and thinking they were done for the season. We were just off our game."
Fontainebleau was aggressive on offense early, when the Bulldogs usually go through a feeling-out period of sorts during matches. It paid off when just five minutes into the match Matt Chugden headed a ball into the left corner for a 1-0 lead.
From there it was defense, taking away every chance the Blue Jays came up with in their spacing game, then turning it over to Hovis for the save much of the time.
Hovis took a kick to the chin in the second half, but he played on despite the injury.
In the second half, Jesuit had five shots on goal that were either missed or saved by Hovis before Fontainebleau -- concerned about defense and the lead -- took a shot. But it was a shot that made the difference.
In the 58th minute, "their goalie didn't see me because they had a taller defensive guy in front," said Fontainebleau senior forward Brett Kloor. "I yelled, 'Brooks (Hickman),' and he got the ball to me. I came away with something that meant a whole lot to me and a whole lot to the team."
From there, Fontainebleau cruised. "I felt we were in control the whole game because as we kept playing, they kept getting more and more mad. And the madder they got, the worse they played," Kloor said.
www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index.ssf?/base/sports-22/114094177364570.xml
Fontainebleau drops Jesuit
Focused Bulldogs earn historic victory
Sunday, February 26, 2006
By Billy Turner
Staff writer
Sometimes it comes down to focus.
Jesuit lost its focus, Fontainebleau didn't.
Thus, in a battle of second-chance teams, Fontainebleau defeated Jesuit 2-0 in the Division I state soccer semifinals Saturday at Pan American Stadium.
The Bulldogs (25-8-1), who won their quarterfinal match on penalty kicks, advance to the first boys team state championship game in school history. They will play Carencro at 7 p.m. Saturday at Louisiana-Lafayette. The championship match was moved from Tad Gormley Stadium because of Hurricane Katrina.
Jesuit's unbeaten streak ended at 49 matches. Of course, it had ended earlier this week in a 2-1 loss to Lafayette. But Lafayette had to forfeit the victory because of an LHSAA violation, and Jesuit came into Saturday's match with the Bulldogs 16-0-1 and still defending its 2005 title.
Fontainebleau almost didn't make it to the semifinal match. The Bulldogs trailed Captain Shreve 2-1 with less than 20 seconds remaining Tuesday until it got a goal and unexpected life, then won on penalty kicks. Fontainebleau goalkeeper Taylor Hovis, who blocked shot after Jesuit shot, saw it not as a second chance, but "taking advantage of your first chance."
In any case, the Bulldogs did what they had to do to advance, something Coach Budd Ditchendorf said has become commonplace with this team.
"I'm numb," Ditchendorf said. "I just didn't think this was going to happen. We know we're going to play our best. We don't daydream about the score."
Jesuit, on the other hand, struggled early. "I think it was very difficult for us to get refocused after what we've been through this week," said Jesuit coach Hubie Collins. "Players had gone through the loss and thinking they were done for the season. We were just off our game."
Fontainebleau was aggressive on offense early, when the Bulldogs usually go through a feeling-out period of sorts during matches. It paid off when just five minutes into the match Matt Chugden headed a ball into the left corner for a 1-0 lead.
From there it was defense, taking away every chance the Blue Jays came up with in their spacing game, then turning it over to Hovis for the save much of the time.
Hovis took a kick to the chin in the second half, but he played on despite the injury.
In the second half, Jesuit had five shots on goal that were either missed or saved by Hovis before Fontainebleau -- concerned about defense and the lead -- took a shot. But it was a shot that made the difference.
In the 58th minute, "their goalie didn't see me because they had a taller defensive guy in front," said Fontainebleau senior forward Brett Kloor. "I yelled, 'Brooks (Hickman),' and he got the ball to me. I came away with something that meant a whole lot to me and a whole lot to the team."
From there, Fontainebleau cruised. "I felt we were in control the whole game because as we kept playing, they kept getting more and more mad. And the madder they got, the worse they played," Kloor said.
