scores from 12-19-04 to 12-26-04

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parkway--3

southwood--2

[blindmouse1]

ST. Louis 4 WCA 2

From my source, WCA is playing with 5 starters out. Mainly playing with Freshmen and Sophmores.

St. Louis is young.

[panther]

Woodlawn-4
Newman-2

[playa44]

Teurlings beat Opelousas Catholic 2-1

[Shocka]

Dutchtown-1
St. Amant -2

[PutMeInCoach2]

huge victory for St. Amant

[Shocka]

D-town im a huge fan but that game had so many mistakes yet controlled the ball most of the game and decimated the defense many times just to come up empty handed and then they could not for the love of all things holy pass the balll worth a S$%T and i could not believe the number of missed passes and shots that accumulated during that game. And one quick question for the coach ( Why were some of the starting forwards and midfield playing defense tonight )

[ostrya]

Baton Rouge 4 McKinley 0
Kind of a weird call at the end to give the 4th goal

[flat3]

University 4 - 1 Parkview

University 8 - 0 Catholic Pointe Coupee
University was up 3-0 7 minutes into the game. They started to pass around in the backfield. Occasional attacks still netted 3 more goals in the half. They replaced ALL of the 11 players in the second half, and scored 2 more.

[flat3]

Wow, Woodlawn beat Newman, St. Amant beat D-Town, and Teurlings beat OC? St. Amant is coming strong, and DIII will see some changes in rankings.

[coachray40]

St Amant/Dutchtown game lived up to the hype--both teams played well early on, with St Amant coming out very strong and putting early pressure on Dutchtown. St Amant opened the scoring by capitalizing on a misplay by the D-town sweeper for a Tyler Melancon goal at the 10 minute mark. St Amant scored again at 25 minutes on a Sebastian Torrado PK to go up 2-0, and the game stayed that way till half time. First half was well played and even up, with both teams missing chances. Second half saw Dutchtown start strong and push for a goal to get back in the game. St Amant defense played very well, keeping the ball moving up field. As the second half wore on Dutchtown continued to gain momentum, and St Amant laid back, content to get numbers on defense and play for long counters. Counters were effective, as St Amant was able to relieve the pressure on defense and generate some attack with 2 forwards running up top. Dutchtown had more of the run of the play in the second half, and St Amant bunkered up for the last 20 minutes and protected the 2 goal lead. Dutchtown goal came off a weird play-- St Amant Goalkeeper held the ball too long and was called for a 6-second violation with 2 minutes to play. Dutchtown was awarded an indirect, and St Amant Goalkeeper was yellow carded and had to come off. Freshman back up was put in. D-town free kick hit off the wall and got kicked in during the ensuing scrum. Dutchtown had 2 excellent chances after that in injury time, but missed on one, and St Amant keeper came up big on the other.

Note about the keepers--both keepers played outstanding tonight. In general, I think the level of goalkeeping in Metro BTR has been low, except for these two keepers--Alex Chapman for Dutchtown, and Jake Savoy for St Amant. Both GK's made huge saves tonight for their teams.

Was a great game played by 2 good teams--was a pleasure to watch for the big crowd of fans than showed up. Was a tremendously clean game too, with only 2 yellow cards. Anybody who is a Dutchtown hater should get real--they are an excellent team, and they play well. They deserve the cred they get, and they will contend for the D2 crown. St Amant is also strong (6-0-1, 5-0 district), and this win will hopefully gain them the statewide props they deserve.

Both teams are in action in the BTR City Tournament next week. Many folks have been calling the City Championship a weak tournament. Brother Martin(#5-D1) Dutchtown(#4 D2) Bishop Sullivan(#8 D2), University(#6 D3) Episcopal(#10 D3) and St Amant (unranked, but gaining steam) are all in this tournament. Should be a pretty good tournament.

[PutMeInCoach2]

I do agree its a huge win for the St. Amant team... However, I don't think it will get them into the top 10... They are still lacking that quality win against a DI oppenant... They now shown they can hang with dutchtown, which moves them up... I just don't think it will be enough to move them into the top 10

[griffindad]

Shocka...since you asked about the defensive situation on Dutchtown.

The starting sweeper is being rested for a groin strain and the coach decided to put a freshmen in to put pressure on those in front of him to do their job.

The team found out an hour before the game that they would not have another starting defender (left back) for a back strain. (2 defenders out tonight)

2 of the guys that are sophomores that would normally step up in this situation were on "probation" for missing a JV practice so Coach had to use the Freshman and move some other guys around (out of position) to try to find something that would work. It bit them early with the mistakes. St. Amant did what they had to do to take advantage of the mistakes. Credit STA..you have to take advantage of the other teams' weaknesses and they did.

My guess is that Dutchtown outshot St. Amant 2-1 in the first half and 3-1 in the second half and just didn't finish. The more shots in the second half could have been due to a different strategy as CoachRay said, but Dutchtown did have more chances and must take advantage of those. Dutchtown seemed to possess the ball better whereas STA would rely on the keeper's long punt or long balls behind the defense.

As far as the keepers go...Chapman is one of the best in the area...but tonight he probably had to make 3 legitimate saves...he operates by cutting things off before shots are taken....Savoy did a good job as well for STA he definitely made some saves tonight.

I know the boys at Dutchtown will look forward to a rematch in the City Tournament if both teams do what needs to be done to advance. Dutchtown will have to defeat Brother Martin to advance however...due to some strange pools being formed. The rematch would definitely be interesting especially with Dutchtown back to full strength.

Congrats to STA for taking care of business...

Let's all pray for the rematch

[rocksccrstar]

CoachRay,

I took the "long drive" down to The Pit to watch a great game. And I must say that STA goalie is AWESOME!! He made some excellent stops, especially in the last two minutes, and he just got caught on the stalling thing (all goalies do it). DHS played 80 minutes of intense soccer and they pounded away but he kept his cool! Good job!

[freddyyakubu]

griffindad said:

Shocka...since you asked about the defensive situation on Dutchtown.

The starting sweeper is being rested for a groin strain and the coach decided to put a freshmen in to put pressure on those in front of him to do their job.

I understand that D-Town had defenders out injured, and some others on 'probation'. However, I dont quite see why it was said that the coach "had to use the freshmen". Plus the only one with the pressure was the new sweeper, not all the other players.

Dutchtown have obviously got good players, due to the level of their performances this season, including a 1-0 win against Ben Franklin.

My point is that teams need to be built up from the back, especially high school teams. They need to be due to the fact that (quote) "you have to take advantage of the other teams' weaknesses and they did".

Surely if Dutchtown had placed some of their experienced players at the back, instead of the inexperienced freshmen, they would not have let in two goals.

Having said that, it is not an 'obvious' fact, to state that Dutchtown's attacks would have suffered. They only scored one anyway.

For the coaches at Dutchtown, is the experience and lessons gained by the freshmen worth the loss? If not, then thats honest. If so, then i guess we'll be seeing that defense again some time in the season.

[griffindad]

Freddyyakubu,

At Dutchtown I don't think they are concerned with winning every game, especially non-district out of division games. Knowing the coach he approaches EVERY game as an experience and schedules tough opponents with the hope that the team will learn something from each game whether loss or win. Their goals are HIGH...and really feel if they work hard enough they can challenge for a state title. Each game is approached with a goal in mind.

I'm not sure I said "we had to use a freshman". I think I said the "coach decided to put a freshman there". Obviously the freshman would have pressure on him and take something from the game as experience. And if you ask him he can tell you exactly what it is now (don't step to the side of a ball to volley it when you can head it because talented forwards will run through the ball). The coach also could have let the sophomores play and established a poor precedent and improved his defense, but he decided to the lessons were more important.
Now as far as playing a freshman only puts pressure on him...that's not entirely true. Knowing that the defense behind you has two inexperienced defenders puts the pressure on you as a MF and Forward to pressure the ball in all parts of the field to keep the pressure off the defenders. They have been concentrating on creating intensity and pressure on the ball in all thirds of the field. Dutchtown did not do this the first few minutes but adjusted as the game went on. That lack of pressure early created a few opportunities for St. Amant to attack the defense. Thus another lesson learned that should serve them well.
Every team would want to win every game and of course Dutchtown didn't set out to lose this one, especially against a rival, but keeping most of the lineup the same and using other people on defense gave them an opportunity to work towards a team goal UNDER PRESSURE to have to do so against a rival. So it’s not about the experience gained by the freshman but the team as a whole.
Not sure what you meant by the comment about attacks suffering. I don’t think I mentioned anything about that in the original post. I don't think the attack suffered. Dutchtown attacked well all game, they obviously did not finish well. Two things entirely different. The shots taken were approaching 3-1 Dutchtown.

[bounty1974]

Westgate 2
Terrebone 0

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parkway--3

bolton--3

[ostrya]

BRMHS 0 Rummel 2