Fontainebleau-Mandeville results

[Timbertwin]

The first district tiebreaker is head-to-head, which is irrelevant in this case since the two teams split. The next tiebreaker is goal differential in the meetings between the two teams. With Mandeville's 3-1 win in December and FHS's 1-0 double overtime win on Friday, MHS owns a +1 goal differential to break the tie for playoff seeding. Assuming both teams win out their remaining three games, that is how it would break down.

Goals allowed in district games against all teams would come into play next, but that also goes in favor of MHS having allowed 2 goals in district play while FHS has allowed 4.

[Timbertwin]

I will do so, although I generally prefer not to. I believe it was a fine match by a pair of teams with the potential to make a deep run in the Division I playoffs this season.

I believe the first half was a fairly even half with neither team really having many quality shots on goal, although FHS definitely had many more penetrations into the attacking third. Most of the soccer was played in the middle third of the field with the defenses definitely winning out.

Second half FHS had one serious quality shot that deflected off the post and another two or three that were saved by the MHS keeper. Several other attacking runs were also made that just didn't quite connect. MHS also generated more options in the 2nd half, with a couple of serious cornerkick threats and two shots that were saved by the fingertips of FHS goalie Jean Bernard, who came up big for the Bulldogs in the 2nd half as she always seems to. Also missing from the previous summary was the injury to Hannah Macormic from Mandeville off an FHS foul in the 2nd half. When she was out of action, MHS took a hit both offensively and defensively. She was able to return, but was clearly not the same as before the injury. FHS also had a couple of players leave the game and return due to injury -- I believe both Wendy Redpath and Sydney Robbins had to leave the game, but both returned and did not appear to be adversely affected. Hopefully all will heal soon.

Overtimes were generally even as both teams seemed a little spent as far as effort goes. Actually, after the FHS goal (with just 3 minutes left in the 2nd overtime), MHS was awarded a pair of free kicks (somewhat dubiously, I might add) that resulted in a couple more shots on goal late in the 2nd overtime.

Overall impression would be that both teams brought quality, stingy defenses to the game and denied repeated attempts by a pair of talented offenses to generate consistent attacks. There was definitely no arguing the effort on either side. The late goal in the 2nd overtime by FHS was a quality cross and a finish that was placed exactly where it needed to be outside the reach of the diving MHS keeper.

Bravo to FHS for scoring when it counted and to both teams for a quality display of soccer.