Big Walnut scores early, stings Yellow Jackets 3-1 in boys soccer

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The Golden Eagles con­trolled this one from start to finish.

Big Wal­nut built an early 2–0 lead en route to a 3–1 Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal Divi­sion vic­tory over Mount Ver­non last Tues­day at Sunbury.

The Golden Eagles claimed an early 1–0 lead off an own goal fol­low­ing a cor­ner kick by sopho­more defender Noah Gib­son. Big Wal­nut (6–2-1, 1–2-1 OCC) con­tin­ued to press for the rest of the first half, out­shoot­ing the Yel­low Jack­ets 10–3 with Mount Ver­non senior goal­keeper Dan Baker record­ing 7 saves as the con­test reached the half.

The sec­ond half saw the phys­i­cal play increase with 16 total fouls (9 in the first half) called in the sec­ond half. Senior mid­fielder Shane Face­myer daz­zled the Yel­low Jack­ets with some nifty drib­bling to net his eighth goal of the sea­son after tak­ing a short pass from Austin Foor to give Big Wal­nut a 2–0 lead.

Fol­low­ing a skir­mish just inside BW penalty area, Yel­low Jacket senior for­ward Cameron McMa­hon walked to the top of the goal area uncon­tested for an easy score to trim the Golden Eagle lead in half at 2–1.

The Golden Eagles regained their two-goal lead 5 min­utes later as Gib­son sent a through-ball to senior for­ward Austin Foor took advan­tage of his quick­ness to out­race the Yel­low Jacket defense for an unas­sisted goal.

Big Wal­nut fin­ished with an 18–10 advan­tage in shots on goal. Both teams had 5 cor­ner kicks. Gib­son led the Golden Eagles with 2 assists. Foor was cred­ited with 1 assist. Tyler Sholl recorded 8 saves for Big Wal­nut, Baker made 12 in the Mount Ver­non goal.

PICKERINGTON CENTRAL 4, BIG WALNUT 2 — The Tigers tal­lied three opening-half goals and held on to send the Golden Eagles down to their third loss of the sea­son last Thurs­day (Sep­tem­ber 20) at Pickerington.

Cen­tral senior Der­rick Awauh, who led the Tigers with a goal and two assists, gave the hosts a 1–0 lead three min­utes into the con­test. Big Wal­nut (6–3-1) answered 90 sec­onds later to tie the game at 1–1 as senior for­ward Austin Foor found junior for­ward Luke Hart­ings at the top of the 6-yard box for the goal.

The Tigers closed out the open­ing half with a pair of goals as senior Dil­lon Rick­ets and senior Steven Bauers found the back of the net as Pick­er­ing­ton Cen­tal took a 3–1 lead into the break.

Big Wal­nut came back out and scored 7 min­utes into the sec­ond half as senior mid­fielder Shane Face­myer took a cor­ner kick from sopho­more defense­man Noah Gib­son and knocked it in with his back to cut the Tiger lead to 3–2.

Cen­tral closed out the Golden Eagles fol­low­ing a mis­played ball by Big Wal­nut was gath­ered in by Awauh who patiently held the ball before slip­ping the ball behind the defend­ers to a wide open Rick­etts who rolled the ball into the open net.

Big Wal­nut held a 14–12 advan­tage in shots on goal as well as a 4–3 edge in cor­ner kicks. Foor and Gib­son recorded assists for the Golden Eagles while senior Zach Schmauch joined Awauh with an assist for the Tigers. Junior Jamie Strick­ler recorded 3 saves in the Cen­tral goal while Sholl rejected 4 Pick­er­ing­ton shots on goal.

Posted by Gary Henery on Sep 26 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.