Big Walnut shuts out Hartley 5-0 in boys soccer action

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Big Wal­nut, led by senior for­ward Austin Foor with two goals and one assist, erupted for five second-half goals to turn a score­less open­ing half into a 5–0 vic­tory over non-league rival Bishop Hart­ley Sat­ur­day night in Coumbus.

After an evenly-played open­ing half, Big Wal­nut (5–2-1) looked to the “long ball” to take con­trol of the con­test mid­way through the sec­ond half. Senior defense­man Bra­dyn Drons­field sent a long ball to sopho­more mid­fielder Adam Car­ifa, who got behind the defense to fin­ish the play for a 1–0 Golden Eagle lead 16 min­utes in the period. Three min­utes later, senior mid­fielder Shane Face­myer deftly drib­bled past sev­eral Hart­ley defend­ers for an unas­sisted goal for a 2–0 Golden Eagle advantage.

That was when Foor took over to score back-to-back break-away goals on a pair of long balls from sopho­more mid­fielder Bobby Bogantz to make it 3–0 and the sec­ond from junior defense­man Dominic Zumpone to open up a four-goal advantage.

Zumpone and Foor hooked up for Big Walnut’s fifth and final goal with Zumpone tak­ing a pass from Foor and curl­ing a beau­ti­fully struck ball with the out­side of his left foot from 20 yards out into the right upper-corner of the net.

Drons­field, Bogantz, Zumpone and Foor each recorded an assist in the victory.

Big Wal­nut fin­ished with a 16–6 advan­tage in shots on goal to go with a 4–1 edge in cor­ner kicks. Golden Eagle junior goal­keeper Tyler Sholl recorded 4 saves for the shutout.

WATKINS MEMORIAL 2, BIG WALNUT 1 — The War­riors, who were out­shot 12–3 in the sec­ond half by the Golden Eagles, scored with 55 sec­onds left in the game to escape with Tuesday’s Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal Divi­sion vic­tory Tues­day night in Pataskala.

Fol­low­ing a score­less open­ing half, Big Wal­nut (4–2-1, 0–2-1) took a 1–0 lead on senior mid­fielder Shane Facemyer’s hard-earned goal. Dis­play­ing a great indi­vid­ual drib­bling dis­play, Face­myer broke through the Watkins Memo­r­ial defense and drove a right-footed shot into the far cor­ner of the net from 15 yards for the lead.

Lit­tle went right for the Golden Eagles the rest of the night. Less than a minute later, a ques­tion­able call on Big Wal­nut for a han­dling call awarded the War­riors a penalty kick which was con­verted by senior defense­man Caleb Clark to knot the game at 1–1.

The Golden Eagle attack did not back off as Big Wal­nut pressed for the go-ahead goal, out-shooting Watkins Memo­r­ial 12–3 in the sec­ond half, gain­ing four cor­ners to none for the Pio­neers, but could not finish.

With 55 sec­onds remain­ing, Watkins Memo­r­ial sent a cross towards the top of the defense. With Golden Eagles and War­riors vying for con­trol, the ball squirted loose to Watkins’ junior for­ward Pat Mur­phy who drilled a hard, low shot from the 18 for the game win­ning goal,

Big Wal­nut fin­ished the night with a three-to-1, 21–7 shots-on-goal advan­tage as well as a 7–2 edge in cor­ner kicks. Junior Tyler Sholl recorded 2 stops in the Golden Eagle goal. Sopho­more goal­keeper Alec Mathew made 11 saves in the War­rior net.

Posted by Gary Henery on Sep 21 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.