There was no dust in the wind for the host St. Louis Park Orioles Tuesday night as they got two second half goals to shut out the East Ridge Raptors 2-0.
Neither team erased the zeros from the scoreboard in the first half. Both teams had scoring chances but none of the shots would enter the net. The Orioles freshman goalkeeper Luis Benitez Matias showed that the team has depth in the nets as Beau Finley, who started the last two games was on the sidelines. Matias made a couple of outstanding saves in the first half as he stopped shoots from Oscar Lagravere and Cullen Featherstone.
The Orioles would strike twice in the second half. Their first goal came when Andrew Kneiser's shot was saved by Raptor goalkeeper Nick Wagner. Claudy Kua positioned himself on the right side of the goal and he scored on a rebound. St. Louis Park would go up by two as Nick Riley's corner kick was headed into the net by Thomas Salamzadeh. East Ridge had some opportunities to cut the margin to one but the Orioles played superb defense, even preventing a goal while Matias was playing out of the net.
St. Louis Park improved their record to 3-0 and returns to action on Wednesday, August 28 at 5 PM, hosting the Armstrong Falcons. East Ridge fell to 1-2 and will be back in action on Thursday, August 29 as the host the Apple Valley Eagles at 4:30 PM.
Playing their first game since last Saturday's big 3-2 win over section rival Wayzata, Orioles head coach Chato mentioned the key to avenging last year's section defeat.
"We just played a good game and didn't give up until the end."
Bennett Kouame, who scored the game winning goal against the Trojans was praised by Chato as an important player. "He scored the goal and that was definitely great. Everybody played hard."
No comments:
Post a Comment