St. Thomas Aquinas Boys Soccer 2010 Trinity Game Summary

The Saints traveled to Derryfield park in Manchester for the first time to play Trinity High School.

Trinity High School is a new team to Division 2 so this was the first time these two teams had met.

The Pioneers had a definite home field advantage playing on the field at Derryfield park.
The players had to watch out for the ridge where the softball infield cut into the pitch.
Trinity used this area well in their first half defense.

The Saints started with Jeff King and Jon Nartiff as strikers. Mike Fort, Ed Conroy, Jon DiPietro and Dan Perreault in the midfield. Seldon Cook in net, David Ham, Mike Kubiczki, TJ Tetreault, and Noah Schwaegerle on defense.

Saint Thomas worked well to control the ball, while the Trinity defenders kept numbers back and sent long balls to their two forwards at every opportunity. This quickly tested the Saints defense and made Cook play out more to scoop up the long balls. Jon DeWolf, Jon Kisinis and Peter Roginski all saw time helping out on defense under the quick counters. Connor Bailey and Andrew Civiello also had to take turns dealing with the softball infield as outside midfielders. The Saints had a number of scoring chances in the first half, but the Pioneer keeper made a number of diving outstretched saves that kept the game tied. The Trinity defense was marking Nartif and Conroy every time they came into the offensive third.

Saint Thomas came out in the second half having to attack on the uphill. The Saints were more determined to capitalize on offense. Conroy was rotated between midfield and striker to keep the Pioneer defenders off guard. Fort took a 20 yard shot about 5 minutes in that just missed the top far corner and had the bench on their feet. Conroy took the next attempt as he was nearing the 18 yard line he was taken down from behind. Their was no call and he was cautioned by the referee for voicing his displeasure.
At the 58 minute mark King sent a great pass to Fort who quickly turned and fired it into the far side of the net to put the Saints on the board.

St Thomas had an advantage in possession, but Trinity quickly countered with long deadly attack runs every time they got a chance.

Now that they were one goal up, the Saints began to play with more controlled passing.
DiPietro took a shot from the wing that pinged the cross bar. Perreault sent a chip shot into the box that caused a scramble in front of the Trinity net. Kiskinis headed a corner kick just over the bar. Conroy ripped a shot that the Pioneer keeper made a spectacular save on.

At the 76 minute mark King found Fort again in front and the two combined for the second tally of the day.

The Referee signaled one minute left in the game and it seemed to take 10 as Trinity was allowed two corner kicks.

Seldon Cook had 8 saves to earn his fifth shut out in a row. Cook even saved a header from a last second corner kick by trinity that came off his own teammates head preventing an own goal.

St. Thomas hosts Dover in a cross-town cross-division match up on Tuesday. The Saints are 2-0 against Dover so far in this recent rivalry.

MANCHESTER — Mike Fort knocked in both goals in the second half for St. Thomas, which improved to 7-1 in Division II, moving from Seventh to Fifth Place in the process.

Seldon Cook made eight saves to lead the Saints to their fifth shutout in a row. Noah Schwaegerle played great defense for St. Thomas to help preserve the shutout.

BOYS SOCCER

St. Thomas 2, Trinity 0

MANCHESTER — Mike Fort scored both goals to help lift the St. Thomas Aquinas boys soccer team to its sixth straight win Friday, a 2-0 Division II decision at Trinity.

The Saints (7-1) have won their last five games by shutout. Seldon Cook had eight saves and Jeff King assisted on both goals. Jon DeWolf played a strong defensive game.

STA hosts Dover Tuesday. Trinity is 3-5-1.

Coe-Brown 1, Kennett 0

NORTH CONWAY — The Coe-Brown boys soccer team won its second straight Division II game, blanking Kennett, 1-0.

The Bears (5-4) received their goal from Kenny Bell and Blake Heyn assisted on the play. Kyle Estell made four saves in goal in place of starter Jacob Carr is now out for the season with a broken scapula which he suffered in Tuesday's win at Pembroke.

Coe-Brown hosts Souhegan Tuesday.

Oyster River 5, Manchester West 0

DURHAM — Jake Baver scored two goals to lead the Oyster River boys soccer team to a 5-0 win over Manchester West on Friday in Division II action.

OR (4-4) also received goals from Tom Gehling (assist), Alex Johnson (assist) and Alex Hennessy. Adam Goodwin and Asher Booz shared goalie duties.