Dominican Game Report

As usual, a great game report written by Paul Neumann.
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I have avoided writing this for a couple of days as the 25 parents and assorted fans got a reminder of how soccer can sometimes be the most frustrating of sports on Friday night. We had multiple chances to win the game but ended up with a tie, instead to a chippy (borderline dirty) team that the refs never got under control.

The WUSTL website did a much better job than usual writing up the game (link), so I will let you read that for the game report with a few highlights thrown in as follows;

-with it being parents weekend we were well represented with parents from 11 states and Cindy Clarke back in the stands after the maternal visit to her sons in LA. We got to see the Grandins for the first time this season and meet the Kanoffs and David Klein's mom, Rita Corwin, and Kim Duncan for the first time.

-I would have given Hengel an assist on Patrick's second goal because I thought he had controlled it after the rebound and dropped it off to Pat for the shot from the 18, but the official scorer had it differently.

-John Hengel's goal came against the run of play as Dominican had controlled most of the first fifteen minutes of the second half, and was a great effort by a newly shorn player (apparently not suffering from a Sampson complex) to beat his defender to the ball, dribble into the box, and spin at twelve yards and beat the goalie with a left footed shot to the right post.

-WUSTL had at least three good chances to score to push our lead to 4-1 in a 10 minute stretch, but we were beat by the post on Marshall's free kick thru the wall, a good save by the goalie off a flick on from about 6 feet, and Pierre going wide on Nick Karr's corner. We then allowed a goal on a header that looked like it was going wide and caught the inside of the far post. Dominican earned their third goal.

-WUSTL had the better chances in OT with the ball in the box a couple of times- once when Nat turned the corner but played the ball a little too far ahead and the second when Alex came up on a corner and had the ball at the side of the box with his back to the goal and was fouled but we got no call

-Good fan support from the students at the game with WUSTL FC chants and spelling out WUSTL (kind of like the Village people) so the cheering section is finding its voice anew

As I said a frustrating game. WUSTL gets its chance to get back on the winning track against Maryville tomorrow night and then travels to Rochester on Thursday for a Friday night game.

The Zenner's, Mike Hendrickson and Zach's grandfather and Onyi will be in Rochester and they and three Neumann's, two Schoens, Rose Beddo, and Bruce Brege will be joining the team for dinner at the Plow's in Cleveland and to cheer the Bears on to victory at Case on Sunday. Anybody else planning to be in attendance?

We will look forward to Jeff's twittering (link) tomorrow night. Hopefully one of the St Louis parents might give us a little more game insight.

good luck tomorrow.

Go Bears- Allez Ours

paul
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NOTE: Photos to come. As I write this, the video is being processed by vimeo and has a couple hours left. I will embed the video on Monday some time, until then you can find it on vimeo.com/pomranka (link)