Goose Eggs for Each After 80 Minutes

After 80 minutes of battling it out in midfield and stalling attacks at the edges of the penalty boxes, Glencoe and Sherword stepped off the field bruised and worn, but without any goals to show for their efforts. The visiting Tide defense was tested often as Sherwood, comfortable playing on their home artificial turf, attacked quickly from midfield, often using long balls that kept the Glencoe back line on edge.

Both teams had opportunities to claim the lead, but both keepers were only seriously challenged a couple of times. It looked as if Sherwood had seized the lead inside ten minutes to play in the match after Noe Escalera was injured on a foul on the touchline deep in Glencoe's defensive third and Sherwood worked the ball on top of the box and beat Tide keeper Lawrence Chel with a looping shot on the left side of goal. The goal was pulled back by the referee after he realized that, according to high school rules, he was required to stop play immediately when Escalera went down with injury. A bit of a break for Glencoe as the call kept the match at a 0-0 draw.


Jorge Alvarez breaks through the Sherwood midfield to bring the ball into attack.


Dylan Costigan heads the ball to send the Tide attack back into the Sherwood half.


Juan Carlos Hernandez works the ball up the left side of midfield during the second half.


Momtchil Tritchkov cuts in front of Sherwood's Jason Castaneda to win possession.


Christian Briceno passes the ball forward before Sherwood's Bobby Govig can get in the challenge.