FREMONT – Scoring isn’t supposed to happen so fast in soccer.
The Fremont Ross and Clyde boys soccer teams combined for five goals in the first 10 minutes of their match Saturday afternoon. Once the game settled down, the Little Giants’ constant offensive pressure was more than enough to prevail as Ross cruised to a 6-1 victory.
“It was a weird game,” Ross coach Alex Coressel said.
It may have been weird, but it worked out just fine for the Little Giants.
Ross opened the scoring 99 seconds into the game with a goal by Isaac Minor. Clyde, however, answered with a goal of its own barely a minute later.
Ross senior Dylan Brady then scored three goals in an eight-minute span to lift Ross to a 4-1 lead, where the game remained until halftime.
Though Ross took an early, commanding lead, Coressel said his team played a tighter game in the second half.
“We kind of got too complacent and too happy with what we had done,” Coressel said of Ross’ first half. “We wanted to play the fancier pass or make the better dribble. We got a little more in the mode of ‘All right, I’m going to score one too.’
“In the second half we moved the ball extremely well,” he continued. “We only put two in but were firing at the net on a regular basis. Their keeper was busy the entire time and there were times our defense didn’t touch the ball for eight to 10 minutes.”
Brady scored his fourth goal of the game in the second half and Alex Slemmer added another.
Brady’s four-goal performance puts him at 31 for the season and over 60 for his career, both marks, Coressel said are all-but assured to be program records.
“There were two he scored tonight off of headers, one off a crosser and the other on a corner kick,” Coressel said of Brady. “He’s getting his way to the ball, getting a head on it and he has great control when he’s in the air. He’s very elusive when he’s dribbling and he has a great touch with the ball, so he’s able to finish pretty much from anywhere on the field.”
Carter Durbin had a pair of assists while Slemmer, Minor and Tim Mosser each had one.
Ross is now 8-5 on the season and Saturday’s match marked the Little Giants’ final home game of the season. While Ross has three games next week, at St. Francis, Oak Harbor and Sandusky, the looming prospect of saying goodbye to his seniors is one Coressel is dreading.
“We still have three games left but it’s their last one at home, it’s definitely bittersweet,” Coressel said. “Especially this being the first group that I’ve coached here that I’ve seen through here all four years.”