Monday Morning Report: May10

By Luis Campillo

The wind blew in both directions for AC DC this weekend… This past beautiful yet windy Saturday afternoon, the men’s team was back at Bishop McNamara HS. For the first minutes of the game our team did a descent job at distributing the ball but did not create many offensive opportunities on the attacking third. While the defense held its own, a strange “ball over the shoulder” turn allowed the opposing attacker to get a decent shot off that sneaked past the juggernaut keeper. Despite the goal, the team maintained its composure. In the second half, with the wind on our sails, AC DC made a number of runs at goal. The equalizer came via a deep ball from Lasershot Lominska to Speedy Mumbs who raced past the last defender to float the ball over the keeper. While the momentum of the game changed with our goal, Paul’s knee injury and the lack of subs took its toll on the team; an error in the back led to their second goal…the third goal came on a breakaway towards the end of the game when we were pushing up to even the score.

On Sunday, under similar condition the Co-Ed team took to the field at Dunbar HS against OpNet. Both teams started the game with 10 players as both were missing a female player. But even before our fashionably late Morgan jumped into the field, AC DC dominated much of the passing thanks to Krissy and Imi in the midfield, and with the full eleven we created a number of clear opportunities on goal. Nonetheless, it was a tied affair by the end of the first half and a controversial handball by one of their defenders that prevented Opus from taking a shot of a beautiful crossed ball by Matt W. In the second half, with the wind on our face and a couple of injuries already plaguing the team, we continued the runs at goal. One of these dashes by the injured juggernaut midfielder resulted in a corner kick that led to a powerful header by Justin that was slowed by the keeper but put in the ol’ onion bag by yours truly---sweet! The second goal came in a nicely coordinate breakaway by Imi and Justin. Kudos to Anna for being her usual solid self in goal and to the defense that repelled the many attempts by our opponent to score towards the end of the game…particularly with four injured players on the field and no subs.

This weekend demonstrated that despite the difficult playing conditions and personnel issues, AC DC is still a contender. The rest of the season will not be smooth sailing and we need to continue on a winning course to avoid decession (Men’s) and have a shot at the postseason (Co-Ed). If we play for each other and remain determined, we will reach both of these objectives.