Hounds soccer gets first win under its belt
By PHIL COBB Publisher
Maryville junior Chance Hermelink looks for an opening in the Savannah defense as he moves the ball upfield. Hermelink scored two of Maryville’s three goals, as they won their first game of the season.
The Maryville boys’ soccer team got its first win of the season in its first contest, blanking the Savannah Savages, 3-0, at Donaldson-Westside park in Maryville on Friday afternoon.
Although the host Spoofhounds controlled the ball for much of the time, the two Midland Empire Conference teams played to an even score throughout the first 24 minutes of play.
Then, in the 25th minute, junior Zach Staples got the Hounds on the board for the first time this season.
“It’s almost like, ‘we’ve done all this, but we haven’t got a goal in, so what’s up?,’ but after that then we picked it right back up, and played good ball,” Maryville Head Coach Stuart Collins said. “We controlled quite a bit of the game.”
The score stood at 1-0 in favor of the home team going into half-time.
Then, immediately after the half, junior Chance Hermelink, who had had multiple chances in the first half, took an assist from sophomore Thomas DiStefano to make the score 2-0.
“We’ve got to be able to do the passing we did in the second half the whole game,” Collins said. “Finishing could be better. We had 17 shots on goal and only three of them went in.”
The score remained 2-0 throughout most of the half, although the Spoofhounds controlled the ball on the Savannah side of the field for most of the final period.
Savannah’s only threat came in the 56th minute when Maryville sophomore goalie Mason Walk knocked down one of the Savage’s few shots-on-goal.
“Just manning up and making sure we didn’t give anybody a free shot,” Collins said as he described his team’s second-half defense.
Hermelink struck again in the 79th minute to finish out the scoring at 3-0.
Next up for the Hounds is the Barstow Tournament, beginning Tuesday, in which they will face Kansas City Lutheran at 4 p.m.
By PHIL COBB Publisher
Maryville junior Lucas Jasinski turns the ball toward the middle during the second half of the Spoofhounds’ 3-0 win over Savannah on Friday to start the 2016 season.
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Maryville freshman Jaden Hayes communicates with junior Lucas Jasinski during the second half of the Spoofhounds’ 3-0 win over the Savannah Savages on Friday.
