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Our one-eyed roving reporter speaks largely unsubstantiated and totally biased drivel yet again:- by Steve Morgan
Well, what a difference a week can make, eh?
The match kicked off late through BURP (the Bedford Urban Renewal Program) confusing the bejeezus out of the GPS controllers for our visitors from South of the border and DEA took the game to the understandably dazed and confused visitors for the first twenty minutes or so.
DEA set plays were particularly threatening, but a combination of scrambled defensive bodies or framework somehow kept the game scoreless until, against the run of play, the ever-combative Jeff Downing was just a tad over-enthusiastic and snappy in a challenge on an Alligator to the edge of Bedford's version of the Everglades. Oops!
The penalty was tidily taken and much of the remainder of the first half was a frustrating affair with Bedford showing poor touch and communication despite usually having both time and space available to exploit. To compound the home team's problems, sweeper Dave Crespo was forced to withdraw after feeling an unwelcome pulling sensation in his groinular regions. We've all been there - not always on a Sunday morning though - so get well soon, mate! ;-)
The first fifteen or so minutes of the second period were both literally and figuratively a continuation of the first half, but then DEA seemed to have a collective "Aha!" moment and a combination of stronger challenges and improved passing and movement gradually started to open up the opposition, providing we avoided the unsporting puddles.
Hard charging Scott Vaughan took a couple of early practice swings, but a third pass threaded between the Alligator's sweeper and left back offered sufficient goal for him to find the inside of the far side netting from the edge of Lowell's penalty area. The game was tied at one a piece with thirteen minutes to go: Game on!
The unexpected late start meant that John Speaker's young charges were arriving in droves for a following game and they soon noticed their valiant Assistant Coach hobbling around purposefully in his stopper role. DEA and John suddenly had a crowd to play for, and play for them they blooming well did.....
....With the roar of spectators and the smell of a possible victory in the air, the home side ratcheted up the pressure on Lowell and, with the clock running down, Joe Parrinello cleverly won a corner on the left wing. Joe sharply delivered a nicely weighted ball to the far post where, I swear, Assistant Coach Speaker must have been close to the level of the crossbar to thunder a bullet header into a welcoming net.
Cue a prepubescent screaming frenzy like you've never heard before. The kids were really quite noisy too. Yay coach!
The remaining three minutes seemed to be long enough to hard-boil an ostrich egg, but Doug Henion and relief sweeper John Morrin proved particularly strong under pressure to ensure DEA deservedly took their first points of the Fall season.
All the DEA players can be more than well pleased with their battling performances today and, dare I say it, maybe they've finally found their Fall mojo?
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
Thomas Edison
Well, what a difference a week can make, eh?
The match kicked off late through BURP (the Bedford Urban Renewal Program) confusing the bejeezus out of the GPS controllers for our visitors from South of the border and DEA took the game to the understandably dazed and confused visitors for the first twenty minutes or so.
DEA set plays were particularly threatening, but a combination of scrambled defensive bodies or framework somehow kept the game scoreless until, against the run of play, the ever-combative Jeff Downing was just a tad over-enthusiastic and snappy in a challenge on an Alligator to the edge of Bedford's version of the Everglades. Oops!
The penalty was tidily taken and much of the remainder of the first half was a frustrating affair with Bedford showing poor touch and communication despite usually having both time and space available to exploit. To compound the home team's problems, sweeper Dave Crespo was forced to withdraw after feeling an unwelcome pulling sensation in his groinular regions. We've all been there - not always on a Sunday morning though - so get well soon, mate! ;-)
The first fifteen or so minutes of the second period were both literally and figuratively a continuation of the first half, but then DEA seemed to have a collective "Aha!" moment and a combination of stronger challenges and improved passing and movement gradually started to open up the opposition, providing we avoided the unsporting puddles.
Hard charging Scott Vaughan took a couple of early practice swings, but a third pass threaded between the Alligator's sweeper and left back offered sufficient goal for him to find the inside of the far side netting from the edge of Lowell's penalty area. The game was tied at one a piece with thirteen minutes to go: Game on!
The unexpected late start meant that John Speaker's young charges were arriving in droves for a following game and they soon noticed their valiant Assistant Coach hobbling around purposefully in his stopper role. DEA and John suddenly had a crowd to play for, and play for them they blooming well did.....
....With the roar of spectators and the smell of a possible victory in the air, the home side ratcheted up the pressure on Lowell and, with the clock running down, Joe Parrinello cleverly won a corner on the left wing. Joe sharply delivered a nicely weighted ball to the far post where, I swear, Assistant Coach Speaker must have been close to the level of the crossbar to thunder a bullet header into a welcoming net.
Cue a prepubescent screaming frenzy like you've never heard before. The kids were really quite noisy too. Yay coach!
The remaining three minutes seemed to be long enough to hard-boil an ostrich egg, but Doug Henion and relief sweeper John Morrin proved particularly strong under pressure to ensure DEA deservedly took their first points of the Fall season.
All the DEA players can be more than well pleased with their battling performances today and, dare I say it, maybe they've finally found their Fall mojo?
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
Thomas Edison
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