DEA Bedford Masters 2

Stan is still the man. With more goals that off sides Stan starts DEA 0-40 off with the first win of the season. The 8:30 early am game started with frigid temperatures of 35 degrees. Team DEA played like they were still frozen, trying to make the transition from indoor to outdoor. First goal came from a nice cross in front of the goal by John Valickus, after a couple of defensive bobbles Stan was right there to put it away. Windham countered back a short time after by beating our defense and putting it by net master Jim Goddard (who by the way was fashionably late for the game). He did look great in his new goalie shirt though. With some back and forth play, DEA got an indirect kick in the goal area, George quickly reacts to the play hitting a short pass to Jim McCall putting a shot in the left corner while the defenders were still setting up a goal line wall on the right side. Once again Windham counters with a cheap goal from a shot that deflected off of three people before trickling into the goal. Bedford changed up the format from 4-3-3 to 4-4-2 based on some half time discussion from key defender Mitch Green. The team got into much more of a rhythm and started to take control of the game. DEA once again placed high pressure on the Windham goalie with a bad kick coming off a defender into the waiting attack of Stan Wisniewski, who once again knocks one home for his second goal. Windham having very few opportunities the second half got a quick goal to tie the game up once again. Bedford finally took the lead for good on a cross from Jim McCall into the goal area, picking up where he left off last season was most "offensive" defender Ray Luscinski picking up the free ball, and with that big kick rockets one into the back of the net. It was a rough start for the Defending champs but in the end they got the job done by getting the "W". A few more games and they should be well on the way to defending the title in pursuit of winning another division and moving up to D5 in the fall. DEA 4 - Windham 3 Other News: Uniforms are great, but we need to talk fashion do's and don'ts with the match up of Blue/White shorts to Blue/Yellow shirts. But we are still happy to new uniforms, not to complain.