Braveheart Soccer......Historical Records

In an early season big game the Central Catholic Raiders defeated the Lowell High School Red Raiders 2-1 on two goals by Steve Perry. Lowell High School , who came into this game undefeated with a 4-0-2 record overall and 2-0-1 in MVC action, was in the hole early as Central scored in the first thirty seconds only to have it called back for offsides. Central rebounded with its first goal on a beautiful bit of team play to go up 1-0 in the 7th minute. Tim Woitkun threw the ball in to Jeff Gannon who flicked it on to Perry's foot for the goal. Lowell scored the tieing goal six minutes into the second half as Giannini flicked in a beautiful header. Central responded with some solid play that resulted in the game winner being scored when Perry took a nice pass from Mike Casale into the open field and beat the Lowell goalie with the game winner. John McGinness was in net for the Wallace boys as he came up big early in the game with two terrific stops on point blank shots. This was John's fourth win in net. The MVC Large School Division is a real horse race as Central(3-1) and Dracut (2-0-2) are in a tie for first with six points each while Lowell(2-1-1) has five in thrid, Chelmsford (1-3) has two and Andover(0-3-1) has one to round out the division. Central next plays a non-conference game with Haverhill at Haverhill Stadium on Tuesday, September 26 at 7 PM. Haverhill's outstanding Sophomore Marin has lit up the nets with 13 goals in his first 5 games with Haverhill, and should give the Central defenders all they can handle.