Bethesda Internationals

17 Oct. '04. On a nice day but on a poor field near Lorton prison in Occoquan, Inter played a determined Team America 91 Red team who came ready to play. The first half found Inter moving the ball well on the TASC side of the field, shooting 5 times on goal and either missed wide, bounced off the sidebar or caught by their strong GK who would effectively punt the ball far down field to Inter's side. Inter's tight defense limited the TASC team to just 2 shots on goal, while each team managed just 1 CK each. The TASC team committed 9 fouls to Inter's 5, and the first half ended in a scoreless tie. In the second half, Inter stepped up its offense with 7 SOG's and 2 CK's. One yellow card was awarded to TASC player for fouling 'Ebo' and a yellow was given to Patrick for 'delay of game' for picking up the ball and dropping it away from play after a foul on Inter. The second half was foul-plagued with 10 going to TASC and 7 to Inter. After a DK from about 15 yards out to the right of TASC's goal, 'Ebo' placed a perfect header hard to the net but right into the hands of GK. Although Inter controlled the tempo of play, TASC launched several swift counter attacks, and at about the 30 minute mark, TASC countered with a hard ball sent towards the left of goal and it was ineffectively cleared out to the center of the goal mouth at about 18 yards where a TASC player struck the ball well towards the net and it was deflected out to the left to an unmarked open TASC player at about 10-12 yards who kicked it in wide left of Nat into the net for the winning goal. Hats off to TASC for a well-earned victory.