Bethesda Internationals

26 Sep. '04. Inter played the talented Potomac Fusion (ex-BAYS '93) on a superb field at the MD Soccer Plex. The Fusion is playing up an age group in U13/D1 this season. Inter faced the Fusion in the recent Washington Fall Classic, and clearly controlled the match, but lost in the final 30 seconds when a Fusion player struck a hard shot high over all players and into the upper 90 of the net. Today's match was relatively even in the first half with both teams possessing/moving the ball, and the Fusion took about 4 SOG's compared to Inter's 6 in the first half. Both sides committed 2 fouls each, and no goals were scored. Inter's strong defense stymied the Fusion in the 2nd half, limiting them to just 1 weak SOG compared to Inter's 7 SOGs. At about the 8 minute mark, Nicholas crossed a nice serve into Skylar at about 18 yars out to the right, whereby Skylar chested the ball up in the air and on its way down struck a perfectly placed shot high into the net past the keeper. Around the 14 minute mark, Nicholas found Patrick 'Ebo' on a run up the middle and placed the ball to Patrick's feet, whereby Patrick collected the ball and darted thru the defenders to place a hard shot into the net past the outstretched arms of the keeper. Several minutes later at about the 17 minute mark, this secnario was repeated, with Nicholas again passing to 'Ebo', who deftly dribbled past the defenders on the left and sent in a line drive which froze the keeper as it whizzed past him and into the back of the net.