Bethesda Internationals

11 Sep. '04. On a pleasant day but on a poor field with high, uncut grass and sloping field contour, Inter battled MSC United in its first game of the young fall 2004 season. And, indeed it was a battle, with Inter keeping pace and pretty much shut down MSC United's vaunted offensive scoring machine. The first half clearly belonged to MSC United, who managed 3 CK's and 6 SOG's to Inter's 4 SOG's only. There were more than 2 dozen fouls awarded MSC United, with 2 yellow cards to Jamie and Tobie and 1 red card sendt off 2 MSC United parents! At about the 23 minute mark, Chris W. served a nicely placed ball into the goal mouth from about 30 yards out, where Julio Jr. beat Rob to the ball and headed (glanced) it over Rob into the net from 15 yards, and landed on top of Rob with cleat into Rob's right leg afterwards. Rob lay on the ground in pain for several minutes and believed a foul should've been called but it was a good goal and the collision was unavoidable after the ball was headed by Julio and then landed on Rob afterwards. At halftime, Rob was still upset and simply left the huddle in frustration. Nat stepped in as GK in the second half -- never having played GK before, and did a brilliant job stopping several hard shots by MSC United. Inter played MSC United to a scoreless 2nd half, shooting 3 CK's and 1 SOG to MSC United's 4 CK's and 4 SOG's.