Bethesda Internationals

12 Jun. '05. Inter's last game of the season brought them to Baltimore (Owings Mills) to play the always hard-working and strong BAYS 92 team. The match was rescheduled from the week before due to Inter's participation in the MD State Cup final match against the Freestate Titans, who would earn the Championship with a 1-0 win over Inter. It was a hot, bright and sunny day at Deer Park ES where the pitch was much better (although the grass was sorely in need of cutting) than most of the poor fields up at Mercer County Park in Windsor Hills, NJ, where 6 of Inter's players (and 2 BAYS' players) just returned from an ODP tournament only minutes before kickoff. In the 1st half, the BAYS had the bright sun in their eyes and played Inter evenly for most of the half, shooting once on goal with Ben starting as GK, and committing 5 fouls while Inter made only a single shot on goal, with 2 corner kicks and 2 fouls, and the half ended in a scoreless tie. With the sun in their eyes in the 2nd half, Inter stepped up its attacking/counter-attacking with a furious 10 shots on goal, 2 corners and 7 fouls, while the BAYS were held to just a single but effective shot on goal and 6 fouls. At about the 13 minute mark, Skylar launched a nicely placed corner kick into the goal mouth about 6 yards out where Mati positioned himself perfectly to kick the ball past the defenders/GK and into the net. Around the 22 minute mark, Inter stopped a BAYS attack and countered upfield where SKylar made a crisp pass to find Ebo around 20-25 yards out and he fired a hard shot into the left side of the net past the keeper. Several minutes later, the BAYS made a very nice counter attack of their own, passing and moving the ball upfield to a player who skillfully dribbled the ball into and between Inter's defenders in the center of the goal mouth about 10-15 yards out, where he then sent a nice strike to the right of the net past Nat who had no chance to attempt the save. With about 2 minutes to play, Inter again was on the attack when a long pass was sent upfield and Nicholas deftly headed/flicked the ball forward into the goal mouth about 10 yards out where Ebo (whose tank was filled with extra high-test octane today) collected the ball, dribbled several steps forward and as the keeper came out to challenge the ball, Ebo scooped up the ball over the keeper into the net for Inter's 3rd goal. End of match, 3-1, Inter.