Announcement
2 Feb. '08. On another cold but not so blustery day at Covenant Park, the Internationals were without Ben N., Patrick, Martin, Scott & Mati today to face the Redland York United team from EPA/CPYSA. And, the United's GK was as tall if not taller than Seth, and could punt the ball quite well! The Internationals controlled play for most of the match in the first half taking 7 shots on goal while committing 7 fouls (including 1 offsides). At about the 25 minute mark, Skylar sent a long pass upfield on the right to Brian near the sideline about 20 yards out where he dribbled a few steps forward/inward and found a crease to strike in a beauty left-footed goal past the surprised GK in the right corner of the net. Just 3 minutes later, the United managed to penetrate deep into Inter's goal area on a counter-attack and the center official called a foul in the box on either Seth or Nat but the resultant PK was stopped in a great athletic save by Seth as he dove to his right to deflect the ball off of his fingertips as it deflected off the side post away out of harms way, and the half ended, 1-0, Internationals. The Internationals controlled play for most of the second half but the United stepped up their physicality committing 10 fouls (including 2 YC's shown to #6 and #25 for hard fouls & including 1 offsides). Inter's strong defense stymied the United team, limiting them to just 1 shot on goal which was unsuccessful and no corner kicks taken. Although the Internationals created numerous scoring opportunites, including 7 shots on goal and 3 corner kicks, it was unable to fnish another goal while committing 3 fouls (including 1 offsides), and the match ended, 1-0, Internationals.
