Bethesda Internationals

29 Oct. '05. Once again, Inter played out at Muldoon's farm -- for the 6th and final time this season. Although the skies were sunny, the wind was blowing fiercely and the mid-50's temps felt like upper-30's. Today, Inter faced the always hard-working and determined McLean Thunder, and it had the wind to its backs in the 1st half. Inter controlled the tempo of the match, moving the ball easily upfield, setting up 6 shots on goal and 2 corners in the 1st half while committing 6 fouls. At about the 16 minute mark, Nicholas sent a nice cross from about 20 yards out on the right into the center of the goal area about 10 yards out where Vitalis perfectly timed his jump and struck a hard header into the net past the keeper. The Thunder were able to penetrate into Inter's side of the field 2-3 times and managed a single shot on goal which was easily caught/stopped by Nat, and committed 3 fouls -- one Yellow card awarded to #12 for pulling Skylar backwards. Against the wind in the 2nd half, Inter created 7 shots on goal, no corners and committed 7 fouls, while stymying the Thunder to no shots on goal, 2 corners with 3 fouls. Within the 1st minute of the second half, Vitalis received a pass on the left near the mid-center line and dribbled upfield to the left corner area and sent what appeared to be a nice service into the goal mouth and the keeper attempted to punch the ball out but it deflected off of his finger tips into the goal. One minute later, in what appeared to be an instant replay, Ebo received a pass on the left side and dribbled upfield to the Thunder's left corner area and sent another appraent service into the goal mouth which sailed over the keeper's outstretched arms into the net. With about 2 minutes left to play, Skylar, who was repositioned to stopper, cleared a nice long ball upfield about 30 yards into the Thunder's side where Ben collected the ball, dribbled forward a few steps and then made a nice through pass to Nat (who was replaced by Ben at GK and then Ebo subbed for Ben later in the second half), on the right about 10 yards out and Nat struck in a nice hard shot past the keeper into the net for Inter's 4th goal. End of match, 4-0, Inter.