Bethesda Internationals

26 Jul. '06. At the GWU/Mt. Vernon campus, 'Inter' participated in a pre-scrimmage warm-up together with our old friends from VA, RFC 91, now BRYC 91, and held by GWU Head Coach, George Lidster. And, then, with much of the back line away at camp/vacation (Philip, Nick/Ben) and Mati on the bench with a new short case on his left wrist, 'Inter' and BRYC 91 scrimmaged on the nice turf field for 3 periods of about 25 minutes each. In the 1st period, BRYC 91 looked sharp and moved the ball well, countering with nice crisp passing and overlapping runs, shooting 3 times on goal but missing wide twice and Joe stopped a hard shot at the net. BRYC also managed 1 CK which was unsuccessful and held Inter to just two shots on goal which went awry. In the 2nd period, BRYC penetrated into 'Inter's' backline on several occasions with some nice passing/runs, and shot 5 times on goal, and Joe made a finger-tip save to deflect a ball behind the touch line to setup the only CK of the period by BRYC which was unsuccessful. However, at about the 16 minute mark, BRYC mounted a nice counter attack with good passing that found an open player behind the right back line and a nice shot by BRYC zoomed in past Joe intot he back of the net for the only goal of the scrimmage. Inter managed 3 shots on goal which all went awry, including a nice hard shot by Skylar at around the 23 minute mark, but the ball struck the left side bar and ricocheted up to the cross bar and back down onto the turf. Fatigue set in for the 3rd period for 'Inter' with only 1 sub available, but still managed to hold BRYC to a single missed shot on goal and 1 CK which was unconverted. 'Inter' was likewise held to just 1 shot on goal and 1 CK, both would not be converted either, and scrimmage ended, 1-0, for BRYC.