St. Thomas More @ Shorewood [9/15/08]

The St. Thomas More Cavilers JV and Varsity soccer game was moved from Croatian Park (STM's home field) to the brand new turf stadium at Shorewood. The JV was first to play at 4:30 against the unknown Shorewood JV team. Last year the JV game between the two teams was cancelled because of weather. Well the game started with the JV players playing on turf for the first time. The game was going pretty quickly when in about the 20th minute James Komorowski got the ball in the Shorewood box, he made a cut inside and chipped the Shorewood goalie with a left footed shot. The game went on and at half time the Thomas More JV team was leading 1-0. The second half started and the Shorewood JV had a new, inordinately large player come into the game. About 10 minutes in this large player got the ball and immediately shot and made the goal. The game was now tied at one. The game went on still tied. Then in the 76th minute Thomas More had the ball in the Shorewood box. The ball just kept flying around when finally Luis Goagos got a head on the ball and it hit the back of the net. Thomas More was up 2-1 and that's how it would end. Thomas More JV team getting there first victory in 4 games. There record is now 1-1-2 (1-0-1).
Next up was the St. Thomas More verse Shorewood varsity game. Last year Thomas More had won on a late second half goal by Matt Cheaney that had actually hit off the poll on the back of the net and went in the goal under the net. Thomas More won the game 1-0. This year there match up was a little different from last years. Like the JV team, most of the varsity players had little experience with turf. Shorewood was first to score in the game in the 17th minute. A few minutes later Thomas More added a goal by Luis Esquiveal in the 25th minute. The game was tied 1-1 going into half time. Thomas More felt good and thought that they would be getting there first conference victory. Half time ended and the game resumed. Shorewood got on the board quickly with a goal in the 45th minute.Shorewood was now leading 2-1. Thomas More's Luis Esquiveal got his second yellow card of the game and was ejected. Shorewood added another goal in the 78th minute and that's how the game would end. St. Thomas More stull without a conference victory. Record 4-5 (0-2)


Next Up: Jv and Varsity play Brown Deer on Wednesday at Brown Deer at 4:30
The freshmen play Franklin at 4:30 at the Cousins Center.