SHORELINE
Two quick goals early in the second half were enough for Shorecrest to turn back its crosstown rival Shorewood 2-0 March 16 at Shoreline Stadium.
“We knew we had to come out hard in the second half,” Teddy Wingo, a Shorecrest senior co-captain, said. “We just happened to get a couple goals.”
Shorecrest didn’t need pretty crosses, breakaways or adept dribbling to score in the Western Conference South Division game. The Scots simply were in the right place at the right time.
The first goal came in the 48th minute, when Wingo finished off a sequence initiated by forward Mike Ehrhart.
“Ehrhart flicked it on, their defense made a mistake and we capitalized,” Wingo said.
With goalkeeper Andrew Igl out of the goal box, the ball hit off a Shorewood defender and rolled toward the goal line, with Wingo coming on to boot it through.
“The first goal was miscommunication, panic. It happens,” Alex Krowka, a Shorewood senior co-captain said. “We were just unlucky it happened today.”
Two minutes later, Igl came out to grab a loose ball but it squirted free, and Shorecrest forward Jake Mason was there to knock it in.
Shorecrest outshot Shorewood 12-6. Igl made eight saves for the Thunderbirds.
“We still have some work to do in the finishing department but it’s going to come,” Wingo said.
Shorecrest improved to 1-0-1 in the Western Conference South Division while Shorewood fell to 1-1. The Thunderbirds last beat the Scots in 2000.
“They were tough, they played hard,” Wingo said of Shorewood. “I have to commend them.”
Shorewood picked up six yellow cards in the game, including, two by senior forward Alias Mohammed. The two yellows constituted a soft red card and ejection for Mohammed, who had to sit out the T-birds’ next game. The ejection was the first in the Shoreline School District in the 2006-2007 school year, district athletic director Don Dalziel said.
The two teams meet again April 11 at Shoreline Stadium.
This season, all Wesco South teams play twice in games that count in the standings, a change brought about by reclassification.
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