On Senior Night Cards Get Hard Fought Draw with Oak Hills, 3-3.

Contributed by Mike Hoffman

October 14, 2009

Colerain welcomed Oak Hills tonight. This game was played on the turf field due to wet weather over the past few days.

JV

This was one of the better games this team has played. The amount of hustle and enthusiasm was the highlight of this game. Colerain played a high pressure game, keeping their defense pushed up as far as possible the entire match. For the most part, the Cardinals kept the ball on Oak Hill's side of the field. The goal of the game was when Colerain pushed everyone past the 50 yard line, including the sweeper. This allowed Oak Hills to play a long ball to Colerain's half of the field, their striker was then able to run on the ball and create a one on one situation with the goalie, which then scored. There is an old soccer saying: "you live and die by pressure".

Varsity

It was Senior Night for the Card's, honoring their 5 graduating seniors. Playing their last home game for the Colerain Cardinals were: Ryan Theile, Sam Salatin, Connor Mcgee, Mike Davidson, and Chris McAfee.

This was a game of determination, with both teams having roughly the same record and Colerain having played last night at Lakota West, the Cardinals had to show what they were made of. Oak Hills jumped to an early lead, scoring in the first two minutes of the game off of a low shot into the corner of the net from just outside the box. 1-0 Highlanders. Oak Hills would score again 10 minutes into the match on a play that started from a throw in. The ball was played back to the player that threw it in, who served it up to the center of the Colerain goal box; an Oak Hills striker was then able to put it in. 2-0 Highlanders. Colerain was able to get one back before the end of the half. With three minutes remaining, Damani Storm's drove the ball down into the Oak Hills corner, Damani then served up a nice 50/50 ball in front of Oak Hills goal; Ben Mikkelson made a nice diving head ball into the Oak Hills goal. 2-1 Highlanders. Ten minutes into the second half Colerain scored again. This started when Mike Davidson took a hard shot from just outside the penalty are, hitting the near post; Connor Mcgee following the shot was able to control the ball and score. Game tied 2-2. With 22 minutes remaining Colerain would take the lead. Ben Mikkelson received the ball at the top of the Oak Hills box slightly left of center; Mikkelson immediately turned and fired a hard, low shot that the Oak Hills keeper could not get to, giving Mikkelson his second goal of the game. 3-2 Cardinals. With 16 minutes left in the game oak Hills received a penalty kick just outside the top right corner of the penalty box. Oak Hills quickly chipped the ball up into the center where a striker one touched the ball into the goal. The game ended tied 3-3. The one thing Colerain can take away from this game was their ability to generate some offense and score some goals. One last not, Colerain wore pink socks for this game to show their support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

From Coach Berry & AD Dan Bolden:

Saturday's boy's soccer game times and location have been changed. The JV will play at 1pm and the Varsity at 3pm. The games will not be played at Talawanda High School but at Oxford Community Park.

Colerain drew Loveland for their first postseason tournament match. The game will be played at Loveland on Tuesday October 20th at 7:00pm.

Good Luck Colerain!!!!!!!!!