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Boys’ Soccer Wins 2 of 3 in a busy week of action

Posted On: Monday, September 22, 2014
By: wsimmons

Preston Haugh has done it all for the Cardinals early in the campaign, a key part of a 6-2 start for the squad.

Bishop Ireton opened up play on Tuesday September 16th  at Witter Field, beginning their conference slate against Archbishop Carroll.   A tight first half saw the score at 2-0 with goals from Patrick Reilly assisted by Joey Faddoul then Joey Faddoul scoring with the assist coming from Reilly.

The second half would find the Cardinals getting the run of play and finding the back of the net.  Patrick Reilly completed his hat trick with the next two goals, both assisted again from Faddoul to make it 4-0.  Faddoul would find the back of the net again with George Mereu registering an assist on the goal.

Kyle Delaney joined the scoring with another Faddoul assist, Faddoul ended the match with 8 assists in all.  Mereu registered a talley for Ireton with the assist being credited to Preston Haugh.  Alan Sempertegui, Matt Pham, Matthew Breiner, and Jake Miklovic rounded out the scoring for an emphatic Ireton WCAC conference win. Matt Poling and Dylan Westphal each split time between the sticks in keeping the clean sheet for BI.

The next day, Bishop Ireton traveled up Seminary Road to take on the defending VISAA Div. 1 State Champions in St. Stephen’s St. Agnes.  A scrappy game against the city rivals saw Ireton get on the scoreboard first.  With less than five minutes remaining before halftime, frosh George Mereu took a free kick quickly, finding Preston Haugh in the Saints corner of the pitch.  Haugh looked up and found Faddoul inside the box and Faddoul cooly netted what would end up being the game winner in a tightly contested 1-0 win for Ireton.  Matt Polling went the full 80 minutes for his second “full clean sheet” of the season.

Friday would see the end of a busy week in boy’s soccer, with the highly motivated Heights School coming to Fannon Field.  The third and final match of the week for the Cardinals was the most competitive and complete game of the week.

Patrick Reilly neatly finished a rebound to put Ireton up 1-0 early.  The Heights would respond before halftime scoring on a long ball played into the Ireton defensive third.  Matt Poling came out to punch the ball just on the edge of his 18 yard box, but the ball would ricochet off a home team and Heights player and go directly into the net.  Poling took the brunt of the play, seeing his keeper shirt torn at the end of the furious action in the box.

The second half really brought about Ireton’s ability to compete, putting together several passing sequences and dangerous play in The Heights defensive third.  However another long ball counter attack would see The Heights go up 2-1.

Ireton remained on the attack, however the goal would not come, and a competitive match would see the Redbirds finishing off their busy week of soccer losing 2-1.

Coach Jon Norem’s squad will take the strong week of soccer into another conference game this Tuesday against DeMatha at 3:30 on Heurich Field, before returning home to Fannon Field to take on VISAA and diocesan rival, Saint John Paul the Great.

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