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Boys’ Soccer snares a pair of WCAC road wins

Posted On: Tuesday, October 14, 2014
By: wsimmons

Senior Kyle Delaney (9) has led the Cardinals throughout the season with confident, poised play.

Coach Jon Norem’s squad surprised the Bishop O’Connell Knights, 1-0 in Arlington on Oct 7th and followed it up with another shutout, this time a 6-0 shellacking of Bishop McNamara in Forestville on Friday.

The wins vault the Cardinals (4-1-1)  into third place in the WCAC, behind Good Counsel at 5-0-1 and second place DeMatha at 4-1-1.  The Conference awards three points for a win, one for a tie, none for a loss and tiebreakers awarded in head-to-head action.

Once again, junior Joey Faddoul found the net for the visiting Cardinals, a great finish off an crisp pass from Kyle Delaney to give Bishop Ireton a 1-0 halftime advantage.  Matt Poling would make the Faddoul goal stand as the Ireton defense denied the fleet-footed Knights the equalizer through a up and down second half.

The defense stayed on task Friday and Poling responded with another 80 minutes of shutout play in goal. The Cardinals struggled to a 1-0 advantage at halftime on a Faddoul tally, unable to convert on a number of scoring chances.  Whatever they did at intermission, that problem disappeared in the final stanza.

Bishop Ireton tallied five times in the second half and turned the nail biter into a rout.  Nick Ducceschi scored twice in the avalanche, Faddoul added another, Kyle Delaney notched a goal for the Cardinals. Coach Jon Norem singled out Preston Haugh, suggesting the cagey junior assisted on at least three of the Ireton goals, if not more.

Next up is first place Good Counsel on Tuesday under the lights. JV kicks off at 4pm in Kline Stadium with the varsity match to follow. The Cardinals return home Friday to host St Johns before ending the WCAC campaign on Tuesday, entertaining Paul VI.  The season concludes with a non conference senior day tilt with McNamara, before entering tournament action the following week.

The Cardinals now look to the home stretch with a challenging week ahead. First place Good Counsel hosts the surging Cardinals at Kline Stadium on Tuesday, a 5:30pm start time following the JV tilt at 4pm.  The Cardinals then return home for a key match up with St Johns on Friday before concluding the WCAC season Paul VI next week.

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