New Berlin Soccer Report: Weeks 3 and 4

Avalanche, Dynamo: With all the rainy weather lately, Team Dynamo had not played soccer together since our practice on 9/22. That lapse was evident in our overall game-play this beautiful fall morning. The Avalanche presented a very strong defense which caused our offensive unit to struggle. Our passes weren’t as good as during our 9/17 game. Consequently, we spent more time on defense. Troy Marciniak was our leading scorer again this week with 4 goals and several shots on goal. Becca Hall also continued her scoring streak with another goal this week. Our Sweepers were not as effective this week as they were in our last game. Again, the rainout on 9/24 and the inability to hold practice this past week really hurt our skills progression. Becca Hall held strong this week with 4 rejections followed closely by Katie Gerten with 3 stops. Troy and Ella Thompson each thwarted 2 drives toward Dynamo’s goal and Alexander Kemstra and Aurelio Sanchez also contributed to our defense around our goal. In our excitement and enthusiasm, we saw the reoccurrence of a couple early season problems of forgetting which direction we were headed and putting the ball into our own goal. All-in-all though, the gorgeous weather and the fun of playing together again seemed to make for a very enjoyable day for Team Dynamo!

Blast (Smarty Pants Learning Center), Comets: The Blast used their best defensive effort of the year to shut out the Comets 12-0.  Evan Brazaitis, Anupiya Tiwari and Riley Henrichs anchored the defense.  The Comets were a quick team, but all three players aggressively turned back numerous offensive pushes by the Comets with clear outs that quickly turned to scores.  Sam Batchelor and Drew Davis led the Blast on the offensive end of the field with four goals each.  Jordan Bauer and Dylan Holschbach also contributed goals.

Fury 3, Impact 2: The fury squeezed out another win We almost lost to penalty kicks due to our goalies being called on hand balls. Our defense was tough though. Dawson Loebel scored two of the goals and Matthew Ewens scored the third. It was a competitive game.

Storm, Thunder: The Storm took control of the game early and never looked back.  They were led by a dominating game from Rachel Mueller that did all the scoring for the storm with 5 goals.  There was some great defensive plays from both teams and the thunder goal keepers were everywhere stopping many would be goals.

Voltage, Whitecaps: The Girls minis Whitecaps, team 9, played team Voltage at Malone Park, on October 1st.  Ella Wendlick blocked 6 attempts as goalie in the first half, Brooke Bluhm blocked two shots as  goalie in the 2nd half.  Madisyn Hegarty scored a goal.  Both teams played hard

Tornados 2, Wizards 3: Beautiful, slightly windy day for a game of soccer. Cassidy Kroupa, Julia Cullaz, and Kennedy Poepping played strong as forwards. Cassidy scored two goals, one on a penalty kick. Kennedy scored a goal in the second half. Meghan Schultz and Trinity Uttech played well in goal position. Kara Ward had strong kicks and good throw ins. Caitlyn Getzloff and Avery Levandoski kept their eyes on the ball in defender positions. The young Wizards were magically impressive playing soccer today. Happy for their win.

Piranhas 6, Quakes 1: The Piranhas continued their winning streak on goals by Will Roder, Nick Nestor, Ben Crosby (2), and Bill Dowling (2) with several assists provided by Luka Zadrima at Midfielder.  Our opponents were kept to one goal thanks to great defensive plays made by our Stoppers, Nick Oelschlaeger and Sid Blessington, and our goalies Will Roder and Ethan Gebert.  Handing out the Game Balls was a tough decision as everyone played very well, but Ben Crosby and Nick Oelschlaeger really rose to the top this game - congratulations.

Avalanche, Blast: The Blast were all over the field  Morgan Goff led them with 4 goals, Amber Noel added in two goals.  Madison Blasczyk had a great goal, kicked just over the head of the Avalanche goalie and another combined with Layne Diffley. Regan Raposa showed great control dribbling through defenders to score her first goal of the season.  The Avalanche did a great job of never giving up and playing to the final whistle.

Crossfire (Classic Motorcars Inc) 5, Dynamo 2: It was a brisk, sunny day this morning. Both sides began to boot the ball back and forth across the pitch. Emily Collette brought an early lead to Crossfire, which was short lived as Dynamo brought the score level. Alyssa Mallman for Crossfire followed for the team by bringing the score 2-1. Emily Collette added one more to the tally and brought it 3-1 for Crossfire. Dynamo clawed back one more to bring the score 3-2. Sara Marquez reaffirmed Crossfire's lead by driving through the middle with a clean shot for 4-2. The game was summed up in the final minute as Emily Collette completed the hat trick with a sniper's shot from outside of the box to finish 5-2 Crossfire.

Strikers 4, Surge 4: Will Hedges and Justice Dodd combined for 3 of 4 goals in the tie.

Dynasty 4, Eclipse 1: Great defense by Eclipse's Andrea Leder and Rae Fodor-Law. Nice hustle and intensity by Laura Paez and Brianna Kesher.