Long Time Coming

On Tuesday we faced Eastmont and this game has been circled on the schedule since last year. A little history on the series; Southridge has never beat them, last season we lost at home in a shootout after a 0-0 draw, then we played them in a regional playoff game and after a 1-1 draw we lost the shootout again thus ending our season. So as you could imagine the boys wanted to win this game very badly.

Eastmont is having a down year. This could be expected after losing the league MVP from two seasons ago as well as all conference defenders, goal keeper and forward. However, after the first few minutes of the game we could tell they aren't that far off from their quality of play over the last three seasons. They were able to knock the ball around with precision and purpose. The only thing they were lacking was a good goal scorer or a player to set up goals. Luckily for us we have both of those, Jarad Brisbin got his conference leading sixth assist in the 15th minute on a beautiful ball that was crossed to Sophomore Zach Russell. Congratulations are in order to Zach who got his first career varsity goal. Freshmen Jake Zoulek who has enjoyed all four of his goals on assists form Brisbin decided to repay the favor as he set up Jarad's sixth goal of the year. Goalkeeper Branden Hale booted a long ball which Senior Corey Grady flicked on to the feet of Zoulek, who then played a nice ball down the line. After Brisbin beat a defender he dispatched the keeper with a well struck left footed shot to the far post. Hale earned his fifth shutout of the year and his fourth through six league games.

Well done to the boys as they can cross another off the list of team goals they set at the beginning of the season. Also in the last four games the team has earned 21 points out of a possible 24. They head into tonight's tough Walla Walla road game seeking their sixth win in a row.