Cucuy FC - Anteaters 1:4 (0:1)
Not sure if these guys are in our league, but they were good. The main problem was, Kyle wasn't available, so we had to find another keeper. Jason played first half and did what he could, only let one shot past him, not bad. On our attack, Ben had two good chances, missed the goal by a tad, and hit the post on the second.
Second half the game was pretty even, with chances on both sides. Mason was in goal second half and saw a lot more action. We tried to keep the ball away from the goal but the Anteaters were able to score three more. Ben had another two really good chances, missed on by a hair and the keeper saved the other one, looks like the keeper knew what he was doing. Hintz got the goal of honor after a nice setup from Jason on the left. If Jason had played up front first half, everything would have been different...
Goal: Hintz
MVP: Karol
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Summer Season Starts with a Loss
Cucuy FC - BFG United 1:4
For the season opener we played another Premier League team, BFG, which has given us trouble in the past. They started with only 9 players, which did not stop them from scoring the 1:0. Soon they added a player and another goal, but we came back with our only goal that day from Hintz. They could have added another one but luckily, Nick in goal was able to save it. Unluckily, he was not our goalie, so he was sent off with a red, a very fair move on Nick's side leveling the playing field 10 vs. 10.
Second half they were able to add two more.
Goal: Dave H.
MVP:
For the season opener we played another Premier League team, BFG, which has given us trouble in the past. They started with only 9 players, which did not stop them from scoring the 1:0. Soon they added a player and another goal, but we came back with our only goal that day from Hintz. They could have added another one but luckily, Nick in goal was able to save it. Unluckily, he was not our goalie, so he was sent off with a red, a very fair move on Nick's side leveling the playing field 10 vs. 10.
Second half they were able to add two more.
Goal: Dave H.
MVP:
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Odd Game Against Republic
Cucuy FC : Republic FC 4:5 (1:5)
This game just further reinforced that the divisions don’t mean anything here in SASA, because for the second week in a row, we played a premier division team. However, instead of playing a bottom of the barrel premier team, we got put up against the second place Republic FC. Thanks Gary… thanks a lot.
The first half went pretty abysmally for us. We only had one goal to show which was somewhere in the middle of 5 Republic goals. Our one goal came from Scott K. who received a ball up top outside the 18 and ripped a curling shot over the keepers head to the center of the net. A lot of Republic’s goals were just unfortunate long shots that rebounded right to one of their players for an easy finish.
However, in an unlikely turn of events we owned the second half of the game. A possible correlation to this result was Hintz stepping off of the field when Scott K. generously offered him a sub shortly into the half. With that change, we all of a sudden started scoring goals. It started with another Josh-style goal from none other than Josh himself. He found his sweet spot again at the upper right corner of the box where basically no one except him has any right to shoot from. He took a curling left footed shot which soared right over the keepers head to the far netting. Well done. Next came a run down the right side from Huczek, who managed to catch the bull and take a hard shot from a tough angle from the right side, and the ball managed to slip through the keeper’s hands. This prompted a response from a frustrated Republic midfield amongst themselves “How many crap goals are we going to let in?!”, to which Jason sarcastically replied “Well, that’s 3 now…”
Lastly, in his first game with Cucuy, John was able to score on a break through the middle resulting from some nice passing with other Cucuy offense men, which he tucked away to the far left netting on his way in. It was a good display of perseverance despite the score at halftime.
-Hintz
Goals: Scott K., Josh, Jason, John
MVP: Josh
This game just further reinforced that the divisions don’t mean anything here in SASA, because for the second week in a row, we played a premier division team. However, instead of playing a bottom of the barrel premier team, we got put up against the second place Republic FC. Thanks Gary… thanks a lot.
The first half went pretty abysmally for us. We only had one goal to show which was somewhere in the middle of 5 Republic goals. Our one goal came from Scott K. who received a ball up top outside the 18 and ripped a curling shot over the keepers head to the center of the net. A lot of Republic’s goals were just unfortunate long shots that rebounded right to one of their players for an easy finish.
However, in an unlikely turn of events we owned the second half of the game. A possible correlation to this result was Hintz stepping off of the field when Scott K. generously offered him a sub shortly into the half. With that change, we all of a sudden started scoring goals. It started with another Josh-style goal from none other than Josh himself. He found his sweet spot again at the upper right corner of the box where basically no one except him has any right to shoot from. He took a curling left footed shot which soared right over the keepers head to the far netting. Well done. Next came a run down the right side from Huczek, who managed to catch the bull and take a hard shot from a tough angle from the right side, and the ball managed to slip through the keeper’s hands. This prompted a response from a frustrated Republic midfield amongst themselves “How many crap goals are we going to let in?!”, to which Jason sarcastically replied “Well, that’s 3 now…”
Lastly, in his first game with Cucuy, John was able to score on a break through the middle resulting from some nice passing with other Cucuy offense men, which he tucked away to the far left netting on his way in. It was a good display of perseverance despite the score at halftime.
-Hintz
Goals: Scott K., Josh, Jason, John
MVP: Josh
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Cucuy Deports Toros
Cucuy FC vs. Deportivo Toros 4:1 (2:0)
What an unbelievable game to have the privilege of writing the summary for. We had 14 confirmed players for this Sunday, but we actually started and ended the game with 9. We had 10 for half of the game while Justin was on the field, but he unfortunately hyper-extended his knee and was carried off the pitch early in the second half. Hopefully it’s not too serious and we’ll see you back on the field soon. Before the game even started, there was discussion in the midfield if we should forfeit and turn the game into an even numbered scrimmage, but we decided to at least play the first half and see how things went.
In the beginning of the game we just sustained and marked as best we could to not concede any early goals. We found chances of our own on counter attacks up the wings, but nothing materialized for us. We earned a free kick from the right side of the field, which Karol took and put it into the box on the far post. Toros defenders interfered with their keeper and the ball sailed through the defense, which somehow connected with Scott D. running through on the back side. Not expecting the ball, it went off Scott’s chest and into the net. Now we actually had something to play for. Just before the end of the first half, a lazy clearance from the Toros defense gave Hintz the ball outside the 18. He beat a defender 5-hole and was in on the keeper which he slotted far post. On the walk back to midfield the whistle blew for halftime, which was a dagger to Toros going down another goal right before the half was called.
We knew second half would be brutal. It was getting hotter outside, we expended a ton of energy in the first half, and Toros is not the type of team to give up. We continued to develop chances on counter attacks while Toros struggle to find chances of their own. On a play where their entire team pushed up way too far (everyone past half field), Hintz was able to put Steve K. in on his own 1 on 1 with their keeper. Steve was already behind their defense as the ball was played, and he wasn’t even past the half line. Steve juked the keeper to the right, just as the Toros defense caught up with him. He took a tough angle shot that Toros got a piece of, and the ball slowly trickled back into the corner of the net for an unbelievable 3 goal lead.
Just when we thought it couldn’t get any better, we earned a corner, which we elected to let Scott D. take since he’s naturally lefty. He swung the ball in where Hintz beat the Toros defense in the air Brent Becker style to give Cucuy a 4 goal lead. Now we decided it was time to turtle up and just maintain the lead. There was about 30 minutes left and we were gassed. Toros only managed to score one through the remainder of the game due to some serious effort on the defensive front.
Serious props go to the Cucuy defense for playing tight and active all game. Nick had a great stomach save on a shot that went far post where he held tight on the goal line. Kyle had one of his best games ever in regards to coming off his line collecting crosses played into the Cucuy 18, which prevented anything from developing. He also had some stud saves on long shots from the 18.
I’m sure everyone knows at this point, but Karol has started a job in Houston as of today, June 2. He will be with us for a couple more games over the next month, but sadly we’ll be losing him permanently in the near future. Dave Schluneker will be taking over management of Cucuy, so let’s show him the same level of dedication that we’ve given to Karol all these years.
Dave H.
Goals: Hintz (2), Scott D., Steve K.
MVP: All of Cucuy. Everyone individually stepped up and did our part in this game and we truly earned this win as a team.
What an unbelievable game to have the privilege of writing the summary for. We had 14 confirmed players for this Sunday, but we actually started and ended the game with 9. We had 10 for half of the game while Justin was on the field, but he unfortunately hyper-extended his knee and was carried off the pitch early in the second half. Hopefully it’s not too serious and we’ll see you back on the field soon. Before the game even started, there was discussion in the midfield if we should forfeit and turn the game into an even numbered scrimmage, but we decided to at least play the first half and see how things went.
In the beginning of the game we just sustained and marked as best we could to not concede any early goals. We found chances of our own on counter attacks up the wings, but nothing materialized for us. We earned a free kick from the right side of the field, which Karol took and put it into the box on the far post. Toros defenders interfered with their keeper and the ball sailed through the defense, which somehow connected with Scott D. running through on the back side. Not expecting the ball, it went off Scott’s chest and into the net. Now we actually had something to play for. Just before the end of the first half, a lazy clearance from the Toros defense gave Hintz the ball outside the 18. He beat a defender 5-hole and was in on the keeper which he slotted far post. On the walk back to midfield the whistle blew for halftime, which was a dagger to Toros going down another goal right before the half was called.
We knew second half would be brutal. It was getting hotter outside, we expended a ton of energy in the first half, and Toros is not the type of team to give up. We continued to develop chances on counter attacks while Toros struggle to find chances of their own. On a play where their entire team pushed up way too far (everyone past half field), Hintz was able to put Steve K. in on his own 1 on 1 with their keeper. Steve was already behind their defense as the ball was played, and he wasn’t even past the half line. Steve juked the keeper to the right, just as the Toros defense caught up with him. He took a tough angle shot that Toros got a piece of, and the ball slowly trickled back into the corner of the net for an unbelievable 3 goal lead.
Just when we thought it couldn’t get any better, we earned a corner, which we elected to let Scott D. take since he’s naturally lefty. He swung the ball in where Hintz beat the Toros defense in the air Brent Becker style to give Cucuy a 4 goal lead. Now we decided it was time to turtle up and just maintain the lead. There was about 30 minutes left and we were gassed. Toros only managed to score one through the remainder of the game due to some serious effort on the defensive front.
Serious props go to the Cucuy defense for playing tight and active all game. Nick had a great stomach save on a shot that went far post where he held tight on the goal line. Kyle had one of his best games ever in regards to coming off his line collecting crosses played into the Cucuy 18, which prevented anything from developing. He also had some stud saves on long shots from the 18.
I’m sure everyone knows at this point, but Karol has started a job in Houston as of today, June 2. He will be with us for a couple more games over the next month, but sadly we’ll be losing him permanently in the near future. Dave Schluneker will be taking over management of Cucuy, so let’s show him the same level of dedication that we’ve given to Karol all these years.
Dave H.
Goals: Hintz (2), Scott D., Steve K.
MVP: All of Cucuy. Everyone individually stepped up and did our part in this game and we truly earned this win as a team.
Corinthians Show up Short
Cucuy FC - 2nd Corinthians FC 5:3 (0:0)
2nd Corinthians is that young team that you always dread playing because you know they’re going to run for the full 90 minutes. They play a mature style of soccer for their age and the main edge we have on them is body size, which allows us to control the game from a physical angle. However, we didn’t have to do so as much this Sunday because Corinthians started the game with 8 players on the field.
Despite playing several players down, Corinthians made good use of what they had. We weren’t playing urgently and as a result we didn’t score any goals in the first half even though we were up several men. The flood gates opened in the second half though. Corinthians defense started getting tired as you would expect and we started finding Cucuy players open in their 18. Scott Dollar scored two in the second half; another great header reminiscent of his Cinco goal, and an tight angle shot where he beat the keeper near post. Huczek had two for himself that came from hard, Huczek style shots where he was left unmarked in the box. He nearly completed his hat trick a couple of times. Cary had one of his own similar to Scott Dollar’s off angle goal, except Cary went far post.
Just as we went up 3 or 4 to nothing, Corinthians kept it interesting and scored a couple of their own. They had players trickle in one after another, and by the end of the game they were playing down only one man. They gave us a little scare and I think at one point it was 4-2. We gave ourselves a buffer again with 5-2, and then Corinthians relentlessly made it 5-3. We shut it down for a last couple of minutes to seal the win.
Dave H.
Goals: Scott D. (2), Huczek (2), Cary
MVP: Scott D.
2nd Corinthians is that young team that you always dread playing because you know they’re going to run for the full 90 minutes. They play a mature style of soccer for their age and the main edge we have on them is body size, which allows us to control the game from a physical angle. However, we didn’t have to do so as much this Sunday because Corinthians started the game with 8 players on the field.
Despite playing several players down, Corinthians made good use of what they had. We weren’t playing urgently and as a result we didn’t score any goals in the first half even though we were up several men. The flood gates opened in the second half though. Corinthians defense started getting tired as you would expect and we started finding Cucuy players open in their 18. Scott Dollar scored two in the second half; another great header reminiscent of his Cinco goal, and an tight angle shot where he beat the keeper near post. Huczek had two for himself that came from hard, Huczek style shots where he was left unmarked in the box. He nearly completed his hat trick a couple of times. Cary had one of his own similar to Scott Dollar’s off angle goal, except Cary went far post.
Just as we went up 3 or 4 to nothing, Corinthians kept it interesting and scored a couple of their own. They had players trickle in one after another, and by the end of the game they were playing down only one man. They gave us a little scare and I think at one point it was 4-2. We gave ourselves a buffer again with 5-2, and then Corinthians relentlessly made it 5-3. We shut it down for a last couple of minutes to seal the win.
Dave H.
Goals: Scott D. (2), Huczek (2), Cary
MVP: Scott D.
Cinco Gets the Best of Cucuy in 2014
Apologies to the Cucuy for taking a month to get these write
ups done.
Cinco didn’t yield the best results for us this year. We won 1 of our 3 games, which meant we
didn’t get to continue onto Sunday.
Unlike years past, the teams that we played in the 2014 tournament were
all teams we could have beaten.
Contributing factors to our loses included not playing together a game
as a team in several weeks leading up to the tournament and the fields at STAR
have degenerated to complete crap.
Regardless of our poor outcome, here’s a quick recap of each game.
Cucuy FC vs. Southpaw
United 0:2 (0:2)
Southpaw came out of the gates with a lot more steam than we
did, pressuring us from the get go.
There was an early goal scored on a scrappy cross into the box that
caught off guard us before we really got a flow going. Southpaw played fast and aggressive all game,
nothing we couldn’t have combated on a normal day, but maybe a game starting at
7:30 AM was just a little too early for us.
Another goal was scored later in the game that slips my memory.
Cucuy FC vs. Moya FC
0:1 (0:0)
Moya was the strongest team that we played in the
tournament, but it was also the strongest game we played in the
tournament. They had some serious speed
scattered throughout their lineup, making them tough to beat up top and tough
to defend against in back. The first
half ended in a tie, presenting no clear advantage to either team through the
first 45 minutes. Moya eventually wound
up scoring one in the second half, which was the only goal of the game.
Cucuy FC vs.
Islanders 5:3 (0:0)
It was unfortunate that Islanders were our last game of the
tourney. They were by far the weakest
team in our group, and had we played them and earned a win earlier in the day,
we might have had some added motivation to step up against either of the teams
from our first two games. By this point
of the day, we were physically tired and sluggish from the beers consumed
between games 2 and 3. Islanders were a
weak team and played like they had nothing to win (which they didn’t). Scott Dollar made his Cucuy scoring debut
with a hattrick. The most notable of his
three goals was a rocket header that was well placed off of a hard cross. Eddy and Cary had the other goals.
Dave H.
Tournament Goals: Scott D. (3), Cary, Eddy
Dave H.
Tournament Goals: Scott D. (3), Cary, Eddy
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