Corey
Bodden
JMC
303 Assignment 4
Ryan Forde and Scott Doney secured
the first goals for Marshall men’s soccer, but it was not enough to secure a
victory on Sunday against the Liberty Flames as the game ended in a 2-2 tie
after two overtimes.
A handball by Liberty near its own
goal in the 32nd minute led to a penalty kick for Forde, sophomore from London,
England. Forde hit the back of the net to score Marshall’s (0-2-1) first goal
of the season and tied the game at 1-1 after Liberty (2-0-1) struck first at
Hoops Family Field at Veterans Memorial Soccer Complex in the 27th minute with
a goal by Bay Kurtz, freshman from Crown Point, Indiana, after an assist from
Blessing Tahuona, junior from Harare, Zimbabwe, in the 27th minute.
“I think we broke the ice today,” head
coach Bob Gray said of the first goals of the year. “It was like getting the
monkey off your back to get a goal. We just have to be a little more efficient
when we get into the final third and especially when we get into the box.”
Troy Reeves, freshman from Keller, from
Keller, Texas, took the ball himself and scored to give Liberty the lead in the
54th minute. Liberty seemed to be in control of the match until Doney, freshman
from Tauranga, New Zealand, received a pass from Matt Freeman, junior from
Irmo, S.C., in the 6-yard box and scored the equalizer in the 84th minute.
With the teams tied 2-2 sudden death
overtime decided the match with a 10-minute period followed by another if
necessary.
Marshall controlled both overtime
periods getting off five shots compared to zero from the Flames, but none of
the five shots slipped past Liberty goalkeeper Scott Sutarik and Marshall was
unable to secure its first victory of the season in front of 414 spectators.
“I think we just need to keep
working. We need to keep practicing,” Forde said of what the team needs to do
to win a match. “We’re still a relatively young team, mostly juniors and
freshmen, so (we) still got a lot to learn. If we keep practicing together
hopefully things will gel.”
Marshall
outshot Liberty 20-9 and secured more corner kicks 6-5 despite Gray changing
the line-up multiple times.
“They’re
(Liberty) one of the top teams in the Big South (Conference), but I thought it
was our game to win today,” Gray said. “We need a lot of work. We’re
young. We’re really trying to find the
right combinations out there. We found out a little bit about ourselves today.”
Gray
and the Thundering Herd will look for its first victory on Monday Sept. 15 as
Appalachian State (0-3-1) invades Hoops Family Field.
“We’ve
got seven days off, which is a blessing,” Gray said. “App. State will be a good
test for us, but with the seven days of work that we have maybe we can do some
of the right things that’ll produce a victory for us.”
Corrections made:
1. In the lead paragraph I inferred
the team scored the goals rather than the actual players. I should have
identified the players in the lead.
2. I did not list the class the
Liberty players I mentioned are. (Freshman, etc.) Easy fix and lazy mistake as
I had the information in my game notes provided by the sports information
department.
3. I made the apple/oranges
mistake. I mentioned the team scored its first goals of the season, but did not
mention who scored the goals for Marshall and instead talked about Liberty
first.
4. I did not properly stylize “head
coach.” Easy fix now that I for sure know the correct way to do so.
5. I failed to mention the high
drama of overtime until midway through the story. That is an important fact and
would draw the readers in to see how it got to that point.
6. I used an editorial phrase “Unfortunately
for Marshall...”. A silly mistake and an easy fix to not editorialize in any
story not an editorial.
