Final.

How'd I do?!

 

Nice job Colonels!!

 

Congrats to the Cru on a great season, and best of luck to their seniors as they graduate in the Spring.

Congrats Colonels and good luck in the final against Ryle. Got to see the first half and it looked like it was shaping up to be a fine game. Best of luck to a good group of graduating seniors for St Henry.

Horrible weather conditions to play soccer in, both teams struggled for long periods of the game. The same was true for the second half of the Ryle/HHS game, ugly. In conditions like this you just do the best you can.

I thought CCH settled in and found some energy after their first goal. Stegman buries a header off a second ball from a corner kick to put CCH up 1-0. CCH's second goal (in the second half) was the play of the game, just great soccer. Russo nutmegs a St Henry player then plays a perfect ball out in front of Lamb who takes it wide left pulling the St Henry defender and keeper with him then makes a great pass to the feet of Cole Stava who puts it in the back of the net for his 14th goal of the season, Lamb's 15th assist. These are the type of plays that win games for you, especially in this sort of weather conditions. Sanders gets St Henry on the board with under 3 minutes left in the game. And the rematch from 2015 is on.

Congratulations to St Henry on a good year and good luck to their seniors.

Nice call MTGL!

I thought St. Henry controlled possession for long periods of this game as CCH reverted to some bad form at times with the direct, long ball approach. With the exception of Schutt, the CCH midfield was badly outplayed in my opinion. The difference in the game was at the ends of the fields. The CCH defense was very strong as expected and really shut St. Henry down in the final third other than that late run by Sanders. Incredibly, up 2-0, CCH had defenders pushing forward with less than 5 minutes remaining, allowing the quick counter by St. Henry. Deja vu from 2014. How about some tactical and game awareness?

 

On the offensive end, CCH had finishers and St. Henry did not. I'd say 5-6 good chances for CCH that netted two goals. The Lamb to Stava goal was a very good one and shows why on a large field like Ryle's, Lamb needs to get out wide more and drive the endline. Overall, the best team won last night.

 

Ended a bit ugly as #8 for St. Henry blew a gasket at the end and received a straight red card I believe.

Congrats to Cov Cath! Good luck the rest of the way.

Sorry to see it end for all the Cru seniors. It's been a great ride.

 

Cru lost the game---but the

CRUnited Nation was there in full support in the cold rain.

 

Best soccer cheering section in NKY!

Edited October 21, 20169 yr by hoops5

I saw this one (with regard to controlling the match) going back and forth. Both teams struggled early, St Henry controlled for 15-20 minutes then CCH gets their first goal with about 12 minutes remaining in the first half and did a good job controlling the rest of the half. St Henry comes out to start the second half and does a good job pressuring CCH but their back line and Cody play great again denying everything. Then CCH scores with 27 minutes on the clock and gets a hold of the game again. A bad CCH turnover in their attacking third somehow allows St Henry to counter and they give up the lone St Henry goal with under 3 minutes. To me it was a game of 5 periods, St Henry controlling 2, CCH controlling 2 and 1 of just bad soccer by both teams but completely dictated by the weather conditions.

Surprised no one has mentioned this, from my view Foster (CCH) is fouled hard from behind in the box, should have been a PK. I heard someone say the St Henry defender may have gotten the ball, but it is my understanding of the rule, a tackle from behind is always a foul even if you get the ball.

 

Congrats to CCH on the win the still defending their title! Congrats to St Henry on a good season.

 

St Henry's student body turn out was impressive, great job! As for CCH, where were the Crazies? Get out and support your schoolmates on Saturday, no excuse.

I saw this one (with regard to controlling the match) going back and forth. Both teams struggled early, St Henry controlled for 15-20 minutes then CCH gets their first goal with about 12 minutes remaining in the first half and did a good job controlling the rest of the half. St Henry comes out to start the second half and does a good job pressuring CCH but their back line and Cody play great again denying everything. Then CCH scores with 27 minutes on the clock and gets a hold of the game again. A bad CCH turnover in their attacking third somehow allows St Henry to counter and they give up the lone St Henry goal with under 3 minutes. To me it was a game of 5 periods, St Henry controlling 2, CCH controlling 2 and 1 of just bad soccer by both teams but completely dictated by the weather conditions.

Surprised no one has mentioned this, from my view Foster (CCH) is fouled hard from behind in the box, should have been a PK. I heard someone say the St Henry defender may have gotten the ball, but it is my understanding of the rule, a tackle from behind is always a foul even if you get the ball.

 

Congrats to CCH on the win the still defending their title! Congrats to St Henry on a good season.

 

St Henry's student body turn out was impressive, great job! As for CCH, where were the Crazies? Get out and support your schoolmates on Saturday, no excuse.

 

I thought it was a clean, hard tackle from the side and not the back. I wouldn't have called it. He took way too long to play that ball and gave the defender a chance to tackle it away.

 

With that said, those officials really struggled overall IMO.

Tackle from behind is not automatically a foul. Just more difficult to do legally and carries a higher risk of being worse than a regular foul if it is a foul.

I agree with previous posts that St. Henry controlled a good portion of the game. I thought that they possessed the ball much better and their passing game was better for most of the game. I am not familiar with any of the players, but I was impressed with the athleticism of 17, 11(?), and 18 for Cov Cath. I thought that 17 controlled the defense very well, 17 distributed in the middle third well and stayed under control, and 18 plays HARD. 18 had a chance for another goal towards the end of the 2nd half that he just missed striking the ball clean. I thought it was a good no call on the slide. Where I was watching, I was even with the play and thought that he came in from the side. Colonel forward IMO should have taken a quicker touch and shot.

Was a little disappointed in the Colonel Crazy turnout, but was told by a teacher that last night was a football dinner and the start of the CCH/NDA play.

Towards the end of the game, 3 St. Henry students came over to the CovCath side looking for groinpull and were asked to leave by the CovCath faculty which I thought was funny because I imagine the students meant no harm whatsoever but the CovCath faculty had no idea what they were talking about.

I agree with previous posts that St. Henry controlled a good portion of the game. I thought that they possessed the ball much better and their passing game was better for most of the game. I am not familiar with any of the players, but I was impressed with the athleticism of 17, 11(?), and 18 for Cov Cath. I thought that 17 controlled the defense very well, 17 distributed in the middle third well and stayed under control, and 18 plays HARD. 18 had a chance for another goal towards the end of the 2nd half that he just missed striking the ball clean. I thought it was a good no call on the slide. Where I was watching, I was even with the play and thought that he came in from the side. Colonel forward IMO should have taken a quicker touch and shot.

Was a little disappointed in the Colonel Crazy turnout, but was told by a teacher that last night was a football dinner and the start of the CCH/NDA play.

Towards the end of the game, 3 St. Henry students came over to the CovCath side looking for groinpull and were asked to leave by the CovCath faculty which I thought was funny because I imagine the students meant no harm whatsoever but the CovCath faculty had no idea what they were talking about.

 

Are there assigned seats now at soccer games?

I agree with previous posts that St. Henry controlled a good portion of the game. I thought that they possessed the ball much better and their passing game was better for most of the game. I am not familiar with any of the players, but I was impressed with the athleticism of 17, 11(?), and 18 for Cov Cath. I thought that 17 controlled the defense very well, 17 distributed in the middle third well and stayed under control, and 18 plays HARD. 18 had a chance for another goal towards the end of the 2nd half that he just missed striking the ball clean. I thought it was a good no call on the slide. Where I was watching, I was even with the play and thought that he came in from the side. Colonel forward IMO should have taken a quicker touch and shot.

Was a little disappointed in the Colonel Crazy turnout, but was told by a teacher that last night was a football dinner and the start of the CCH/NDA play.

Towards the end of the game, 3 St. Henry students came over to the CovCath side looking for groinpull and were asked to leave by the CovCath faculty which I thought was funny because I imagine the students meant no harm whatsoever but the CovCath faculty had no idea what they were talking about.

 

LOL, I don't think they were looking for me but they did come over several times and let's be honest, they were looking to start some trouble w/ the CCH students that were at the game. Glad CCH actually had some faculty there to keep it under control. Maybe St. Henry should think about the same thing.

 

Regarding the players, you noted Schutt, Stava and Vogt, three of CCH's best players. I agree they all had good games and yes, Stava should have finished that chance that he had in the second half and normally he does.

My younger sister goes to St. Henry and my brother and I are both Cov Cath grads, so it was nice to see the Colonels get a win. I do agree that the students were probably trying to get a little rise out of the colonel faithful, but IMO I didn't think they were out of line walking over. I was in the front row of the stands and heard them asking "Where is groinpull?" and when the teachers asked them to leave, they did so respectfully and said see ya later to a couple of their colonel buddies. I can think of a couple times doing worse in the CCH student section

Tackle from behind is not automatically a foul. Just more difficult to do legally and carries a higher risk of being worse than a regular foul if it is a foul.

 

I thought it was a clean, hard tackle from the side and not the back. I wouldn't have called it. He took way too long to play that ball and gave the defender a chance to tackle it away.

 

With that said, those officials really struggled overall IMO.

 

Thanks to both for clarifying the rule and for giving another opinion. Like I said from my view which was behind the play, it looked like a tackle from behind. I do agree he took to long to play the ball.

Schutt, Stava, and Vogt did have good games (again) amongst others. I thought Cody (CCH keeper) also did well, he does a good job of reading the game/making good decisions and is strong player for them. Nice to see the Stava brothers on the field together for a few minutes. Both are quality players that play with passion and always play hard.