RYLE VARSITY vs  PULASKI SOUTHWESTERN WARRIORS  8/22/09

Final Score  RYLE 5 PULASKI SOUTHWESTERN 1

The “Jolly Roger of Ryle” voyaged some three hours to the Tennessee border Saturday where they fought two engagements with Southeastern Kentucky sides and came out victorious on both accounts and levels.  The first match had the Raiders facing off against the Warriors of Pulaski County’s Southwestern High School out of Somerset.  The Raiders’ “cannon” found its mark early and often in this one with Daisuke Imai punching through twice in the first 20 minutes of play only to be followed up by “Freddie Frosh” Tyrus Sciarra to make the tally 3-0 at the intermission.  The team’s leading scorer Dillon McConvey took an assist from Sciarra with 15 minutes left in the second stanza and buried it in the back of the net to place the game fully out of reach for the Somerset side.  Defender Rob Poehlman provided the icing on the Raider dessert by scoring his first goal of the year with four minutes left to make the final stand at 5-1.

Special notation: As if to remind us all that this thing we do is just a game and that it ranks very far down the totem pole of Life’s priorities; the Warriors of Pulaski played the entire first half with only 10 players on the field to honor their teammate who only Tuesday of this week was involved in a very serious automobile accident.  The young man’s life and ability to do such simple things as participate in sports or even to be mobile are very much in doubt right now and any and all prayers of support would be much appreciated from the soccer loving and child-loving communities!

RECORD: 2-0-1 

RYLE VARSITY vs CORBIN REDHOUNDS

Final Score RYLE 2 CORBIN 0

With a long day’s travel, coupled with playing the second match in less than eight hours against an opponent who had given the Raiders fits last season in Walton’s Bearcat Park (Ryle edged the Redhounds 1-0 in that one), the second match promised to be a much tighter affair.  This scenario played out exactly as the halftime score was knotted in a scoreless draw.  For the third time in four games however the game turned when “soccer-gnat” Grant Kennedy slipped into the box with the ball only to be taken down by a Red-Dawg defender with 27 minutes left in the game.  For the third time in four games big brother McConvey made the bad guys pay for pushing around his “little Pirate brother” with a well placed PK to give the Raiders what would be the winning edge in this one.  McConvey was then the benefactor of a corner kick by junior Brett Uminger (assist) to add an insurance goal and put a smile on the “Raider-man’s” one-eyed visage.  Sophomore Chris Froschauer garnered his first shutout of the season in goal.  

RECORD: 3-0-1 

RYLE SOCCER 

VS

DIXIE HEIGHTS

Aug 25

RYLE 4 - Dixie 0

As the sun sank across the midfield of Borland Stadium, Dillon McConvey continued to pad his scoring leadership of the Varsity Raiders as he took a Daisuke Imai pass and put the “bulge in the old onion bag” with just five minutes gone in the contest.  It was Grant Kennedy’s winged feet however that would provide the scoring leadership on the night as he knocked in two goals with laser drives that just caught the top of the Colonel netting before registering on the scoreboard.  Senior football placekicker Eric Pederson would close out the scoring off a Tyrus Sciarra pass to make the final tally 4-0 for the good guys.  Junior Matt See took honors for the shutout; his first of the season.

RECORD 4-0-1