Missing a striker and not quite clicking offensively, Charleston Catholic's boys soccer team still had plenty of steam Monday to dust off a youthful Nitro squad 4-0 at Schoenbaum Stadium.
Nitro's Ian McGill (left) and Charleston Catholic's Mitchell Stanley fight for possession in Monday's match at Schoenbaum Stadium.
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Missing a striker and not quite clicking offensively, Charleston Catholic's boys soccer team still had plenty of steam Monday to dust off a youthful Nitro squad 4-0 at Schoenbaum Stadium.
The result gave the Irish a 3-1 start as they prepare for a weekend trip to Martinsburg. With any luck, they will welcome striker Tommy Trupo, who missed Monday's game with an injury.
"I thought we played pretty well tonight. Our execution was not quite where I wanted it to be," said Catholic coach Keith Hutcheson. "We didn't play as crisp as I like. But we were working on some new things, and Tommy wasn't able to play. So we were trying a couple of new guys up top, and it worked its way on out.
"The end result is good, but not quite what I wanted to see."
The defending Class AA-A champions did belt out 20 shots, 11 of them on goal. The game's highlight goal was the first one, a quick counterattack in the ninth minute that finished when Keiffer Reed converted a long pass. Domenic Cipollone made it 2-0 at the 18th minute.
The Wildcats (1-2-1) made Irish goalkeeper Tanner Jameson make a single soft save in the first half, but did put some heat on in the first 20 minutes in the second half.
That effort included six corner kicks, four in succession, but the best the Wildcats could manage were a couple good headers and a long shot that went wide. Jameson ended with four saves, alert but unspectacular plays.
And even in the Wildcats' strongest stretch, Catholic scored a rather soft goal in the 54th minute to make it 3-0. L.J. Stanley started that with a long free kick into the penalty box, with the ball bouncing around before Sam Revercomb headed it to Adam Fox, who headed the ball into the goal.
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Charleston Catholic blanks Nitro
Missing a striker and not quite clicking offensively, Charleston Catholic's boys soccer team still had plenty of steam Monday to dust off a youthful Nitro squad 4-0 at Schoenbaum Stadium.
The result gave the Irish a 3-1 start as they prepare for a weekend trip to Martinsburg. With any luck, they will welcome striker Tommy Trupo, who missed Monday's game with an injury.
"I thought we played pretty well tonight. Our execution was not quite where I wanted it to be," said Catholic coach Keith Hutcheson. "We didn't play as crisp as I like. But we were working on some new things, and Tommy wasn't able to play. So we were trying a couple of new guys up top, and it worked its way on out.
"The end result is good, but not quite what I wanted to see."
The defending Class AA-A champions did belt out 20 shots, 11 of them on goal. The game's highlight goal was the first one, a quick counterattack in the ninth minute that finished when Keiffer Reed converted a long pass. Domenic Cipollone made it 2-0 at the 18th minute.
The Wildcats (1-2-1) made Irish goalkeeper Tanner Jameson make a single soft save in the first half, but did put some heat on in the first 20 minutes in the second half.
That effort included six corner kicks, four in succession, but the best the Wildcats could manage were a couple good headers and a long shot that went wide. Jameson ended with four saves, alert but unspectacular plays.
And even in the Wildcats' strongest stretch, Catholic scored a rather soft goal in the 54th minute to make it 3-0. L.J. Stanley started that with a long free kick into the penalty box, with the ball bouncing around before Sam Revercomb headed it to Adam Fox, who headed the ball into the goal.
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Missing a striker and not quite clicking offensively, Charleston Catholic's boys soccer team still had plenty of steam Monday to dust off a youthful Nitro squad 4-0 at Schoenbaum Stadium.
The result gave the Irish a 3-1 start as they prepare for a weekend trip to Martinsburg. With any luck, they will welcome striker Tommy Trupo, who missed Monday's game with an injury.
"I thought we played pretty well tonight. Our execution was not quite where I wanted it to be," said Catholic coach Keith Hutcheson. "We didn't play as crisp as I like. But we were working on some new things, and Tommy wasn't able to play. So we were trying a couple of new guys up top, and it worked its way on out.
"The end result is good, but not quite what I wanted to see."
The defending Class AA-A champions did belt out 20 shots, 11 of them on goal. The game's highlight goal was the first one, a quick counterattack in the ninth minute that finished when Keiffer Reed converted a long pass. Domenic Cipollone made it 2-0 at the 18th minute.
The Wildcats (1-2-1) made Irish goalkeeper Tanner Jameson make a single soft save in the first half, but did put some heat on in the first 20 minutes in the second half.
That effort included six corner kicks, four in succession, but the best the Wildcats could manage were a couple good headers and a long shot that went wide. Jameson ended with four saves, alert but unspectacular plays.
And even in the Wildcats' strongest stretch, Catholic scored a rather soft goal in the 54th minute to make it 3-0. L.J. Stanley started that with a long free kick into the penalty box, with the ball bouncing around before Sam Revercomb headed it to Adam Fox, who headed the ball into the goal.
The "double-header" didn't sit well with Nitro coach Vince Wardell, as sophomore goalkeeper Lee Klocke didn't come off his line aggressively. But Wardell chalked it up to youth, of which he has plenty.
"We're just trying to grow," Wardell said. "At one time out there, we didn't have a senior, and I had one junior . . . Tonight in the second half, I liked what I saw, and we can build on that. We'll be fine."
Playing his fourth varsity game, Klocke had seven saves before getting pulled in the 66th minute. Revercomb scored in the 71st minute on a bad angle against Alec Bailey, a freshman who was playing his first game in goal in four years.
Nitro is in a stretch of playing six games in two weeks, and plays at Ripley tonight. That kicks off at 8 p.m., after the schools play a girls game.
Catholic has beaten George Washington, Washington and Nitro, and has lost to Princeton.
"We play a pretty AAA-laden schedule," Hutcheson said.
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Charleston Catholic blanks Nitro
Missing a striker and not quite clicking offensively, Charleston Catholic's boys soccer team still had plenty of steam Monday to dust off a youthful Nitro squad 4-0 at Schoenbaum Stadium.
The result gave the Irish a 3-1 start as they prepare for a weekend trip to Martinsburg. With any luck, they will welcome striker Tommy Trupo, who missed Monday's game with an injury.
"I thought we played pretty well tonight. Our execution was not quite where I wanted it to be," said Catholic coach Keith Hutcheson. "We didn't play as crisp as I like. But we were working on some new things, and Tommy wasn't able to play. So we were trying a couple of new guys up top, and it worked its way on out.
"The end result is good, but not quite what I wanted to see."
The defending Class AA-A champions did belt out 20 shots, 11 of them on goal. The game's highlight goal was the first one, a quick counterattack in the ninth minute that finished when Keiffer Reed converted a long pass. Domenic Cipollone made it 2-0 at the 18th minute.
The Wildcats (1-2-1) made Irish goalkeeper Tanner Jameson make a single soft save in the first half, but did put some heat on in the first 20 minutes in the second half.
That effort included six corner kicks, four in succession, but the best the Wildcats could manage were a couple good headers and a long shot that went wide. Jameson ended with four saves, alert but unspectacular plays.
And even in the Wildcats' strongest stretch, Catholic scored a rather soft goal in the 54th minute to make it 3-0. L.J. Stanley started that with a long free kick into the penalty box, with the ball bouncing around before Sam Revercomb headed it to Adam Fox, who headed the ball into the goal.
