Carman drops two more games as season nears end - Carman Valley Leader

Carman drops two more games as season nears end


By Gene Still
Friday September 01, 2006

Carman Valley Leader — Two more games and two more losses for the Carman Kickers who are left on the outside looking in as far as a playoff berth was concerned.

Lusitania 4 Kickers 1
Carman travelled to Winnipeg last Wednesday to face the first place Lusitania Revolution.
And the Revolution controlled most of the play and it showed on the final scoreboard as they came away with a 4-1 victory.
"We played hesitant in the first half," Hoogerdijk said.
However thanks to some outstanding goaltending the Carman net courtesy of Rich Vanderveen, the final outcome could have been much worse.
"Richie was amazing, making some outstanding saves," Hoogerdijk said. "They had lots of scoring chances. But Richie was standing on his head to make saves in the first half especially."
Despite Vanderveen's best efforts, that wasn't enough to prevent Lusitania from earning the win and the end result was never really in doubt.
The visitors did have a brief offensive territorial burst in play but only after the Revolution had taken a commanding three-goal lead.
"When we got down 3-0 and then that's when we started playing really hard and started to come on a bit," Hooegerdijk said. "The guys started to turn it around at the tail end but it was too little, too late."
Lusitania made it 4-0 before Carman's Stephen Melvin scored on a penalty kick.

Tri-S 1 Kickers 0
The Kickers returned to town last Saturday afternoon for their final home game of the 2006 season at Carman Collegiate.
But Tri-S Strike Force spoiled the Kickers' plans to go out on a winning note at home.
Despite their less than inspiring performance, Carman went into half-time in a scoreless tie with Tri-S.
"For whatever reason we came out completely flat. It wasn't a good way at all for us to play," Hoogerdijk said. "I don't think we really had what you could call a single good scoring chance in that entire first half."
Looking to regroup during the break, the coach said the players were expecting to come out much stronger during the final 45 minutes but that never really materialized.
"At the half a lot of our guys were saying that 'it's a team we should beat,' and they're right, I believe that but that's not the way things turned out," he said.
But there was no rally in the second half for the Kickers as Tri-S got what turned out to be the contest's only goal. And they retreated into a defensive shell which limited Carman's scoring opportunities and resulted in the Kickers eleventh loss of the season against only two victories and two ties.
"We just couldn't get a goal," Hoogerdijk said. "It was kind of disappointing especially with that being our final home game of the year."