San Angelo Classic Soccer Tournament
SATURDAY, JAN. 26th, 2008
FIELD LOCATIONS TOURNAMENT RESULTS
Tournament Rules and Procedures: Group play, each game is full length (2 x 40 min.) Top two teams in each pool advance to semifinals on Saturday. Team listed first is home team and will wear light colored jerseys and provide game balls. Point system includes: Win = 6 pts. Just short of their goal Bobcats unable to defend home tourney title
For three games and almost 78 minutes of a fourth, the Central High School boys soccer team never trailed here at the 10th Annual San Angelo Soccer Classic. The final two minutes were a different story. Just when the championship game seemed destined for a scoreless tie at the end of regulation, Amarillo Palo Duro's Jose Chavez scored on a free kick from 35 yards out against a sluggish Central defense with 2:13 left in the game. The goal gave the Dons a 1-0 win and the tourney title, and it sent Central home thinking about what might have been. "It was a great shot, but the other thing is that we are taking too long to get our wall set up and our defense organized on set plays like that," Central head coach Tony Vu said. Last season the Bobcats had beaten Palo Duro 7-0 in the title game of this tournament. The late breakdown by the Bobcats underscored some troubling trends for the Bobcats (6-4) that Vu had noticed even as Central was beating most of its opponents this weekend. "We're really inconsistent with our play, night and day" Vu said. "We're going to have to figure something out, because we can't do this once district starts if we want to accomplish the goals we want to accomplish." District play is right around the corner for the Bobcats. They open 3-5A play by hosting Abilene Cooper on Saturday and will certainly head into that game with something to prove after Saturday's finish. The loss to Palo Duro soured what had started out as a great day for Central, which knocked off Lake View 3-0 in the semifinals. Courtney Costello scored a pair of goals in that game, and Larry Picasso added the other. Costello and Jeremy Cooper were all-tournament selections for the Bobcats. "We moved the ball around a lot against Lake View, and when we do that we play our best," Costello said. Against Amarillo, "we didn't play good at all. We didn't move the ball around. We didn't create opportunities to score." Lake View, meanwhile, after allowing three early goals to Central, shut down the Bobcats in the second half but wasn't able to keep that momentum going into the third-place game, which the Chiefs lost to Lubbock Monterey 4-2. Steven Smith and Ryan Panter scored the two goals for Lake View in that game. "I'm pretty satisfied," said Lake View's Johnny Harris, summing up the Chiefs' weekend, in which they won one, tied eventual champion Palo Duro 1-1, and lost two. "Central, they are a good team, so I wasn't disappointed in the Central game. The second half we didn't let them score, so I consider that a good half and gets us ready to start district. "We're not where we need to be to win a district championship, but we're where we need to be to make a run for the playoffs." Lake View (1-5-2) begins its district season Tuesday at Copperas Cove. 10th Annual San Angelo Classic Tournament Boys Saturday's results Semifinal Central 3, Lake View 0 Palo Duro def. Lubbock Monterey Consolation final Central JV 2, El Paso Burges 1 Third-place game Lubbock Monterey 4, Lake View 2 Championship Amarillo Palo Duro 1, Central 0
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