ORR 3 Wareham 1

   At Wareham

ORR 3,  Wareham 1

ORR.  Teddy Costa,  Max Houck,  Robby Magee
Wareham.  Arthur Mpofo

Old Rochester improved to 3-1-1 with a sloppy 3-1 victory over the Vikings of Wareham.   Wareham's Arthur Mpofo opened the scoring 30 seconds into the match with his tenacious play inside ORR's 18.  His cross careened off defender Chris Carando toward keeper Mike Pruchnik who tried to catch the wildly spinning ball.  Pruchnik lost his concentration dropping the ball behind him and knocking it into his own net giving Wareham a short lived lead.

It only took nine minutes for ORR to even things up when Teddy Costa scored his fifth goal in three games by taking a feed from Junior Captain, Robby Magee.  Max Houck scored the eventual game winner in the 25th minute when he collect a cross from Freshman defender Will Santos beating Wareham keeper Tyler Russell cleanly into the upper 90. 

The first half of the game was played pretty evenly as the 2-1 score indicates.   Wareham used the wind effectively to keep ORR at bay.  When the Bulldogs played intelligent, good things began to happen.  Early passes created opportunities for a lopsided goal differential and if not for Viking keeper Russsell this one would not have been close.  ORR out shot Wareham by a lopsided 21-2 advantage.  Many of the shots were on target but lacked the pace to beat Russell, but when it counted he came up big, stopping two point blank cannon shots by Paul Graves and one shot by Magee destined for the back of the net.   

As the wind picked up, the quality of play deteriorated with the players having a tough go of it trying to control their passes.    ORR adjusted late in the game switching to a more finesse game of short passes that in the 66th minute found Magee alone 22 yards in front the Wareham's goal.  Magee beat one defender with ease and let loose a cracker of a shot that gave Russell no chance of saving.

Coach Comments:

"Teddy Costa is a work horse on offense.  He frustrates opposing defender with his harassing play.  He is learning how to use his speed more intelligently and that is getting him lots of chances evidenced by his scoring the last three games.  I have no hesitation in awarding him the player of the game today.  No one else was close"

"Paul Graves, our other forward is beginning to find his form.  When he plays with confidence he is very dangerous.  He is right on the edge of a breakthrough and when that happens he is going to get lots of goals.

Chris Carando was a force in the defensive line today.  His calm personality and physical play are vital parts of the rookie defense that is still in a learning curve. 








JV.

Kyle Medeiros and Bret Noone  each scored 2 goals to lead the Bulldog JV squad to an 8-0 victory. 
Hunter Parker, Ryan Taylor,  Rocky Silva and Emil Assing each added a tally to salt away the win.

Old Rochester travels to Apponequet on Wednesday Sept. 19.