HANOVER HANDLES MONADNOCK 7-0 TO STAY UNBEATEN
The Marauder varsity earned a one-sided 7-0 victory over a road-weary Monadnock squad Wednesday, improving their record to 8-0-1 and maintaining Hanover’s nine-game streak of scoreless games.
Wave upon wave of Marauder strikers rained 36 shots on or at the Husky goal, while the Hanover defense held the visitors without a shot on goal. Six different players scored, and some of the goals were worthy of a highlight reel.
It took a while for the Marauders to get on the scoreboard, but Hanover’s patient probing began to bear fruit, the stream of goals was a steady one. Eric Barthold got the home team on the board in the nineteenth minute, heading home a long cross from overlapping left back Sam Peterson for his sixth goal of the season. Two minutes later, Henry Caldwell collected the first of his two goals on the day, hitting a ripper off the left upright from outside the penalty area. The third goal of the half came with less than three minutes left on the clock, and it was a carbon copy of the first. Peterson, who has become increasingly devastating with his overlapping runs down the left flank, hammered another long cross across the face of the goal, and junior Yosef Osheyack met the ball at the back post and hammering a header into the side netting for his team-leading eighth goal of the season.
Switching sides for the second half did little to diminish the bombardment of the Monadnock goal. Six minutes after play resumed, Cal Felicetti notched his first goal of the season following one of Hanover’s thirteen corner kicks. Lou Gemunden had hit one of his patented rockets across the box, and after it was knocked around, it fell to the feet of Felicetti, who had drifted to the top of the 18. Acting like the striker he claims to be, he chipped an unstoppable one-timer into the upper left corner for a 4-0 advantage.
The starting strikers found their way into the match after twenty minutes had elapsed, and shortly afterwards Casey Maue collected his fourth goal of the season, taking a nice feed from Osheyack and working free for a turf cutter into the far corner. It was time to sit the starters again, and in came Caldwell and Eric Jayne, just in time to notch a few more goals. Everyone in the match at that point was playing some of the best soccer of the day, unselfishly moving the ball. Aussie Cyrus characterized this sort of play, and after moving at will through the Monadnock defense, he dished a sweet pass to Jayne, who finished clinically for his fifth goal of the season. Six minutes later (and less than a minute from time), Caldwell collected his second goal of the day volleying home a wonderful cross from Gemunden off the left upright. It was Lou’s fifth assist of the season, tying him for second on the team. Ben Harwick and Sam Gest shared the season’s ninth shutout without seeing a shot.
Hoping to find stiffer resistance from a Hollis-Brookline team that has beaten both Lebanon and Souhegan, the Marauders continue their homestand on Saturday. Kickoff is at noon.
