On the road vs. Pelicans
Winsor, CT, the Big Blue hopped on a bus this past Friday for a 6:30 PM game against the Pelicans of Loomis Chaffee. During the first 45 minutes of play, both teams showed great composure with the ball and organization. Despite a solid defensive effort by the Big Blue, the home team would go up on the scoreboard first after the pelicans #7 delivered a cross from the right side of the 18-yard box to the opposite post to find an incoming and open #11, who finished a beautiful header past Jack Alexander '25 who on the day was sensational. At the half, the Big Blue found itself down one-nil and looking for answers. In the second stanza, the Big Blue moved its pieces throughout the 45 minutes of play to create and find space and time for our attackers. With less than 10 minutes left to play, the strategy paid off as an off-the-bench Rafiq Kasumov '25 would find an open Ellis Denby '24, who calmly collected the ball and fired a hard shot met by an excellent outcoming Loomis GK. However, the pelican GK could not hang on to the ball, and Denby followed his shot, recovered the ball, and buried his second attempt to the far post. The last 10 minutes of the game saw back-and-forth action from both teams, but the score remained intact. The Big Blue perhaps played its best 45 minutes of the season so far, and it was great to see the team pull together and come out with a tie in a difficult place to play. Thank you to those who came out to support us. We hope to see you at our next contest vs. Holderness.