Gungas vs. Hogger's
Gill, MA - The Big Blue hit the road to go up against defending champions NMH. On the day, the home team pressed hard and demonstrated why they are champions with smooth movement on and off the ball. NMH dominated the first 15 minutes of the game, but Big Blue would take over the passion of the ball and begin dominating possession and controlling the game's pace. The Big Blue could have gone up one during that period, but Zane Matraji's '24 attempt hit the crossbar. Against the run of play, the home team would earn a free-kick that was initially well-defended, but the rebounded landed on a clever NMH player who played a through ball into the box to an unmarked teammate who hit the first goal of the game and just like that NMH was up one-nil. Both teams kept battling in the first half, but 1-0 the score would remain into the first half. In the second stanza, The Big Blue went looking for the equalizer and, in doing so, moved some of its pieces around, and the gamble initially worked; that is, until the home team once again would expose one of our defensive weaknesses to make the score two-nil final score.
The play of Garrett Holman '24 was fantastic today, as was the space of Jack Alexander '25, who made great saves throughout the contest.
We appreciate your support today. Hope to see you at our next contest vs. Cushing on Wednesday.