South Windsor’s soccer team’s opening game against Enfield was canceled due to the immense heat on Thursday September 7th. With the game rescheduled to about a month from now, the new season opener was against Rocky Hill on Saturday September 9th.
The Bobcats have gone through a significant change since last year’s season, losing twelve seniors,eight of them being starters. The team also is going into the season with a new formation, hoping to take advantage of the new group’s speed. The team adjusted during the preseason and appears to be doing pretty well, going 2-1-0 in the preseason. With only six returning seniors, only two or three of them who started last year.
¨The team this year is very inexperienced, and most of us [seniors] this year have not really gotten much play time other than Jake [Gattuso] and Drew [Monteserin]; this is my first time on the varsity team after taking two years off¨, said senior centerback, Alexander Ezedine.
The reality is that it’s our first game, and we expected mistakes, but as the season goes on we won’t have that as an excuse. Overall, we played well today, but we need to finish our chances and take advantage of our team’s speed more
— Senior centerback, Alex Ezedine
The team is relatively young, but their new formation seems to be promising. Junior, Tyler Romero scored the boys season opener with an unassisted goal. Senior goalkeeper Elijah Chaimovich had two saves throughout the game, and in the second half Rocky Hill tied up the score with a penalty scored by senior Jason Nadeau, ending the game 1-1.
The relatively young and inexperienced teams seem to be improving with every game, and the team’s eye-catching speed seems to be helping their attack. The boys followed up their Rocky Hil game playing Tolland on Tuesday September 5th and celebrated a 3-2 win.
