Nick Rotolo

Redskins beat Dodge 3-1

In a battle of undefeated teams at Memorial Stadium in Dodge City the Redskin soccer teams comes home with a 3-1 win. The game lived up to the hype of two teams that have started off the season hot and played some very close and intense games over the last few years. First half was back and forth with both teams only coming up with a couple shots on goal and a lot of physical play. When the horn sounded to end the first half the score was 0-0. Both teams reset at half time and when the second half got started the intensity ramped up even more from two teams that wanted to win. 13:03 into the second half D’Alessandro Chavira got taken out just outside the box which led to a free kick and yellow card for Dodge City. Senior Josh Garcia took advantage and found the back of the net to give LHS the 1-0 lead. The next 20 minutes the score stayed 1-0 in favor of the Redskins and the game just kept getting more intense and physical and led to many fouls and multiple yellow cards for both teams. The Redskins had a misplay in getting the ball cleared and Dodge capitalized to tie the game up a 1, 33:40 into the second half. Redskins kept their composure after the goal and less than a minute later drew another penalty just outside the box. Josh Garcia lined up to take it again and found the back of the net for the second time in the game. Redskin’s back line came up strong in stopping many late attacks. With less than 3 minutes left in the game Dodge got called for another foul outside the box and this time Senior D’Alessandro Chavira put the free kick in the back of the net to seal the win. The LHS defense defended Dodge corners and free kicks very well led by Aron Duque manning the back line. If the attack did get past them Diego Flores was in the right position to make the save and keep them from adding any goals.

This moves the soccer team to 6-0 and 2-0 in the WAC. Another big game comes quickly as Garden City travels to Liberal on Thursday.