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Heartbroken

From The Rock Hill Herald

By Barry Byers

http://www.heraldonline.com/102/story/25977.html

Here are a couple of pictures from the Spring Valley/Northwestern match on Saturday, courtesy of Bem Rivers Productions.

National Anthem
http://scsoccer.com/images/2007-SVvsNW-4AStateFinals.jpg

Spring Valley's Thomas Clements looks upfield as Northwestern's Michael Antinoro and Vance Benson pursue the ball with the Vikings' Michael Czulinski and Coach Dom Wren of the Trojans looking on
http://scsoccer.com/images/2007-SVvsNW-4AStateFinals2.jpg

It was an amazing game to say the least.
Enzo was nothing short of spectacular, as expected, but SV just made the most of their chances.
Cant say enough about how well Jenkins played...he was a wall.

Bassett, I think the reason everyone thinks Vance played poorly is because of the hype he recieves. He's a talented player who works extremely hard but he did not effect the game a way a player of his so called caliber should have. He wasn't awful, he just was average. In such a big game you would hope one of the team's most recognizable players would do more than just win some headers and go hard in on tackles.

You can't underestimate how important it was for SV to score the first goals. The goals allowed SV to play more conservatively on defense and not expose themselves too much to NW's attacks. A packed in defense against NW stood a much better chance defending the goal than potential break-away attacks from NW's deadly forwards. If SV had to have played catch-up its likely that NW would have exploited the situatiom as it did in their first match this year.

I saw the game last night and though I'm happy for SV to finally get a ring, I couldn't help but think how cruel the sport of soccer can be. NW controlled the game and to come up on the short end, go figure!

Enzo is everything people have said he was. Unbelievable talent! I didn't see much of Kropp, but felt that Benson was very active. Also impressed me to see him standing with his younger brother while SV received their medals. I thought that the Clark kid did outstanding. Defense for NW was pitiful!

SV looked like grown men out there. Some big boys! The freshman Parris, whew! How big will that kid be in three years? Hartvigsen (sp?) and Czulinski (sp?) were impressive. I kept thinking that Jenkins would have a rebound go in because he rarely caught the ball cleanly, but he kept it out when it mattered most and was under pressure all night. Penland made a great long pass to setup the first score.

Some great physical soccer and yet a lot of flair, too! Fun game to watch. No losers last night for sure. Congrats to both teams.

PS - I liked the Monday night atmosphere. Wish the HSL could stagger the state championships out beginning on Wednesday for the A schools, Thursday, for AA, and so forth. Any chances of this ever happening? The reason I ask is because it's tough to stay out all afternoon and evening on Friday for the girls games and also doing the same for the boys on Saturday. Plus, it would allow everyone to play at the more customary evening/night times (6/8 pm).

Great suggestion Cola Fan, I agree!

I didn't see much of Kropp<<<

SV player parker arnold #13 shut him down most of the time

did any of ya'll see enzo hit the ball with the bottom of his cleats in mid air from behind right after SV scored there 2nd goal, that was pretty cool