Carolina Forest came out very flat at the beginning and Waccamaw exploited an inexperienced backline by putting in 2 after 30 minutes, despite some great saves by senior goalkeeper Dylan McCarthy, including tipping a vicious dipping volley from 25 yards out onto the crossbar and over after being caught off his line. CF then began to compose themselves in the dying minutes of the first half and were rewarded by pulling one back. A shot by senior captain Noah Lascell was deflected by a Waccamaw defender into the path of TK Ashenafi whose initial effort was brilliantly saved, as was the rebound by freshman midfielder Ivo Parreira which appeared to have crossed the line, but was again spilled into the path of Ashenafi who made no mistakes from 3 yards out.
The second half was all Carolina Forest. A CF corner kick was poorly cleared and fell to TK who trapped with his right thigh and volleyed into the top corner with his left foot from 6 yards out. Noah Lascell then grabbed the winner after some neat passing in the midfield resulted in a perfectly weighted through ball for Lascell to run on to and tap into the far corner past the onrushing Waccamaw goalkeeper. Minutes later TK finished his hat trick to put the gloss on a very strong second half for CF.
Good luck to both teams in their seasons, and congratulations to Waccamaw for beating Myrtle Beach in MB 3-1 days before.
