Loudoun Wins in Tight Matchup
By Paul Boyer | November 1, 2008 at 4:34 pm
From the first minute to the last, Loudoun led the match against BRYC today. Gio scored in the first minute off an assist by Owen. Then in the third minute Owen was there to poke it into the net to make it 2-0. BRYC scored in the 16th minute and then we got another goal by Gio in the 21st minute to make it 3-1 going into half time.
BRYC made it close in the 36th minute with another goal and Loudoun went on to hold the one goal lead until the final whistle finally blew.
Great game guys. Some certain goals went just over the crossbar which would have helped us parents rest a little easier on the sidelines. Last game of the season is tomorrow. Keep up the energy.
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Great First Half…
By Paul Boyer | October 19, 2008 at 9:02 pm
… where’d you go the second half? Loudoun had a great first half game against REST today with goals by Gio, Tim, and Remy off an Owen assist. Felt pretty good until REST scored in the 35th minute. Then we knew something was up. The clock moved way too slowly with them scoring again in the 47th minute and then Loudoun was called for a penalty in the box which allowed REST to score the tying goal in the 55th minute. Loudoun had some other near misses that should have been goals, but we will have to settle for a tie and one point.
Oh and by the way, what a great field. Don’t tell anyone.
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OK, Well, That Was a Defeat
By Paul Boyer | October 5, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Remember how I was sayin’ that yesterday’s matchup wasn’t a defeat and all? Today’s matchup against VYS was a defeat, plain and simple. Let’s see… 2nd minute, them. 26th minute, them. 29th minute, them. 33rd minute, them. 40th minute, them. 57th minute, them. Whoops, forgot a 43rd minute melee when I think someone bopped the ball to someone who bopped it to Nate who bopped it to Nathan who bopped it into their goal. End result was a 6-1 loss to the VYS on a crazy-to-get-to field behind some office building somewhere. [Thanks for the field, Capital One!]
Like Journey sings, “When you learn to lose, you know what it takes…” blah, blah, blah. Yes, I’ve seen the future of Loudoun 98B Black soccer and it looks like a stong, aggressive defense with surefooted offensive skills. Hopefully the future will arrive when we meet Reston in 2 weeks.
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Loudoun Wins 9/10ths Against Ashburn?
By Paul Boyer | October 4, 2008 at 11:55 am
Have you ever heard the saying, “Possession is nine-tenths of the law?” If that is true, then Loudoun laid down the law against Ashburn this morning. The ball stayed on Ashburn’s defensive half for the majority of the game. But unfortunately on a couple of those rare occasions when it did squirt away, Ashburn was able to pop it into the goal plus once more on a handball-in-the-box penalty kick to “defeat” Loudoun by a score of three goals to none. Loudoun perhaps got overly offensive and strayed away from the defensive end a little too far on those occasions. Several goal attempts by Loudoun were either blocked or strayed just wide of the post. A good game to watch but on a field with long, dewy grass making for very slow movement.
The chronology went like this: Ashburn scored in the 8th minute. Then again on the penalty kick in the 37th minute and finally in the 58th minute as Loudoun threw everything on offense. This is one that could have easily gone the other way.
We’re very proud of the way our Loudoun B team played against Ashburn’s A team this morning. Way to go guys. As Journey sings, “When you learn to lose, you know what it takes to win.” But if you were there, you’d say Loudoun came away winners. Here come da’ judge!
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OK, Time for a New Rainout Bureaucrat
By Paul Boyer | September 28, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Who exactly is in charge of closing Loudoun fields due to rain? What county bureaucrat makes these decisions? This person needs to be fired. They work for us, remember?
Look at the other NCSL games that WERE played today and just in the G division of the U10 league:
| 369 | N9948 GRFL Madrid | vs. | N9930 BRYC Arsenal White | Lockmeade Park |  4:30 pm |
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| 370 | N9906 CYA REAL ‘98 Purple | vs. | N9962 REST 98 United | Franklin MS #2 |  1:00 pm |
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| 371 | N9950 SYA Vipers | vs. | N9973 FRED FCF Academy White | Kincheloe #4 | 1:30 pm | |
| 372 |  |
N9980 VBSC Lightning | vs. | N9908 VYS Red Bulls | Kincheloe #10 | 9:00 am |
There are untold hundreds of other games being played AROUND Loudoun county yesterday and today, just not WITHIN Loudoun county.
Normally when all of the fields in a county are closed due to rain, you’d think it would be raining. Oh no, not here in Loudoun. The sun is shining today and it is actually quite warm and dry. But we are not playing soccer because of some person’s bad decision. Somebody somewhere needs to ease off the trigger just a little and allow for an occasion where the players, instead of tromping through a washboard field covered in dust, actually get a little moisture on their shoes.
Update: My neighbor’s son played FOOTBALL on a Loudoun school field today.
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Loudoun 4, SYA 1, Dragonflies 1000
By Paul Boyer | September 21, 2008 at 7:17 pm
My mom said she had seen about 3 dragonflies before today. Hyperbole perhaps. Now she can say see’s seen thousands. Loudoun successfully defended off both SYA and dragonflies in grand style today. The Kincheloe fields had something magical in the air buzzing over our heads. Alfred Hitchcock might have even gotten an idea for a movie from seeing all of the dragonflies. Fortunately, they weren’t biting and neither was SYA. We kinda knew Loudoun would do well when in the 1st minute Rudra scored off a Gio assist. Then 14 minutes later, Nathan scored off an assist by Owen to make it 2-0 which is where it stayed until the half. Loudoun struck again immediately after the next kickoff when Gio scored off an assist by Tim in the 31st minute. Somehow, the demon spheroid slipped by our keeper in the 49th minute making it 3-1. Then just prior to the final whistle, Rudra took the ball all the way to the back of the net in the 59th minute giving Loudoun the win over SYA 4-1.
Great game guys. The score belies how well Loudoun actually looked as we could have easily seen more Loudoun goals had the ball come off the foot at a lower angle.
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Nice win today. Loudoun 4, VBSC 1
By Paul Boyer | September 20, 2008 at 7:15 pm
How many shots does it take to get a goal? shot. Shot. SHOT. SHOT!!! SSHHOOTTTT. !!!GOAL!!! Loudoun looked fantastic on all fronts today, except in getting that demon spheroid somewhere other than in their goalkeeper’s hands in the first half. Attempt after attempt after attempt in the first half yielded nothing but putting the ball into their 7-foot tall goalkeeper’s hands (OK I exaggerate, 6 feet 11 inches.)
Anyway…
I saw great GREAT passes, excellent foot skills, beautiful one touches, and some nice bringdowns from high altitude along with an inpenetrable defense that gave Loudoun the easy win over VBSC. Whatever coach Evert said to the boys at the half sure must have worked because they came out and scored with a Gio kick into the goal in the 30th minute followed by a Nathan pass to Gio to a goal in the 37th minute followed by a Nate pass to Nathan to a goal in the 49th minute followed by a Nate pass to Gio to a goal in the 51st minute. Their 6 feet 11 inch goal keeper was replaced in the 2nd half by someone more normal sized, which may have been a contributing factor. The 6 feet 11 inch boy also scored their only goal in the 57th minute which is where the match stayed until the three short whistle blasts. Bring on the human growth hormone pills, folks, they’re growing them big at VBSC.
But seriously, nice game guys. Keep up the drills because the skills are paying off.
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Winning
By Paul Boyer | September 14, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Play this new Journey song What It Takes To Win while you browse these photos.
Leading
Fear
GOAL!!!
Cheering
Winners
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Wow. Now THAT was a great game.
By Paul Boyer | September 14, 2008 at 8:18 pm
That was certainly one of those games I wish I would have videotaped because we need to see it again to believe it. Loudoun defeated Great Falls Madrid this afternoon in a stunner. Stunner for them I mean. The weather turned out to be better than expected. Breezy and warm with the sun low in the sky. Field conditions were grassy. Longish grassy. Loudoun came off the whistle roaring down the field to score in a tangled mess at their goal posts in the 3rd minute. When the bodies cleared, I think Gio was the one to get a foot on it, but it could have been Nate. Who scored the first goal? Whomever, Loudoun was off to a great start against shocked GRFL. They must have been very angry about that because they scored in both the 5th and 6th minutes to go ahead by one goal. It stayed that way in a tough back and forth match up until halftime. Then on the GRFL kickoff, they sent the ball deep in to Loudoun territory and kicked one into the unprotected open goal to go ahead 3-1 in the 31st minute. I though Loudoun was defeated. Come back from being down 3-1 against this team?
Hard fought chances, tough possessions, and sheer determination gave Loudoun a corner on the right side in the 36th minute. Ben was there to score off of Tim’s corner making it 3-2. Time kept sweeping past and Loudoun had a couple of shots hit the goal post. One actually hit the post then hit their keeper in the back and bounced back toward the goal only to go just wide of the post. Ahhhhhhhhhh!
Late in the game it seemed we were wearing them down just with pure willpower. Gio scored a tremendous solo goal, sweeping past defenders and blasting past the onrushing keeper to make it all tied at 3-3 in the 50th minute. After having been down 3-1, we onlookers were pretty happy to settle for a tie. But Loudoun would have none of that because with just one minute remaining in regulation time, Gio passed a glorious ball to Dawson who found the sweetspot of their goal and suddenly, miraculously, Loudoun emerged the victors in a thrilling game. Beautiful, wonderful soccer guys. I hope you lie in bed replaying that game back in your minds because it is the kind of thing that can make you happy by thinking about it for many years to come, perhaps for the rest of your life.
You probably like this unretouched photo better than the one at the top of the page. Yeah. I’ll change it again eventually.
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Onyeador Featured in SI’s “Faces in the Crowd”
By Paul Boyer | September 13, 2008 at 9:45 pm
From an article I found at the Georgetown Univ. 
athletics web site. We’ve been watching Uche for a couple of years now.
Washington, D.C. – Georgetown University freshman Uche Onyeador (Sterling, Va./Potomac Falls) received national attention this past week as he was featured in Sports Illustrated. The forward has a goal and an assist on the season for the No. 20/23 Hoyas who are currently 5-0 and have held opponents scoreless for 450-straight minutes.
Onyeador was one of four athletes profiled in Sports Illustrated “Faces in the Crowd” column which recognized his accomplishments in high school at Potomac Falls. He set Virginia all-division career records with 127 goals and 290 points (36 assists). As a junior, Onyeador was Virginia’s player of the year after scoring a school-record 42 goals.
The Hoyas open BIG EAST play on Saturday as they travel to RV/T25 Providence for a 2 p.m., game. Georgetown moved into the national polls earlier this week boasting an undefeated record. The Friars are 2-0-1 on the season defeating Sacred Heart and Boston College.
Kickoff is slated for 2 p.m., Gametracker and a webcast will both be available at the Providence athletic website.
Sure looks like he’s helping Georgetown. (Except for the fact they lost today against Providence 1-0, the game mentioned above.)
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