League

Debert Park
Spectators: 6726 (Terracing: 5000, Seating: 1726, VIP seats: 0) Luis Swain made the kick off and thus started the match. Kyle Wood's late challenge caught a Westholme's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Kyle Wood helped the player get up and apologised. In the 3rd minute the ball was on its way in behind Debert's goalkeeper Rico Bryan, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. After 5 minutes, Wilbur Plourde mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Westholme and the Debert players grew even worse after the yellow card. The supporters of Debert booed when Westholme was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 5 match minutes in a wonderful position. Wilbur Plourde didn't get a good kick on the ball. After 9 minutes, Elliott Coronado mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Westholme and the Debert players grew even worse after the yellow card. In a very dangerous position, a player in Westholme fell when an opponent tried to get the ball from him in the 9th minute. Penalty! After 13 played minutes Debert got a freekick which was hit by Garfield Kessler. Marshall Kirkland took the ball and in the 15 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Rico Bryan. Rico Bryan dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 1-1. In the 17th minute, Henry Trejo hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. After a defensive mix-up in Westholme's zone, Kyle Wood stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Rolland Britt came out of the goal and Kyle Wood tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. In the 25th minute, Kyle Wood ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Rolland Britt was frozen by the shot and now it was 2-1. Kyle Wood might have been able to make a better finish in the 30th minute when he tried to place a hard shot over Rolland Britt. Instead the ball went over the crossbar and out. Kyle Wood ran back to his position shaking his head. In the 32nd minute Ron Grimes shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Rolland Britt saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. In the 35th play minute Kyle Wood came free and shot an unsuspected shot which went into goal from the right pole behind a surprised Rolland Britt. 3-1. Rico Bryan didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Marshall Kirkland went, in the 39th minute, to the upper right corner, 3-2 was the resulting score. All the noise was coming from the home fans when the whistle went for half-time. The home team had fought hardest to put themselves in a deserved lead.

When the second half was about to start, both teams quickly lined up and Ron Grimes made a kick off. After a defensive mix-up in Debert's zone, Marshall Kirkland stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Rico Bryan came out of the goal and Marshall Kirkland tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. When Luis Swain came up free with the goalie in the 62nd minute, the Westholme fans jumped to their feet. But the shot missed the goal by a fraction of an inch, and the fans sat back down disappointed that Luis Swain couldn't finish the play. Kelly Schaefer hit a great freekick 63 minutes into the match. Lionel Snow kicked well hit freekick during the 68th minute of the match. In the 70th minute of the match Dusty Jacobson sent off a long shot with destination to the right of the goalkeeper, but Rolland Britt skillfully saved the ball. Ron Grimes blasted a shot towards the goal in the 72nd minute, but the shot hit the top of the crossbar and went out without Rolland Britt having to make a save. The referee blew the whistle for a penalty in the 75th minute of the game. One of Debert:s players had nearly got his shirt torn off by an opponent while getting free in front of Westholme:s goal. The referee gave Westholme a penalty, 77 minutes into the game. The penalty shot was made by Lionel Snow, who made a well placed shot into the net to the right of Debert's Rico Bryan. 3-3. If Ron Grimes had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 81st minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Through an outstanding action, after 85 minutes, Rico Bryan successfully got his hands on the ball before it slid into the goal at the right post. In the 86th minute, Gabriel Connors hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Rolland Britt took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Ron Grimes, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Luis Swain fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 90th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Rico Bryan having to interfere. Garfield Kessler kicked well hit freekick during the 91st minute of the match.