Roundup: San Benito scores 3 first-half goals, fends off
Gonzales 3-2
Andy Hurtado said the Balers are simply coming together as a
team.
Since opening the 2009-10 season with a pair of losses, the San
Benito boys soccer team has gone 2-0-1 – its latest match a 3-2
victory over Gonzales on Tuesday.
Roundup: San Benito scores 3 first-half goals, fends off Gonzales 3-2
Andy Hurtado said the Balers are simply coming together as a team.
Since opening the 2009-10 season with a pair of losses, the San Benito boys soccer team has gone 2-0-1 – its latest match a 3-2 victory over Gonzales on Tuesday.
“We’ve become one. We’ve become a team,” said Hurtado, a junior stopper for the Balers, who deposited a goal for San Benito on Tuesday. “It took us a couple games, but we’re finally getting it down.”
Tuesday’s victory in Hollister was the second time in as many years San Benito has topped Gonzales, which has won the Mission Trail Athletic League the last two seasons.
Balers head coach Ramiro Ramos said his team matches up well with the Spartans, who fall to 2-2-2 with the loss.
“We play the same style,” Ramos said. “Compared to teams like Palma and Carmel, those are fast teams. We don’t do so well when we try to play those fast games.”
But Gonzales was at a perfect speed on Tuesday, and the Balers took advantage early on.
In the 3rd minute, Alex Salvatier’s corner kick sailed into the box and was appeared to have been corralled by Gonzales’ keeper. But the Spartan netminder instead dropped it, and San Benito’s Joel Ojeda punched in the game’s first goal as a result.
Although Gonzales tied the game at 1-all some 20 minutes later, the Balers went back up when Hurtado’s chip shot toward the right corner of the net somehow squeezed in – top shelf.
Hurtado didn’t have as much luck seven minutes later when his corner kick from the left sailed past the goal to the right side of the field, but teammate Ricardo Roque quickly rebounded the loose ball and re-crossed it toward the net.
Wide open on the left side was Sergio Lopez, who’s shot from 12 yards out kissed the left post and bounced in to give the Balers a 3-1 lead at the 31st minute.
