Northview Titans Varsity Boys Game Summaries
Northview v. Central Forsyth 6-2
February 28th
The Titans prevailed 6-2 in a game played with quickness by both teams, with Northview’s size and passing ability allowing them to dominate most of the match.
The Bulldogs managed to tie up Northview in the middle of the field a number of times especially in the early part of the second half, and to derail a number of Titan offensive attacks, but they couldn’t mount a sustained offensive push all night long. The Titans proved too much by deliberate ball control, and creating and exploiting opportunities to shoot all evening long.
Northview’s six goals were shared by four players, and the two Central Forsyth scores resulted from single scoring chances when players got open inside the penalty area. Titan goalkeeper saw few other Bulldog shots in the match.
Highlights:
6 min
Jeff Scannella scores the first GOAL from 20 yards in the center of the field with a low shot past the Bulldogs keeper.
8 min
Andrew Cameron lays a crossing pass from 35 yards on the left to Cameron Pratt making a run in on the right side, but Pratt’s shot goes wide right.
9 min
Pratt crosses in from 20 yards on the right to Jacob Lee, who shoots high.
12 min
Johnson passes from midfield in to Jeff Scannella, and the Bulldogs are forced to clear for a corner kick. Scannella’s inbound kick gives Andrew Cameron a header opportunity which goes high.
17 min
Scannella is fouled at 22 yards, and Sam Bevan drives the free kick off the Bulldogs’ defensive wall and into the far corner of the net for a GOAL.
21 min
Stephen Gulia set up the next Titan GOAL with a clearing pass from deep in the Northview end, out to midfield, where Jacob Lee put a lead pass to Andrew Cameron at 15 yards. Cameron beat the defender marking him, then shot low into the net for a 3 – 0 Titan lead.
31 min
Tanner Chamblin and Brandon McCollum team up to completely shut down the Bulldogs attack plans.
36 min
Gulia takes charge of his half of the field with a fine stop at midfield to avoid a potentially dangerous one on one challenge.
40 min
Scannella drives down the left side from 30 yards, and uncorks a low speedball from 6 yards. He is denied in a sprawling save by the Bulldog keeper.
47 min
The Titans get a rare indirect free kick from inside the penalty area after the Bulldogs pass back to their keeper who illegally fields it. The shot by Scannella goes just a bit too high.
50 min
Stephen Glover’s tripping foul gives Central Forsyth a free kick at 35 yards, which they cross in to the left side, and from 15 yards a header breaks the shutout for a Bulldogs goal.
54 min
Inside the Bulldogs penalty area, Scannella is held while trying to go around a defender. Stephen Glover takes the penalty kick and gives the Titans their fourth GOAL.
59 min
Jeff Scannella blocks a Bulldog pass at midfield, brings the ball in to 25 yards, then finds Mario Perazza on his left, but his shot is saved.
63 min
Central Forsyth takes a free kick from 50 yards out, and the incoming pass finds an open attacker at 15 yards who strikes it cleanly high into the net for the second Bulldog goal.
68 min
Ramu Annamalai finds Andrew Cameron open, and Cameron dribbles in to 6 yards then crosses thru the box and an outstretched keeper to find Jeff Scannella ending a run on the left side, with a shot from 10 yards for the Titan’s fifth GOAL.
74 min
Andrew Cameron puts on a show, starting from 30 yards out and going by two defenders, with a slide to the ground to keep control, then bouncing up, faking past the onrushing keeper, and tapping in an easy score to give Northview its sixth GOAL.
75 min
The Bulldogs get a last offensive chance and drive a low hard shot from 35 yards that Titan keeper Will Whorton dives to his left to save.
