Blue Jays Roundup: Soccer improves to 7-0-2, 1-0-1 on the week
Sep. 14—JAMESTOWN — Dickinson High School soccer team's 1-0 lead with 20 minutes left in the opening half made for a silent and tense pressbox on Thursday.
Connor Traut broke the tension.
The senior broke through the Midgets' defenses to connect with a pass from Henry Yolain and make it a 1-1 game.
"GOALIE GOALIE GOAL," Ryan Harty screamed into the pressbox mic.
It was the spark the Jays needed.
The Blue Jays topped Dickinson 3-1 to improve to 7-0-2 in the WDA standings. The Jays' final test of the week will come in the form of Williston on Saturday. The Jays and Coyotes will square off at 2 p.m. at Jamestown's Rotary Field.
"This is one of the hardest weeks in our season because we have three games in a week," JHS head coach Brandi Harty said. "We've played everybody once so far and now we have to go back around again and having three games to start with is just hard on any team. We've got to gut our way through this week and fight our way through."
The Midgets scored on their first shot on goal, two minutes into the half.
"They earned that goal," Harty said. "We were very disorganized in the back. Two of our defenders did not communicate and one of Dickinson's attackers split us and unfortunately, they found the back of the net."
Thankfully for the Jays, they also have some people who can find the back of the net.
Brady Harty sent the ball over to Iddi Ramadhani who fired one past Dickinson goalie, Luis Martinez to double the Jays' lead with nine minutes left before the break.
Dickinson put four more shots on goal in the first. Jamestown made six shots on goal in the first 40 minutes.
After the break, Ryan was right back to announcing Blue Jay scores.
With 38:38 left on the clock, Brady Harty buried one to make it a 3-1 Blue Jay game.
While the Jays kept in control of the score, Coach Harty said the team's normal intensity and ability to play quickly was missing from portions of the 80 minutes.
"This team knows what they are capable of and they know that tonight is not anywhere near where they want to be," Harty said. "They allowed Dickinson room to counterattack. They gave them too much space — they needed to step quicker. We looked tired, we were reacting instead of being proactive.
"Today was a hard game for them but hopefully a day of recovery tomorrow will help and we'll go again on Saturday," she said.
Jamestown 3, Dickinson 1
DHS 1 0 — 1
JHS 2 1 — 3
Scoring
First half
1. DHS, Francis Kouda, (unassisted), 2nd minute; 2. JHS, Connor Traut (Henry Yolain), 28th minute; 3. JHS, Iddi Ramadhani (Brady Harty), 31st minute.
Second half
4. JHS, Brady Harty (unassisted), 42nd minute.
Goalkeeper saves: Dickinson, Luis Martinez 4; Rupert Deniz, 2; Jamestown, Grant Lunde, 5
Shots on goal: Dickinson 6; Jamestown 9
