Bethesda Internationals

6 Mar. '10.  After a 2-1/2 month hiatus since Disney Showcase 2009 in Dec. and limited practices due to more than 50" of accumulated snowfall on the ground, Pachuca faced off with it's new in-state rival, SAC United Premier, in the 1st game of the Region I Premier League 2010 season.  SAC bested Pachuca last year at this time, 2-0, when the Internationals were out of action since the Disney Showcase 2008 event.

SAC played very physical and mostly vertical, sending long balls into the box, and managed several strong scoring threast including a blast in full stride from about 25 yards on the right  but Seth reacted quickly to lay out and finger-tip save the hard shot.  And, another bicycle kick from about 18 yards left which fortuitiously slammed off the far post and bounched out of hamrs way.  Inter would score first about 3/4 of the way into the first half off of a nice cross by Stephen on the right end line and into the box where Schillo headed in the ball to put Inter up 1-0.

SAC continued its physcial and aggressive play in the 2nd half and continued to force the issue with balls sent into the middle of the goal area.  Md-way through the 2nd half after Inter's collapsed into the middle of the box, SAC switched a ball over to Inter's right side to an open/unguarded player who collected the ball and fired in a hard shot past Seth to tie the match, 1-1, which ended deadlocked several minutes later.