Bethesda Internationals

16 May '04. On a threatening T-storm late afternnon and on a poor clumpy field for good passing at Linway Terrace in McLean, Inter found their old D3/D2 friends/opponents to be up for the challenge of notching a W against Inter. But, Inter, too, was up for the challenge to maintain its lead in D1 amd its tight and stingy defense allowed very fews shots on goal throught the match. At about the 10 minute mark of the first half, Pablo crossed a nice, long ball from the right side of the Thunder's goal area over to Sam on the far left. Sam dribbled, juked a Thunder defender and fired in a strong arcing shot to the over the keepers outstretchd arms from about 20 yards out. At about 2 minutes into the second half, Nicholas launched a beautiful corner kick into the center of the goal mouth about 5 yards out, where Varun perfectly timed his leap up in the air and headed in a strong shot to the upper corner of the net over the Gk's head. Despite Inter pretty much controlling the math for the rest of the second half, missing on a number of shots on goals, credit the Thunder for hanging tough as they managed a couple of break aways beyond Inter's defenders but Ben was able to catch up and made a great tackle on the ball to take it away on one occasion, and another break away was stymied by other defenders who recovered in time to break up the run and tackle the ball away.