Boys: North Salem ends one game short
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About halfway through the season I said North Salem had the look of a state champion. I was wrong by a game. The Tigers made it all the way to the Class C final, where they came up short against Red Creek. It was the first Class C team to beat them.
They didn’t allow a goal in the state playoffs until the last game. Ironically, that may have been their undoing. They admitted afterward that it flustered them to surrender one. Red Creek would add three more. Hey, Red Creek hasn’t won three titles in four years for nothing.
North Salem was also hurt by an inability to finish. It took 28 shots in the state semifinal without connecting on one. Even the two goals they scored in the final could have been more. They got away with it in the semifinal because Fabius-Pompey was playing super conservative and was never a threat to score. That game ended up in penalty kicks, as you can read here. North Salem nailed its first three kicks while Fabius missed its first two. Fabius managed to force a fifth kick, which Dan Loftus nailed for the win.
The photo below is John Roach making a great stop on Fabius’s first kick.
The ride ended the next day. Despite a Mike Cuzzi goal that put them up, Red Creek’s Ryan Fisher knotted the score with a free kick with six minutes left in the first half. Red Creek eventually went up 3-1. Brian Span cut it to 3-2 with eight minutes left but North Salem couldn’t find the equalizer before losing 4-2. You can read Matt Ng’s account here.
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on Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 at 10:05 pm by Jake Thomases. 
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Yet again there was a girls soccer game (Exceptional Seniors) that gets very little write-up in the JN and NO MENTION in this blog.
Good thing that we’re moving into the winter sports season..
John Roach stinks…. he’s as useful as tonsils which means the defense did all the work and he deserves no credit
jeff, when are the all-county teams coming out
ted…Roach was very good, he was just rarely needed. He doesn’t stink. But then, you’re a North Salem fan so you already know that.
Jake,
when are the all County and all state awards coming out.
The Journal News awards come out Sunday, Dec. 14. I’ll have more on this later. All-state will be announced Dec. 3.
brian span got all state cause he is da shit
Jake,
Are u gonna inform us who gets all-state.