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HANNIBAL — Already short-handed by several players, the Chillicothe High School soccer Hornets didn’t fare well Friday facing the Hannibal Pirates, annually a state-ranked team.
Once again, the young, battered Hornets found a most-experienced foe hard to handle as the Pirates outshot CHS 24-3 and won 11-1 in a game halted about 13 minutes early by the 10-goal lead rule.
Already without would-be contributing veterans Clark Allen (preseason knee injury), Connor Ruoff (broken foot suffered helping move bleachers for the band at last Friday’s football game), and Austin Ireland (foot injury sustained during last Saturday’s Fulton game), Chillicothe’s top returning scorer, Colton Whiteside, became ill on the trip to Hannibal and junior midfielder Laine Saunders injured his ankle in the early minutes.
Those absences caused the CHS lineup to be shaken once again.
“This made a very difficult game even more so,” Hornets head coach Bill Allison admitted, “but it allowed a lot of game time for others, each of them gaining experience.”
The lone Hornets goal came in the 38th minute when play transitioned in the Hornets’ favor on the very fast turf field.
The ball came to the feet of Brice Griffin, who has turned in his second strong game, according to Allison. He sent it forward where freshman Grant Peterson outraced two defenders to the ball and sent it past the Pirates goalkeeper for already his third goal in three games this season.
Other than that brief play, the Hornets were on the defensive the rest of the game, their coach reported, as the crafty, very fast Pirates constantly put pressure on the ball.
That resulted in another barrage of shots toward the CHS goal and freshman ’keeper Troy Toedebusch. He made stops on 13 of them, enough to give his teammates nearly 70 minutes of additional game experience.
HANNIBAL — Already short-handed by several players, the Chillicothe High School soccer Hornets didn’t fare well Friday facing the Hannibal Pirates, annually a state-ranked team.
Once again, the young, battered Hornets found a most-experienced foe hard to handle as the Pirates outshot CHS 24-3 and won 11-1 in a game halted about 13 minutes early by the 10-goal lead rule.
Already without would-be contributing veterans Clark Allen (preseason knee injury), Connor Ruoff (broken foot suffered helping move bleachers for the band at last Friday’s football game), and Austin Ireland (foot injury sustained during last Saturday’s Fulton game), Chillicothe’s top returning scorer, Colton Whiteside, became ill on the trip to Hannibal and junior midfielder Laine Saunders injured his ankle in the early minutes.
Those absences caused the CHS lineup to be shaken once again.
“This made a very difficult game even more so,” Hornets head coach Bill Allison admitted, “but it allowed a lot of game time for others, each of them gaining experience.”
The lone Hornets goal came in the 38th minute when play transitioned in the Hornets’ favor on the very fast turf field.
The ball came to the feet of Brice Griffin, who has turned in his second strong game, according to Allison. He sent it forward where freshman Grant Peterson outraced two defenders to the ball and sent it past the Pirates goalkeeper for already his third goal in three games this season.
Other than that brief play, the Hornets were on the defensive the rest of the game, their coach reported, as the crafty, very fast Pirates constantly put pressure on the ball.
That resulted in another barrage of shots toward the CHS goal and freshman ’keeper Troy Toedebusch. He made stops on 13 of them, enough to give his teammates nearly 70 minutes of additional game experience.
