{"id":13651,"date":"2014-10-01T15:31:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T15:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/?p=13651"},"modified":"2014-10-01T15:31:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T15:31:26","slug":"montrose-soccer-teams-sweep-holy-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/2014\/10\/01\/montrose-soccer-teams-sweep-holy-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Montrose soccer teams sweep Holy Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BY HEIDI ZENEFSKI<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Sports Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13652\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WGSI_soccer_Mon_AmatoWatkins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13652\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13652\" alt=\"Johnny Amato (#11) and Kyle Watkins (#17) out run a Crusader to help the Meteors to a 4-1 win over Holy Cross on Sept. 23.\" src=\"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WGSI_soccer_Mon_AmatoWatkins-300x256.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/psowegomedia.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WGSI_soccer_Mon_AmatoWatkins-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/psowegomedia.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WGSI_soccer_Mon_AmatoWatkins-1024x875.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/psowegomedia.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WGSI_soccer_Mon_AmatoWatkins.jpg 1424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Amato (#11) and Kyle Watkins (#17) out run a Crusader to help the Meteors to a 4-1 win over Holy Cross on Sept. 23. PHOTO BY HEIDI ZENEFSKI<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Montrose Meteors Girls\u2019 and Boys\u2019 Varsity Soccer Teams took on the Holy Cross Crusaders on September 22 and 23rd, respectively.<br \/>\nThe Crusaders traveled to Montrose on Monday evening (Sept. 22) to face the Lady Meteors. These two teams have a fierce rivalry and for the fourth year in a row, the Lady Meteors came out on top. The game went back and forth for most of the first half, but Montrose kept possession of the ball for a majority of the 40 minutes. With only 3:19 to go, Krysten Morgan scored unassisted to give the Lady Meteors a 1-0 lead at half time.<br \/>\nHalf way through the second half of the game, Montrose\u2019s Hannah Dieck capitalized on a penalty and scored, unassisted, with a direct kick to increase the Lady Meteor\u2019s lead to 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the clock ticking down, the Lady Crusaders<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13653\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WGSI_Soccer_Mon_Buck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13653\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13653\" alt=\"Montrose keeper Brendan Buck punches the ball out in defense of the goal against Holy Cross. Buck had three saves. PHOTO BY HEIDI ZENEFSKI\" src=\"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WGSI_Soccer_Mon_Buck-300x222.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/psowegomedia.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WGSI_Soccer_Mon_Buck-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/psowegomedia.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WGSI_Soccer_Mon_Buck-1024x758.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/psowegomedia.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WGSI_Soccer_Mon_Buck.jpg 1256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montrose keeper Brendan Buck punches the ball out in defense of the goal against Holy Cross. Buck had three saves. PHOTO BY HEIDI ZENEFSKI<\/p><\/div>\n<p>were desperate to score. At 75:37 of the 80 minute competition, Lexie Green passed the ball to Felicia Dzielak to give Holy Cross its first and only goal of the game and avoided a Montrose shutout. The game ended with a Montrose 2-1 victory over Holy Cross. Montrose increased their record to 3-0.<br \/>\nAnna Churco was in goal for Montrose and had three saves.<\/p>\n<p>The Montrose Boys Soccer team traveled to Dickson City Tuesday, Sept. 23, to face the Crusaders on their home field. The Meteors earned the victory against a traditionally dominant foe.<br \/>\nMontrose dominated the game offensively from the beginning leaving goal keeper, Brendan Buck, without the need to make any saves for the entire first half of the game.<br \/>\nAt 21:31, freshman, Tom Vaccaro put the first point on the board for Montrose.<br \/>\nThe Crusaders answered at 11:42 when Nick Vinansky scored on a penalty kick to tie the game.<br \/>\nMontrose senior, Kyle Watkins, got the go-ahead goal with just 4:37 left in the half. Frustration of the Holy Cross players mounted and Matthew Nelson was given a yellow card for encroachment on a direct kick and removed from the game for the required five minutes. The score the half had the Meteors up by one, 2-1.<br \/>\nHoly Cross played an aggressive second half, taking some shots on goal.<br \/>\nBut the aggression also cost them when Montrose sophomore Giovanni Amato was tripped in the goal box by a Holy Cross player. Amato was rewarded with a penalty kick and successfully scored at 30:29 to give the Meteors a 3-1 lead.<br \/>\nWith 11 minutes left in the game, freshman, Zach Dieck finished off the Crusaders with a goal off an assist from Troy Ely to end the game with a 4-1 victory for the Meteors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY HEIDI ZENEFSKI Sports Correspondent &nbsp; The Montrose Meteors Girls\u2019 and Boys\u2019 Varsity Soccer Teams took on the Holy Cross Crusaders on September 22 and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Montrose soccer teams sweep Holy Cross - PS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/2014\/10\/01\/montrose-soccer-teams-sweep-holy-cross\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Montrose soccer teams sweep Holy Cross - PS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BY HEIDI ZENEFSKI Sports Correspondent &nbsp; 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