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By George Starks - Junior Brandon Myers works against Valley View
senior Senior Kiester
Monday during Greenville’s season opening soccer
game. The Spartans dropped a 4-0 loss on the Wave.
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Wave drops home opener
By George Starks
GREENVILLE - All Valley View needed was one goal. The Spartans
got four.
It was a case of one missed opportunity after another Monday as
Greenville fell to Valley View 4-0 in the Wave’s season opening soccer
match.
“We lost focus and we lost our composure,” said Wave coach Brent
DeVoss. “We let them get into us mentally and that led to some very
un-smart fouls and penalties that cost us some time and scoring
opportunities. We gave up some sloppy goals but we had our chances.”
Missed chances to score kept the Wave out of the net and off the
scoreboard.
With the opportunities being there, Greenville’s biggest chance came
with just over seven minutes left in the game. With a wide open net to
shoot at, the Wave attempt went wide left of the goal, helping to
preserve the Spartan shutout.
“The inability to finish,” said DeVoss. “I take the blame for that. It
all comes down to practice. Practice, practice, practice. We have to
focus on that this week. We have Miamisburg coming in here Saturday and
that is a conference (GWOC) game. We are going to have to be prepared.”
It didn’t take Valley View long to get on the board as the Wave defense
broke down early. With less than five minutes gone, Spartan senior Juan
Nova put the game winner on the board to make it a 1-0 lead.
Valley View would score again at the 23:18 mark on a goal off the foot
of Greg Freziel.
The Spartans would add two more goals in the second half to preserve
the victory.
“We broke down on defense,” DeVoss said. “We didn’t fly to the ball the
way we should have. We were reacting and not being proactive. We didn’t
anticipate the way we should have. If you’re standing on defense, find
a shirt. If you’re on offense, find a space. We failed to do that and
we limited ourselves on scoring opportunities. If we play Saturday, the
way we played tonight, we will be 0-2 and that’s hard to recover from.”
The Wave junior varsity fell 6-2. Falling behind 2-0 early, Greenville
gained a 2-2 score with 10:10 remaining. Valley View scored four timed
in the final 10 minutes to gain the edge.
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