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Tri-Village's
Andrew Willcox (18) and Franklin Monroe's Lucas King (9)
go high for a header
Tuesday at Franklin Monroe in first round
sectional action. The Jets rolled to a 6-0 victory and
will advance to
play Preble Shawnee. CNO Photos by Dale Barger
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Soccer team scores shutout
Franklin Monroe
boys advance
Versailles hammers Dixie
By George Starks
PITSBURG - If there is one thing any coach wants to do is beat his alma
mater and his former high school coach.
Such was the case for interim Tri-Village soccer coach, Noah Welbaum.
While sometimes dreams come true, it wasn't going to happen for Welbaum.
Franklin Monroe sophomore Brian Robison scored three goals Tuesday and
added an assist as the Jets advanced to play Preble Shawnee with a 6-0
victory.
Welbaum had the right idea when he decided to pack everyone back on
defense, with the exception of two players.
The strategy was simple.
"We packed the box hoping to keep the Jets out of the goal and get in
to a shoot-out situation," said Welbaum. "If we could have forced that
with a 0-0 tie at the end of regulation, we could have won this tonight
but it didn't work out that way."
All bets were off at the 29:46 mark of the first half when Robison got
a great assist from Marcus Horner to give the Jets the only goal they
would need.
Horner would back Robison's goal up at the 14:17 point and then Lucas
King would get an assist from Robison with 5:00 left to play in the
half.
It was a night when the Jets had all aspects of the game covered.
Not only were plenty of goals scored, but Franklin Monroe controlled
the tempo, the ball and kept most of the action on the Patriots end of
the field.
"That's the kind of team we have here," said FM coach Danny Diceanu.
"We were able to contain the ball, move and pass the ball and we try to
dissect teams by carving them apart. This is probably the best ball
movement we've had in a few years. Last years team was good but this
years team is better because they are a year older."
Earlier in the season, the Jets popped the Patriots 2-0 and Diceanu
remembered it well.
"In that game, Tri-Village packed it in on us and put eight and nine
guys in the box," said the Jets coach. "We got frustrated and we worked
on that this week trying to deal with that. We did the same thing to
Summit over the weekend and that helped us and it frustrated them but
they were still able to move the ball around. So we took a page from
them and learned from it."
Robison would add two more goals in the second half while Nick Mobley
would get the final score of the night.
"Any time Brian touches the ball he's a threat to score," Diceanu said
of his sophomore striker. "He's our field general. He sees the field
well and distributes the ball."
The loss brought the curtain down on the Patriots season with a 1-18-2
mark but according to Welbaum, he saw positives come out of it.
"Our seniors went out on a loss but played extremely well," said
Welbaum. "We played hard defense and wanted to force the shoot-out. We
have improved since the start of the season."
Franklin Monroe will host Shawnee Thursday at 7 p.m.
Volleyball sectional results:
Tri-Village fell to Covington in three games at Piqua Tuesday, 26-24,
25-12, 27-25.
In the Brookville sectional, Versailles hammered Dixie 25-8, 25-9,
25-10 to advance to the sectional finals Saturday. The Tigers will
battle the Anna Rockets as Anna advanced by topping Tri-County North in
three games, 25-13, 25-23, 25-17.
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Brian
Robison works against two Tri-Village defenders Tuesday. Robison scored
three goals
and had a assist in the Jets victory.
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