Bulldogs Win in Soccer Action, EHS, Altamont Drop Matches

St. Anthony played host to the Knights of Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond and captured a 3-0 soccer victory Tuesday.

"Today was a true showing of fall weather, perfect temps, and perfect breeze, just an all-around great day for soccer," said St. Anthony Coach Eric Morales. "We came out to find ourselves a little on the slow side, as the Knights came out with pressure right out the gate. Roughly five minutes in, we finally put something together as Andy Saba found Ryan Kruger for a beautiful head ball beating the keeper and putting us up 1-0. Much of the rest of the first half both teams went back and forth, trading some wow moments.

"With seven minutes left in the half, Alex Deters, on a throw in, found Moises Lemus for a goal putting us up 2-0. As the half came to an end we took one last run on goal. With 29 seconds left in the game, Kruger dribbled the ball down the right side and crossed it in to find Alex Deters to put us up 3-0 and the half came to an end.

"The second half was a lot of both teams struggling to possess the ball at first. We had a total of nine shots on goal to ALAH's three.  ALAH had some good nice looks on goal as we did."

St. Anthony moves to 14-0-3 on the season and plays next Monday against Harrisburg.

At Charleston

Effingham High School continues to struggle. The Hearts dropped a 7-1 loss to Charleston Tuesday.

The Trojans took a 5-0 first half lead as Drew Mejdrich scored twice, Jack Caltry, AJ Ruffolo and Jack Thain tallied one each.

In the second half, Charleston's Edmonds Mac tallied to push the Trojans up 6-0. Effingham finally scored on a goal by Danny Hortenstine. Charleston's Dylan Dinkelman then scored the final goal of the contest.

Effingham's Will Starwalt had 11 saves.

At Olney

Altamont/Beecher City fell to Olney, 1-0. The Tigers scored the lone goal in the first half.

The Indians had 21 shots, 10 on goal while Olney had 23 shots, 11 on goal. Altamont's Sam Childerson had 10 saves while the Tigers also had 10 saves.

Altamont drops to 7-7-1 on the season.

In a junior vasrity match, Olney was a 2-1 winner. Olney tallied a goal in the first half. Altamont's Dylan Marble tied in the second half but Olney won with only 0.3 left on the clock.

The Indians' junior varsity drops to 1-4-1.