SAN RAMON -- The San Ramon Huskies opened the regular season this Saturday morning at 10:00am at Quail Run Park against the San Ramon Storm. The Storm is one of four U14 Rec+ teams that practice on Tuesday and Thursday at Athan Downs during the late time slot along with the Huskies, so these two teams have been seeing each other twice a week for the last month and a half. The two teams did scrimmage before the Rec+ kick off tournament and the Storm beat up on the Huskies during that match.

This game was played completely differently than that scrimmage. The Huskies kept the pressure on the Storm much of the day and just missed jumping to a quick 1-0 lead when Emily Glaser got the ball deep in the left hand corner and then crossed it and followed her pass so she was in position to score when the ball came back in the middle. Everything was done correctly except the finish. In her excitement to score Emily swung too hard and unbelievably the ball went straight up a good 15 feet, giving the goalie enough time to come over and stop the shot.

Emily would get another chance to take the lead when Jeanette Sarkany was rotated into the right forward position and quickly pushed the ball up into the right corner and made a beautiful cross. Emily was once again in perfect position and just made a nice little one touch poke into the back of the net. This happened just a couple of minutes before the end of the first half, so the Huskies went into halftime with a 1-0 lead.

The Huskies weren’t able to hold the lead for too long, though. The Storm slipped a pass through the defense and the only thing between the goalie and the Storm forward was the sweeper, Caitlin Weber. Caitlin tried to clear the ball, but ended up colliding with the forward in the goal box. Since the forward fell down, the referee decided that it was tripping and because it was inside the goal box, it resulted in a penalty kick. The Huskies lined up on the 18 ready to come in once the Storm player kicked the ball, but unfortunately, a few of the Huskies left on the whistle instead of after the ball was kicked. The kick went over the goal, but because the Huskies jumped off the 18 early, the Storm was awarded another kick, which they converted to tie the score at 1-1.

Since Jeanette came right out and made a difference, she was awarded the right forward spot again for the second half and she proved to Coach Jim that that was the right decision. Jeanette attacked a goal kick and fought through a couple of defenders and then dropped in a beautiful lofted shot right over the top of the goalie into the goal.

Unfortunately, the Storm came right back and got in behind the defense and followed up a shot that Navi Bal stopped but couldn’t get a handle on and ended up tying up the game again at 2-2.

The Huskies were able to hold off the Storm in the last few minutes and came away with the tie. There were chances that the Huskies couldn’t capitalize on, but the Storm had their chances as well, so all in all, it was okay to walk away with a hard fought tie.

Nice game girls. I look forward to watching you improve each week.

End of Game Awards
blood patch: Gabby Silva
assist patch: Jeanette Sarkany
goal patch: Emily Glaser, Jeanette Sarkany
defender of the game patch: Korah Rose
lightning hustle patch: Erin Cantoni
star of the game patch: Jeanette Sarkany

Game Stats:

Goals:
Emily Glaser 1
Jeanette Sarkany 1

Assists:
Jeanette Sarkany 1


Season Stats:

Goals:
Natali Feyzbakhsh 1
Emily Glaser 1
Jeanette Sarkany 1

Huskies 3
Opponents 5

Assists:
Emily Glaser 1
Jeanette Sarkany 1