FREMONT – A lopsided score doesn’t necessarily equal a happy coach.
When the Fremont Ross boys soccer team put a seven-goal thumping on Port Clinton last week, coach Alex Coressel was thoroughly displeased with his team’s first-half effort.
Tuesday night, the Little Giants hosted TRAC foe Lima Senior and, like last week, the Little Giants enjoyed a one-sided victory, defeating the Spartans 7-1.
Dylan Brady
So, was Coressel more pleased with Tuesday’s effort than last week’s?
“Very,” he said. “The kids put a lot of things together and they played a very good game overall. We were able to get our subs in and play them for 25 minutes tonight. We were up 4-0 at half and pretty much had it put away in the first half.”
Chris Navarro opened the scoring with a bomb from near mid-field which found the net over the head of the Lima goalkeeper. Dylan Brady then scored a pair of goals and Alec Slemmer added a tally before the end of the half.
Brady and Slemmer each scored again in the second half and Navarro had a corner kick that went off a Lima defender and into the Spartans’ net.
Brady’s hat trick gives him 10 goals in the Little Giants’ first three games.
“He’s scoring basically every way possible,” Coressel said. “He’s scored off a free kick, he scored off a corner, he’s headed it in, he’s had a couple shots he created on his own and dribbled through people. It’s been a little bit of everything.
Alec Slemmer
Chris Navarro
“I think park of that is the fight in him and wanting to carry the team and the other part is he’s gotten much better at distributing the ball so when he passes it off he’s also able to get some more wide open looks.”
Slemmer’s goals were are his first two of the season, a much-welcomed sight to Coressel who will be looking to Slemmer, among others, to ease the scoring burden off Brady when the Little Giants face tougher competition.
“Most important, what was nice was to see him not to shoot too hard or overswing or anything,” Coressel said. “He placed a couple nice balls in the net and the keeper wasn’t able to get to them. He’s going the things we talk about in practice, calming down and getting good shots instead of sailing everything over the net.”
Charlie Corthell, Cesar Flores, Carter Durbin and Navarro all added assists while Caleb Bennison made four saves in goal.
The win improves the Little Giants to 2-1 overall this season, 1-0 in the TRAC. Ross returns to action next Tuesday at Toledo Central Catholic.