ELMORE – Saturday morning saw more of the same for the Fremont Ross boys soccer team.
The Little Giants won for the third time in their first four games of the season, 3-1 over Woodmore, doing so while dominating offensively for long stretches.
But while Ross dictated the pace of play, the Little Giants again had trouble generating, and cashing in on, quality scoring chances.
While it has become a trend thus far, coach Alex Coressel isn’t overly concerned and believes the offense will come around and find a rhythm.
“We’ve played four games in eight days, so it’s not like we’ve had a lot of practice time to work on correcting anything,” Coressel said. “We’re kind of just trying to save people’s legs and keeping them ready for the next (game) that comes up. Those are things we can start to correct when we get towards the end of next week. We play on Tuesday then we have a full week before we play again, so we can get some practice time and start getting some of those things corrected.”
Brady Wolfe opened the scoring Saturday with Alec Slemmer scoring a penalty kick to give Ross a 2-1 lead at halftime. Chris Navarro added an insurance goal in the second half.
“We played relatively good today. Not too bad,” Coressel said. “Rough field conditions. They have a grass field they also use for football, so the ball was taking some weird bounces. But we maintained possession for a large portion of the game and things kind of got sloppy where it was kind of kickball back and forth. We happened to be a little bit more talented and a little but faster and got on the end of a couple finishes.”
Freshman Logan Baacke picked up the win in goal.
“They only had a couple chances that were threats of any kind, but mostly it was down in their end,” Coressel said.
The Little Giants have a large test ahead of them as they host TRAC power St. Francis Tuesday at 5 p.m.
“We got work to do,” Coressel said.