Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Power and Ziegler are a handful

Woodstock Academy coach Jason Gerum came over to me at midfield as we watched his Centaurs battle the East Lyme Vikings in a boys soccer game on Wednesday and had one question.
"I wonder what their goal-to-shot ratio is?," Gerum questioned.
I only had a two-word answer for him, "pretty good."
The Vikings, at one point in the second half, had only three shots on goal- two of them found their way into the net.
That's what happens when you have players like Phil Ziegler and Gary Power. Ziegler is noew the school's all-time leading scorer and , not surprisingly , Power is now the all-time playmaker. Put that together and it spells more than trouble for opponents.
What's worse, the Vikings continue to put things together and could be primed for a run like last season. A run that carried them into a state championship game.
"We've had a very tough schedule and the only game we've lost in the past three weeks was to Waterford," East Lyme coach Paul Christensen said.
"We've fought back and started the momentum going again- we've played our best soccer in the last three days," he added. "We've come together as a team - it took a little while longer than I hoped - but this is the time of year that we want to play."
Ziegler finished with two goals on Wednesday to give him 26 on the season. Power helped on one of those to give him 23 assists on the season.
"This was a great way to end the season and go into the tournament on a high," Ziegler said of the Woodstock win. "Hopefully it ends like last year, in the finals."

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