THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, May 21, 1996 TAG: 9605210458
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C7 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY LEE TOLLIVER, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH LENGTH: Medium: 73 lines
Tallwood High was nearly upset city for two Eastern Region boys soccer quarterfinals Monday.
Deep Creek opened the evening by shocking defending champion Lafayette, 3-2 in two sudden death overtimes. Kellam, the top-ranked team in the final regular season South Hampton Roads poll, followed with a 1-0 double overtime victory over unranked Granby.
With the victories, the Hornets and the Knights advanced to a 7:30 p.m. semifinal Wednesday at Tallwood. Kempsville and Gloucester, winners Monday in Williamsburg, meet at 5:30 p.m.
Deep Creek (12-4) avoided going to penalty kicks when Jeremy Shockley beat Rams keeper Adam Webb with 1:21 left in the second sudden death period and dished to Cory Boone for the victory.
``I just didn't want it to go to penalty kicks,'' Boone said. ``We worked too hard for something cheap like that to happen.''
Lafayette coach Bob Behncke felt the same way. In the second sudden death, he moved sweeper Steve Sachs to the midfield to help add offensive punch. But when Deep Creek went hard to the offensive, he was left a man short on defense.
``I prefer to win or lose in regulation,'' Behncke said. ``We played badly and I don't know what it was. But I didn't want penalty kicks, so I took a chance.''
Deep Creek took a 1-0 lead with 5:04 left in the first half on a goal by Marlo Maglaland off a Boone assist. Lafayette (10-5-2) tied it with 25:19 left to play when Shawn Price headed in a beautiful feed from Paul Sisk. The Rams went ahead when Andy Crapol stole the ball, passed to Shawn Prince and then took a pass back and beat a charging Nick Shockley with an easy poke.
The Hornets tied it about a minute later when Lafayette's Brian Marer was whistled for dragging down Joe Verdi in the penalty box and Maglalang nailed the ensuing penalty kick.
Kellam (13-3-1) avoided the Rams' fate with 1:30 left in the first of two regulation overtimes when Ed Stockunas took a feed from Bryan Daniels and blasted a shot off Granby defender Kevin Meyer, who had dashed in to help keeper Philip Shea.
Kellam had an apparent goal 30 seconds into play when Stockunas beat Shea off a pass from Dustin Keesee. But the play was ruled offsides.
``We just couldn't finish and it was very frustrating,'' Stockunas said. ``In the beginning, we didn't think about that called-back goal. But as it went on, we started to think about it.
Kellam finished with a 22-7 shooting advantage over Granby (9-7-1).
``I'm still thrilled at the way we played. It was the game of the season for us,'' Granby coach Mike Kennedy said. ``We even had some chances.''
In quarterfinal games played at Lafayette:
Kempsville 4, Maury 0: The Eastern District champion Commodores (10-4-2) made a game of it for a half, trailing 1-0. But Kempsville (14-2-1), the Beach District winner, continued to apply the pressure in the second half and won going away.
Phil Robillard opened the scoring by converting a steal into a goal 25 minutes into the first half. Robillard scored again 15 minutes into the second half. Joe Moriarity and Chase Cooper completed the scoring.
The Chiefs, who play Gloucester, a 2-0 victor over Churchland, in Wednesday night's semifinal at Tallwood, outshot Maury, 33-2. Commodores goalie Aaron Neathery made 26 saves.
``We played very well, but we didn't finish well,'' said Kempsville coach Kevin Denson. ``We're going to have to focus more if we're going to move on in this tournament.'' ILLUSTRATION: L. TODD SPENCER
Deep Creek's Keith Singler rushes to meet goaltender Nick Shockley
after the Hornets upset defending Eastern Region champ Lafayette 3-2
in four overtimes Monday.
by CNB