Shorewood defeats Shorecrest 2-1 for District soccer championship as both head for State playoffs
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
The Shorewood boys’ soccer team defeated Shorecrest 2-1 for the Northwest District 3A championship Saturday at Shoreline Stadium.
Both teams now play in State 3A playoff first-round games Tuesday and Wednesday.
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| Photo by Geoff Vlcek |
In the Saturday district championship game, Shorewood senior Dylan Collins drilled a long shot just inside the right post to break a tie with six minutes to play to give the Thunderbirds the 2-1 win over crosstown rival Shorecrest.
The biggest soccer crowd at Shoreline Stadium in years was treated to passionate play on a (finally) warm spring evening.
The T-Birds (12-3-4) will play host to Nathan Hale of Seattle in a first-round State playoff game at 7:30pm Tuesday at Shoreline Stadium.
The Scots (15-4) will travel to Vancouver Wednesday to face Columbia River at 7pm at Kiggins Bowl.
Kabir Khan opened the scoring five minutes into the district championship game to give the T-Birds a 1-0 lead.
With fifteen minutes to play in the second half, Shorecrest's Jonathan Luna-Blanco headed in a perfectly placed free kick from Leon Bormann to tie the game.
After Collins' goal broke the tie, the Scots threw everything they had at Thunderbird goalkeeper Isaac Whitaker, but the athletic sophomore rejected every tying attempt that came his way.
With the win, the T-Birds take the season series 2-1 over the Scots.
With the teams in different halves of the State tournament bracket, Shorecrest and Shorewood couldn’t meet again until May 31 in either the State championship game or the State third-place game.
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