Chamblee Bulldogs keeper Julian Quirk makes a save to keep the Bulldogs in front during first half action of a 4-2 overtime win over the Cross Keys Indians. (Photo by Mark Brock)
Chamblee Bulldog Sam Brown scored two goals, one in overtime, to aid his team in a 4-2 Region 4-5A overtime win over the Cross Keys Indians on Tuesday night at North DeKalb Stadium.
Both of Brown’s goals came on penalty kicks, the second of which proved to be the game winner as he put the Bulldogs up 3-2 with 1:48 left in the first 10-minute overtime period. A penalty on Cross Keys put goalkeeper Juan Salazar in a tough position for the second time in the game as he had to try to stop the kick from point blank range. Brown hit it low into the right corner to give Chamblee the lead for good.
The Bulldogs (2-6-0, 1-0)sealed the 4-2 win in the second overtime period as he took a pretty pass out front from Jonaton Vasquez and put it in the goal with 3:50 to play in the game.
Cross Keys could not get the ball in the goal as Chamblee keeper Julian Quirk put up four saves, one of which came with 8:46 to play in the game to keep Chamblee in the lead at 3-2.
Chamblee took the early 1-0 lead on a Henry Peacock goal with 29:12 left in the first half. Benjamin Gilboa got back on defense just in time as a Cross Keys striker got loose and appeared ready to tie the game up with 26:30 left in half as he dodged quirk and had an empty net in front of him. Gilboa showed up just in time to block the kick to maintain the Bulldog’s 1-0 advantage.
Cross Keys’ Johnathan Gutierrez finally got Cross Keys (3-5-2, 0-2) on the board as his free kick from the left side curved into the top left corner of the goal to make the game all-square at 1-1 with 6:22 to play in the first half.
Quick kept the score at 1-1 at the half with a save on another Cross Keys free kick with 3:44 to play.
Brown got the first of his two goals just 23 seconds into the second half as a penalty call set him up for the first penalty kick. He converted to make it 2-1.
Chamblee held the 2-1 lead until the 10:46 mark when Eduardo Mora drove into the front of the net to score the tying goal. Two minutes later Cross Keys looked to have taken the lead, but the goal was disallowed for an offsides call.
Salazar assured the Indians of an overtime as he came out of goal to stop a Chamblee break away in the middle of the field with 5:44 to play.
Chamblee junior Solai Washington works against Cross Keys goalie Karely Torres during early first half action of Chamblee’s 10-0 win. (Photo by Mark Brock)
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Chamblee 10, Cross Keys 0
Solai Washington and Regan Drummond both scored two goals to lead the No. 1 ranked Chamblee Lady Bulldogs to a 10-0 Region 4-5A win over the Cross Keys Lady Indians (1-7, 0-2) in the opening game at North DeKalb on Tuesday night.
Washington scored her two goals in the first three minutes of the game on assists from Kara Croone and her sister, Alexandra Washington to give Chamblee a quick 2-0 advantage.
Croone was next to score as she got the deflection of the Cross Keys goalie into the empty side of the net to make it 3-0 with 35:51 to play in the first half. Croone picked up her second assist of the half as she fed Kyla Osbourne just 27 seconds later for a 4-0 lead.
Alexandra Washington passed to Ansley Harrison who put the ball into the net to notch her second assist with 33:25 to play.
Drummond got into the scoring act putting the ball into the net twice in 28 seconds to extend the margin to 7-0. Cami Maynor made it 8-0 at the half.
Two Cassidy’s teamed up for the ninth goal as Cassidy Poole got an assist to Cassidy Kuehne with 15:01 to play in the game. Alexandra Washington added to her two first half assists with a second half goal to make the final of 10-0.
Chamblee (10-0-1) had 21 shots on goal in the game with 10 scores while Cross Keys goalie Karely Torres had seven saves.