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Fair/Summit

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THOMPSON’S STATION—The Fairview Yellow Jackets came back from an early 1-0 deficit to down the Summit Spartans 2-1 on Friday. 

Aggressive play and great ball control made the difference for the Yellow Jackets and head coach Shane Smith felt that this was the best his team played all year in the early part of the season.

“Good things can only happen if you’re shooting.” Smith said “You’ll never know when the one is going to go in. I’ll take a shot wide, I’ll take a shot over the goal rather than no shot at all.”

Although the Spartans could not be as aggressive with possession as they wanted to, they did score first with crossing shot from Elijah Mooney in the 13thminute of the first half.

“He is our main goal scorer,” Summit coach Dustin Butler said. “My attacking midfielder Lennyn Torres had an opportunity to pull the trigger to shoot yet he laid it off to Elijah, very unselfish on his part.”

However, late in the first half, Fairview got the equalizer from Ethan Shelley. Then three minutes later, the Jackets took the lead with a goal from Brandon Parrish.

 

 

“It was great work by our strikers to fend off the defender and to be able to win the header and drop it back,” Parrish said. “Cam (Chappell) had a good first touch and set himself up for a good pass and made it easy for me.”

“Brandon just ran to the goal,” Smith said. “If you’re not going to the goal and attacking the goal you’re not going to win a game. We’re a strong defensive team but we’ve got to go to the goal to have results like this.”

Summit’s lack of aggression and ball watching ultimately cost the Spartans the game, according to Butler. 

“The 50/50 balls are part of it,” he said. “But the real problem that’s been bothering me is we get caught watching the ball and watching the play unfold in the middle of the box and the person that their marking just stops and waits and our momentum just carries us towards the goal. They play the ball across and he’s wide open.”

The Spartans had an opportunity to score the tying goal, but they were called offside, which halted their momentum. Fairview held on in the final five minutes to preserve the win. 

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