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Priory Soccer Shutting Down Opponents

The Rebels are 3-0, with three shutout wins after their 5-0 blitz of Wentzville Holt.

O’FALLON–The 2010 boys varsity soccer season seemed like a magic carpet ride for the Rebels.

By the end of the regular season, the team was 18-3 and top-ranked in almost every local small school soccer poll, after earning victories over nearly every other team in those rankings, and winning back the ABC League championship—the Rebels fifth in the last six years--after losing out to rival MICDS in 2009.

But then a funny thing happened on the way to what was expected to be a state championship run for the high-flying Rebels: they were defeated in the first round.

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“It was just one of those days,” Priory head coach John Mohrmann said. “Both teams played a great game. But one of their kids got free and let go a laser beam shot, and we lost 1-0.

“For the guys that are back this year, that’s something we haven’t forgotten. Even if things are going well, and we’re winning some games, I think we will remember that at any moment you could have (something go against you).”

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So far in 2011 though, very little has gone against the Rebels, who are once again the No. 1 team in the area small school rankings, and already own a 3-0 record, with shutout wins in all three games, after claiming a 5-0 decision over Holt High School, in the semifinals of the Fast Lane Super Cup Tournament, Thursday night at St. Dominic High.

“It turned out to be (easier) than I thought,” Mohrmann said. “All the teams in this tournament are good. It was just a couple of early goals go in, we got our confidence up, and we had a little bit of breathing room.”

Rebel standouts Andrew Rhodes, Jacob Mohrmann, and Sam Newman each scored their second goals of the season for Priory on Thursday, while teammates Kyle Collins and Andy Kopfensteiner netted their first tallies of the season.

“For the first 15 minutes, we were good, we hung in there,” Holt head coach Frank Livingston said. “Then we kind of gave up a bad goal. Then we kind of put our heads down.”

And by halftime, that 1-0 slip-up had turned into a 3-0 bulge, and quite a tall task to overcome against the No. 1 team in the area.

The Fast Lane Cup championship game between Oakville and Priory is set for Saturday with an approximate opening kickoff scheduled for 5:30 p.m.

Priory’s next home game, a highly-anticipated showdown with MICDS, is scheduled for 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, September 15.

 

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FIRST HALF

Priory: Sam Newman (2), 25:00

Priory: Kyle Collins (1), 13:20

Priory: Jacob Mohrmann (2), 11:16

SECOND HALF

Priory: Andrew Rhodes (2), 24:25

Priory: Andy Kopfensteiner (1), 9:15

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