Friars Tie with Islanders

FRIARS tie islanders 3-3

Rainy weather didn’t slow down the soccer showdown between the FD Friars and JFK Islanders with both teams playing to a 3-3 tie Wednesday evening.

Friar Jake Benito had a pair of goals to give the teams offense a much needed boost after the team has had troubles scoring this season.

“The weakest part of our game is goal scoring. We got three goals today and tied against the defending champions, so that was pretty big for us,” said Friars Shane Healy.

JFK got each of their goals from three different scorers, but none bigger than forward Tyler Pangelinan’s strike in the 71st minute to knot the game at 3-3, the teams second tie this year after just recently tying the Harvest Eagles Monday.

Pangelinan was in as in as a brief substitute for forward Kyle Perez and Pangelinan made the most of his minutes after using a through ball to kick home the equalizer in the second half.

FD spent majority of the game in the lead with JFK in an unusual position having to play catch up. Friar forward Vincent Cruz scored the games first goal at the 15th minute inside the box.

JFK responded fairly quick nine minutes later with Noah Duenas scoring the game tying goal. Duenas took a pass from the outside, used one move to get free, and rifled his kick past Friar goalie Cameron Miles.

Benito then checked into the contest scoring his first goal four minutes later after using his breakaway speed to create a one-on-one with the Islanders goalie. Benito’s shot was too far left and out of reach for the JFK goalie to react, giving FD the 2-1 advantage into the half.

The Islanders came out strong in the second half as defender Aljurell Grape took leaped in for a header off a corner kick to tie the game at two goals each. Grape was the beneficiary of a header off a teammate before his header hit net for the game tying score in the 45th minute.

Benito once again responded in just four minutes after taking a deep shot from the right side of the field for a score-splitting 3-2 lead in the 49th minute.

After a series of great defensive stops from both sides, Pangelinan powered home the Islanders third goal in just six minutes of play. Pangelinan checked back out of the game for Perez in the games final eight minutes.

taken from http://www.guamsportsnetwork.com/2015/soccer-friars-isladers-battle-to-a-tie/