Today was the Spartans final game at the Historic Lang Field and for the seniors it was their final game ever game on Lang. The three captains, Nico "Swan" Olson Studler, Ryan "Giggles" Hobert and Gabe "G-Unit" Brennaman took to the field one last time, but today they were joined by three other seniors: Gabe "Messi" Chang, Paul "Chicken Kiev" Micevych and Nick Volpi (it feels awkward to give myself a blog mention).
The game was played against the Providence Academy Lions and was an important affair. The Spartans were looking to continue their undefeated record in Class A play to be able to vie for a number one seed in section playoffs and their second conference championship in the past three years. The game started off a little bit slow for Spartan standards because there was not a goal in the first five minutes, but then Gabe "G-Unit" Brennaman came through twice to bring the Spartans ahead. The Spartans dominated the game, they rarely allowing the Lions into their half of the field, and the Lions had no shots on target for the day. After G-Unit's first two goals (without a celebration, as usual), Gabe "Messi" Chang came through in what was in-arguably the best game of his varsity career. Messi kicked the ball past the goalie from the left side of the box with absolutely no angle, and when the ball went in even he couldn't believe it and had a delayed celebration. The die-hard Spartan hooligans were in attendance yet again, however this time they were not in Spartan Symphony form and without Drew Whitaker in Spartan form. However as usual you could hear their support on the field, and this time so much that the referee went to speak to them, which simply confused everybody in attendance at the game.
After the goal by Messi, Brennaman scored again, this time it was a wonder goal that would have the chance to be in SportCenter's Top 10 plays tomorrow morning. The G-Unit headed a ball from the top of the box with a splendid mix of power and finesse that it went straight into back of the net after looping over the goalies head. As usual however, there was more emotions shown by his teammates for the great effort by himself.However you could tell by the grin on his face that even the most modest man on this side of the Mississippi River was impressed. That capped yet another hat-trick for the G-Unit, and it was still only the first half.
Next Sam "Bulldog" Forsgren was able to stun us all with two more goals, his 20th and 21st of the season. I remind you yet again that he has scored in all ten games this season, meaning that he averages over 2 goals a game. He is now only 4 goals away from tying his older brother's tally from last season. It has become a habit for Forsgren to score, but fro his younger brother, Ikey "The Baby Faced Assasin" the passing game has been his strong point. Ikey had three assists in today's game and even though he is still searching for that first goal (that makes two of us)he is happy that he is contributing to the team with his 10 assists. He does not look like a typical Freshman out there, that is for sure.
The half ended with a goal by Paul "Chicken Kiev" Micevych, his first Varsity goal, an opportunistic strike which he put in after a huge scrum in the box. The second half was less eventful, but the Spartans still dominated the game and the Bulldog was able to put the cherry on top of the icing on top of the cake to finish the game 7-0. Ben "Beast" Braman and Matty "ICE" Fiedler both recorded yet another clean sheet and continued to show why they are two of the best keepers around.
On behalf of all the seniors Lang will be missed, on behalf of me I will miss the beautiful Lang bench with the perfect inclined backrest and I am sure it will miss me keeping it warm as well.
Your Spartans are now 9-1, ranked third in state and about to go on a road trip to finish off the regular season. Thursday night they will be hosted by the Breck Mustangs and Saturday morning they will have to go to New Richmond, Wisconsin for a game, a MINNESOTA State High School Game in WISCONSIN....
Word reached me afterwards that our lady counterparts also won their game at Providence academy 4-1.
Thank you all those who have come out to home games to support the squad this season, but the season is far from over and we will make sure that it does not end soon.
Go Spartans!
NV
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