Andover Boys Varsity Soccer continued their good form this year, earning victories over Choate Rosemary Hall and Winchedon.
Jonathan Westling ’12 scored the first goal of the game against Choate, netting a ball off of a corner kick from Taylor Chin ’14. Capitalizing offensively, Andover soon raised its lead to 2-0 as Sam Hewat ’12 passed the ball to Michael Bloom ’12. Bloom then tried to cross the pass to Chin, but the ball hit a Choate defender and went into the net.
Later in the game, helped by another pass from Hewat, Bloom netted Andover’s third and final goal of the game. Hewat ran past a Choate defender and got to the endline, where he passed across the goal, allowing Bloom to finish the play and put Andover 3-0 over Choate.
Choate scored with around 20 minutes remaining and once more in the final minute of the game. Despite Choate’s efforts, Andover maintained control of the field for a final 3-2 victory.
“Everyone knew this was a big game in our schedule. Because Choate was 5-1 and had beaten Exeter 2-0, we knew that if we beat them, we would be making a statement to the other teams in the league,” said Hewat.
Andover took its second win of the week against Winchendon with a 5-0 shutout.
Nick DiStefano ’14 scored the Andover’s first goal during the first half. Then, with about seven minutes remaining in the half, Andover struck again. After being called up from junior-varsity, Tyler Olkowski ’13 scored his first goal for the varsity team in his first game with varsity soccer. Westling took the initial shot after receiving a ball from Bloom, and Olkowski pounced on the rebound at the six-yard box, bringing the score to 2-0 as at the half.
Joe Yonga, Assistant Coach said, “It took us a while to score, but once we did, things started to open up for us. It was a little tighter in the first half, but we made it a point to kind of come out early in the second half and get an early goal to kind of finish it off, and we did.”
Shortly after halftime, Mott scored his first goal of the season. He had the ball close in front of the goal, and the shot went in off of a rebound.
Andover added another goal to the board less than 10 minutes later, when Chin assisted Hewat to raise the score 4-0.
In the 73rd minute of the game, Kim put in his first goal of the season from the six-yard box to end the game with a 5-0 win for Andover.
Andover looks to continue its wining streak when it faces Tilton School this Saturday.
