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Published on: 10/5/2007
Last Visited: 10/6/2007
DECATUR â€" The Norwell Knights substantiated coach Jeremy Steele's theory about coaching Thursday night in the second match of the Bellmont IHSAA boys soccer sectional.
The Knights (5-10-1) paid back the New Haven Bulldogs for a regular season 2-0 Northeast Hoosier Conference loss by holding on to win 1-0.
Steele believes that whenever a team has beaten the Knights once in a season, they should win the second confrontation.
"I believe if we play two games in a season the second time around we should be capable of beating them, because we are aware of everything they are capable of doing and what they do strategically," Steele explained.
The Knights had been struggling to win since the season started, but they have been turning that around as of late.
"Personally, I felt like we had a very good chance of competing and winning this game tonight.The boys have been working really hard over the last couple weeks to get us where we need to be and it paid off tonight," said Steele.
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"It was No. 1 great hustle by Denney just to save the ball because it was nearly out," recalled Steele.
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So last night, Steele changed his team's defense to account for New Haven's offensive strategy.
"They run with three forwards and we were prepared for that.So, we just stuck another defender back there to mark up and negate that extra attacker on their part," said Steele.
The Knights also took away the Bulldogs' long ball attack.
"We made sure that we kept our depth all evening.We knew that they going to play nothing but long balls for the most part.The way you win over long balls is just stay back there and pick them off and not allow them to get in and win those," noted Steele.