AGUILAR STEPS UP FOR KENNEDY\KENNEDY 2, BIRMINGHAM 2.Byline: Lee Barnathan Special to the Daily News Kennedy High School boys' soccer coach Fred Singer Siegfried Frederick Singer (born September 27, 1924 in Vienna) is an electrical engineer and physicist. He is best known as President and founder (in 1990) of the Science & Environmental Policy Project, which disputes the prevailing scientific opinion on climate change. didn't did·n't Contraction of did not. didn't did not didn't do know the answer. With injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. scorers Adam Rofer and Andrew Newns unavailable, Singer didn't know who was going to step forward and pick up the slack 1. (operating system) slack - Internal fragmentation. Space allocated to a disk file but not actually used to store useful information. 2. (jargon) slack Friday against first-place Birmingham. The answer came, though: It was midfielder
In association football, a midfielder is a player whose position of play is midway between the attacking strikers and the defenders (highlighted in blue on the diagram). Jose Aguilar, who scored both goals in helping the Cougars (7-2-5, 3-1-2) to a 2-2 tie with the host Braves (7-0-2, 5-0-1) in a Northwest Valley Conference game. "That was seven goals I can't replace," Singer said of Rofer and Newns' absence. "I tried to figure out where to get our scoring from, and I decided we're going to get our scoring from the midfield mid·field n. Sports 1. The section of a playing field midway between goals. 2. Players whose usual positions are in the midfield. mid ." Each time Aguilar scored, it erased e·rase tr.v. e·rased, e·ras·ing, e·ras·es 1. a. To remove (something written, for example) by rubbing, wiping, or scraping. b. a Birmingham lead. In the 33rd minute, he saw a opening and drilled a shot to the left post from about 30 yards away. It didn't appear he had an open shot. It certainly appeared to have caught Birmingham goalie Peter Mastrocinque by surprise. He was closer to the left post than the right. "Our goalie was a little slow reacting to the shot," Birmingham coach Jose Freire said. "It was a well-placed shot, but it's not to be a score if the goalie was on it." "I see opportunity and I shoot," Aguilar said. "He (Mastrocinque) was close but the ball was bouncing the other way." Aguilar might not have seen the opening had the team not been practicing shooting from outside. In a drill Aguilar said the Cougars spend more than an hour with each practice, they work on shooting from beyond the 18-yard line. "Anytime they get to a point to shoot, I give them the authorization The right or permission to use a system resource; the process of granting access. See access control. to shoot," Singer said. "There's no need to dribble in close, like they want to." Aguilar's second goal was a penalty kick in the 67th minute after a Birmingham player had been called for a hand ball. Usually, midfielder Scott Ko takes these shots, but Ko said he missed the last one, and Aguilar said Singer gave him the chance. "He played so well that he deserved it," Ko said. Birmingham did one thing well: It scored from players crossing the ball to teammates in the middle. Gerardo Wence was involved both times. His cross in the 10th minute to Gabriel Ortega led to a 1-0 Braves lead, and he headed in a cross from Elmer Parada in the 56th minute. CAPTION(S): PHOTO Birmingham's Gerardo Wence, left, and Kennedy's Scott Ko chase the ball en route a 2-2 tie Friday. Gene Blevins / Special to the Daily News |
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