SOCCER\Slow start, furious finish for La Canada in Rio Hondo opener\LA CANADA 3, SAN MARINO 3.Byline: Lee Barnathan Special to the Daily News This was not the way Nick Andrus wanted to start Rio Hondo Rio Hondo may refer to:
San Marino (săn mərē`nō), residential city (1990 pop. 12,959), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1913. Of interest is the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. , no less. Andrus, the leading scorer for the top-ranked La Canada High School boys' soccer team, found himself being frustrated frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: , first by being marked closely and constantly, then by having two goals called back. It led to his earning a yellow card for arguing a referee's call. But he later righted himself and scored the team's first goal, which opened the floodgates and sent the undefeated Spartans (11-0, 1-0) to a 3-0 victory at San Marino (9-2-1, 0-1). It is no secret that La Canada did not play a strong nonleague schedule. Coach Louie Bilowitz was concerned it would play a factor in this match, which featured the league's top two teams. "A couple of games, we'd score in the first 20 seconds and just blow teams away," Andrus said. "Sometimes, it takes time to get started." It did for Andrus. Seventeen minutes in, it appeared he had scored when he lifted a shot over San Marino goalie Michael Catherwood. But the referee A judicial officer who presides over civil hearings but usually does not have the authority or power to render judgment. Referees are usually appointed by a judge in the district in which the judge presides. called Andrus for high-kicking. "I can see what he was saying, but I didn't think it was high-kicking," Andrus said later. But at the time, he appeared upset at the call. Five minutes later, he was yellow-carded for arguing a call that didn't involve him. That earned him a trip to the bench. It was the best thing to happen to him, he said. "I got carded, so I came off, relaxed a little. I didn't want to get my second yellow," he said. When he returned a few minutes later, he was quieter. In the 38th minute, off a pass from Josh Sweeney, he scored the team's first goal and his 20th of the season. The ball took a bad hop and bounced over the arms of a diving A DIV Associate of Divinity Catherwood. "A fluke fluke, parasitic flatworm of the trematoda class, related to the tapeworm. Instead of the cilia, external sense organs, and epidermis of the free-living flatworms, adult flukes have sucking disks with which they cling to their hosts and an external cuticle that goal like that, I said to Nick, 'Nick, are you going to take that goal?' " Bilowitz said. "I think it loosened them up. We played much better in the second half." Suddenly, it was 3-0 with just five minutes gone in the second half. Chap Early drilled a shot off a head pass from Cameron Adams, and Jason Cropley, who saw a first-half goal negated because he was offside off·side also off·sides adv. & adj. 1. Sports Illegally ahead of the ball or puck in the attacking zone. 2. , scored from Adams. |
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