Jacobs scores quickly, hangs in to down D-C

Posted October 05, 2009 11:00 pm

By Brian Schaumburg Daily Herald Correspondent

Fourteen seconds Tuesday was all it took for the Jacobs boys soccer team to do something it couldn't do in 80 minutes Saturday.

The Golden Eagles scored just 14 seconds into Tuesday's Fox Valley Conference Valley Division matchup against Dundee-Crown and held on for a 2-1 victory in Carpentersville.

"It was a relief," said Jacobs junior captain Taylor Pignataro. "We wanted to come out as strong as we could and get some confidence."

The Chargers (2-11-2, 0-8) shut out Jacobs (5-8-2, 4-4) in the each team's final game of the Jacobs tournament Saturday. That was the Golden Eagles' fourth match in three games and they were short-handed with several players out because of injury and illness, which was a big difference in the two matches, according to Pignataro.

D-C took possession to open Tuesday's match and worked the ball to its defense. Matt Dziadkowiec stole the ball from a Chargers defender and fired a shot. His shot beat D-C goalkeeper Edit Fuentes, but the ball hit the left post. The rebound went right in front of the net. Jonathan Kowalski beat the Chargers defense to the ball and scored to give the Golden Eagles the early lead.

"I was sick to my stomach on that," D-C coach Rey Vargas said. "It was a stupid mistake in the back. Then they clean it up because we just stood and watched it."

Dziadkowiec gave Jacobs a 2-0 lead with 26:48 remaining in the first half off a feed from Pignataro.

D-C struggled to create many scoring opportunities and looked like it would be shutout and suffer another 2-0 loss to the Golden Eagles as they did in the team's earlier Valley Division matchup. But Kyle Hagan found himself alone at the top of the box and fired a shot past Jacobs goalkeeper AJ Pfatschbacher with 3:52 left in the match.

"Looks like we started playing with about 3 minutes left," Vargas said. "We turned up the intensity and started getting some opportunities."

Jacobs athletic director Tom Ross was on the sideline as coach Jim Dzialo and assistant coach AJ Cappello were not at the match.

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