“A lot of it was just intensity.” Jones said. Heading into halftime, even as the game looked under control, GW was dissatisfied with their performance. The London, England native calmly turned and put the ball in the top corner. Norris made his way to the endline and played a cross into senior forward Tiago Carvalho, who shanked his shot directly into the path of Haynes Brown. In the 39th minute, the Colonials doubled their lead from a reliable source. Going forward, he’s going to be a big part of what we do in terms of building out and also in terms of keeping more clean sheets.” To know that if we need to, we can rely on him as well. “It always helps us to be confident in our keeper. “Especially early on, had some big saves, some big plays for us.” Cedeno said. In the mess of bodies, the ball hit a Howard player’s hand and the referee awarded a free kick to GW, allowing the Colonials to breathe a sigh of relief. Senior defender Ryan Cedeno blocked another shot as the ball pinballed around the box. But Grady recovered and made an otherworldly save, fully extending his body and catching up with the ball to block it with his hands. Leggett brought it down, made his way past Grady and looked destined to even the score into an empty net. Moments later, a Howard defender played a peach of a ball over the top to junior forward Nathan Leggett behind GW’s defense. First, GW couldn’t capitalize on a dangerous ball from a corner kick and just seconds later, Norris was unable to keep his shot down on a 1v1 opportunity with the goalkeeper after a feed from Haynes Brown. There was a flurry of activity surrounding the 26th minute. However, Grady was there to answer the call, coming off his line quickly, making himself big and putting the ball out for a corner kick. GW junior defender Lucas Matuszewski coughed up the ball on top of his own box and sophomore forward Bryson Baker surged in on net. In the 22nd minute, Howard had their best chance of the game to that point. The goal wasn’t necessarily indicative of GW’s dominance early on, although the team had lots of half chances in the opening minutes. GW got the ball rolling in the 7th minute after senior midfielder Elias Norris turned the Bison (1-5-1) over in a dangerous spot, poked it past the defender and then into the far corner. But we created a lot of chances and we scored some good goals, so no complaints.” “I thought we could have killed the game a little bit and made it a little bit easier in the second half. “I’m a little disappointed in the first half, in how we played.” GW head coach Craig Jones said. This was GW’s first home victory against Howard since September 2, 1998. The series between the Colonials and the Bison now sits tied, with each team winning 20 matches to go along with six draws. It took them 90 minutes to score more goals than they could muster in 658 minutes last year. In fact, the team had a seven game stretch last season where they only scored four goals (September 28-October 23). This was GW’s largest margin of victory (and most goals scored in a match) since their 6-0 win over American in August of 2018. Meanwhile, senior goalkeeper Justin Grady played his best game of the season thus far, making eight saves. Graduate student forward Oscar Haynes Brown scored twice to extend his lead atop the Colonials goal scoring chart this season with five goals. GW men’s soccer moved to 4-2-2 (1-0 A-10) on the season after a resounding 5-0 victory over Howard on Wednesday afternoon.
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