Carroll County – Radford Boys Soccer match Monday night was a tale of two halves as the Cavaliers did their best to protect our Hill !

The Bobcats are now 11-3 on the season and are primed for yet another run in the upcoming State Tournament. Their only setbacks were to Glenvar twice and once to Blacksburg. So when Radford went into the halftime break leading 2-0 it was not a surprise to anyone.

If one wasn’t inside Tommy Thompson Field last night all they would know is Radford High defeated our Cavaliers and the final score was 4-2 in a Three Rivers District match.

Six minutes in, Luciano Pugliese scored the opening goal and the game remained 1-0 until Radford converted a penalty kick at 19:12.

Halftime involved a touching tribute to Carroll County Principal Chuck Thompson and an acknowledgment of the young ladies that have been helping Head Coach Forrest Johnson all season.

The second half started and quickly went down hill for the Cavaliers. Three minutes in, Robert Fuksz  took a pass from Tommaso Brianzi to make it 3-0.

At 31:23 Brianzi pushed the deficit to 4-0 with an unassisted goal. The nice crowd, using the Home bleachers, the Junior Varsity 2-1 victory and the tribute to the Track 👣 and Field teams ➕ Chuck Thompson had not moved the needle to that point.

But then something happened that flipped the script as the Cavaliers absolutely dominated the final 30 minutes of play.

Landon Puckett converted a Penalty Kick at 20:29 so CCHS avoided the whitewash. Four minutes later, Puckett found Samuel Collins with a touch pass but the Radford keeper was able to make the save.

At 15:53, Oliver Lopez showed off his booming leg 🦵and put the Biscuit in the basket 🧺. Now the match was 4-2 and Uncle Mo (jo) was clearly playing for the home team.

Two minutes later the Cavs had three straight Corner kicks where they flirted with making it 4-3. Harper Parnell found Hez Mejia and that duo almost pulled the team to within one goal.

” They did everything that I asked to do tonight,” said Head Coach Forrest Johnson. ” Especially there in the second half, we had some opportunities. Very proud of our resilience.”

Carroll County Varsity Boys will close out the regular season Wednesday night as part of the rare Varsity doubleheader. Mr Ches Helmick and Edward Jones have covered the gate for Wednesday night as did OneofUs.Care on Monday night.