Comets Fall 10-7 against Baltimore in Eastern Conference Championship
March 15, 2015 - Major Arena Soccer League (MASL)
Kansas City Comets News Release
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (March 15, 2015) - The Missouri Comets' 2014/15 season came to an end with a 10-7 loss against the Baltimore Blast in game two of the Major Arena Soccer League Eastern Conference Championship in front of 3,862 fans at the Independence Events Center.
Despite the efforts, head coach Vlatko Andonovski's team was unable to get passed Baltimore's defense, the best in the league. On the other hand, the Blast capitalized each one of their opportunities to advance to the Ron Newman Cup final.
The two sides came out to the field with an offensive mindset but it wasn't until the 10:47 mark when rookie Kiel Williams scored the first tally of the night assisted by Max Touloute to en the quarter 1-0 in favor of the Comets.
Five minutes into the second stanza, the visitors found the equalizer courtesy of Mike Deasel who buried a one-time shot past Goalkeeper of the Year finalist Danny Waltman to tie the match. Moments later, Lucas Roque and Tony Donatelli would increase the lead by two to make it 3-1.
The Paris, France native Alain Matingou shortened the lead at the 12:28 mark before Onua Obasi shot a rocket that found the back of the net making it 4-2 but with 0.01 seconds left in the half, John Sosa scored to end the half with a 4-3 score.
One more time, the visitors extended the lead when Vini Dantas dribbled past the defense to score his first one of the match making it 5-3. However, two back-to-back tallies from Bryan Perez and Josh Gardner tied the game at five but the visitors responded quickly with goals from Dantas and Donatelli to end the quarter 7-5.
Late in the fourth quarter, Dantas would complete a hat trick before Gardner and Gibson shortened the lead to one goal. With 1:15 left in the match, Andonovski put Sosa in as the sixth attacker, which ended up in two more goals for the Blast scored by Dos Santos and Houapeu to end the match 10-7.
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