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Heat Defeats Archrivals in Overtime

November 9, 2002 - Major Indoor Soccer League 2 (MISL 2)
Harrisburg Heat News Release


Harrisburg, PA - Ze Roberto, playing in his first game of the season, scored the game-winning 2pg at 8:26 of overtime to give the Harrisburg Heat (4-3) a 14-12 victory over the archrival Baltimore Blast in front of 5,130 fans at the Farm Show Arena on Saturday night. Doug Petras (3-1) made 23 saves in net for the win, while Scott Hileman (13 saves) gets the loss.

At 2:30 of the first, David Bascome found Marco Coria for a 2pg to open the scoring and make it 2-0. Genoni Martinez followed with a power-play deuce at 8:50 to make it 4-0 before Billy Nelson got Baltimore on the board at 13:29. Harrisburg led 4-2 after one.

After Baltimore's Jason Dieter was whistled for a handball in the box, David Bascome converted the penalty kick at 3:59 of the second, and Harrisburg took a 6-2 lead into halftime.

A trio of third-quarter 2pgs - by Bascome at 6:30, Marco Lopez at 8:21, and Martinez at 14:41 - gave the Heat a commanding 12-4 lead at the end of three quarters. But Baltimore was not done.

Beginning at 3:20 of the fourth, the Blast rattled off four straight 2pgs, the last coming off the foot of Giuliano Celenza at 11:24 to tie the game at 12-12. Neither team was able to finish the game in regulation, sending the Heat to its second consecutive overtime contest.

Harrisburg saw the majority of the chances in the extra stanza, outshooting the Blast 8-2, but it was not until Ato Leone dug out a ball along the left boards and poked it across the crease to a sliding Ze Roberto that the Heat was able to dent the twine. Roberto's deuce, his first in the MISL since the 2000-01 season, ended the contest and gave Harrisburg the 14-12 win.

NOTES: This overtime contest follows the Heat's 6-4 O.T. loss to the Philadelphia KiXX last Sunday... Harrisburg was whistled for a season-high 22 fouls in the game...The Heat remains perfect on the penalty kill this year, now 6-6 after killing a pair of penalties against the Blast...Ato Leone finished with two assists for the Heat. Coria and Marco Lopez (who scored his first goal of the year) recorded three points apiece...The Heat's four-game homestand completes tomorrow with a 6:05 p.m. kickoff against the Kansas City Comets.

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