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Heat Notches First Win

October 11, 2002 - Major Indoor Soccer League 2 (MISL 2)
Harrisburg Heat News Release


San Diego, CA - Doug Petras made 23 saves and the Harrisburg Heat received goals from five different players as the team won its first game of the 2002-03 season, downing the San Diego Sockers by the score of 13-7 at San Diego Sports Arena on Friday night in the first-ever meeting between the two teams. With the win, Harrisburg is 1-1 on the season, while the Sockers fall to 1-2. Petras improves to 1-1, and Nick Vorberg (11 saves in goal for the Sockers) falls to 1-2 on the year.

Former Heater Carlos "Chile" Farias, who played nine games for Harrisburg in 1997-98, accounted for the first quarter's only scoring when he drilled a 2pg off a corner kick from Jimmy Wang at 12:29 of the first to make it 2-0, which is where it stood after one.

Harrisburg striker Renato Pereira, who spent the 2001 WISL season with the Sockers, evened things up at 2-2 with his first goal for the Heat at 13:45 of the second. San Diego had the answer in short order, as the Sockers' Shandley Phillips found himself open in the middle of the penalty area at 14:08 and put the hosts back on top with a deuce, and it was 4-2, Sockers, at the half.

The Heat's Genoni Martinez tied the game at 4-4 with his first tally of the year, a 2pg just 45 seconds into the third from Marco Coria. Matt Tanzini gave Harrisburg its first lead of the night at 12:10 when he stepped up to a restart fifteen feet outside the San Diego yellow line and ripped a 3pg past Vorberg for a 7-4 edge at the end of three quarters.

Chris Morman upped the Heat's advantage to 9-4 at 4:56 of the fourth when he took the rebound of his own shot and drilled a 2pg over Vorberg. It became 11-4 at 6:52 when Marco Coria popped a 2pg past Vorberg, but San Diego got themselves right back in it with a 3pg from Alejandro Cardenas at 7:06 to make it 11-7. Robbie Aristodemo entered the game as San Diego's sixth attacker with just under three minutes to go, but Coria extinguished San Diego's hopes with a 2pg at 14:13 to seal the 13-7 Heat win - the club's first under new head coach Erich Geyer.

NOTES: The Sockers outshot the Heat 39-24 in the contest...Renato Pereira, Genoni Martinez, and Ato Leone (with two assists) all recorded their first points with Harrisburg...Marco Lopez and Oswaldo Medina both made their Heat debuts...The Heat continues its season-opening four-game road trip tomorrow night in Dallas against the Sidekicks at Reunion Arena. Game time is 8:05 p.m. EST.

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