Steamers' Carlos Farias Records Six-Point Night In Victory
Published on March 26, 2005 under Major Indoor Soccer League 2 (MISL 2)
St. Louis Steamers News Release
ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Steamers defeated the Kansas City Comets 9-6 on Saturday night at Savvis Center. The win improves the Steamers record to 18-15 while the Comets fall to 12-19 on the season. With the win and the loss by the Cleveland Force, the Steamers have taken over third place in the MISL standings by a half game.
Kansas City scored the games first two goals in the first quarter. Former Steamer Ibrahim Kante notched an unassisted tally at 2:48 of the quarter and Dino Delevski followed up with another Comets goal at the 7:12 mark. St. Louis responded on the powerplay when Carlos Farias scored while Joe Reiniger registered an assist. Kansas City regained their two-goal lead when James Koehler fired a shot past Steamers goalkeeper Brett Phillips. The Steamers came back with a goal by Fernando Errecalde with Randy Soderman recording the assist. Daryl Doran fed Sterling Wescott on a re-start opportunity at 12:15 of the second quarter and would tie the score at 3-3 going into halftime.
St. Louis gained their first lead of the game at 2:36 when Reiniger scored on the powerplay on an assist from Farias. Marco Lopez pushed the lead to two for the Steamers when he took a long pass from Phillips and buried the shot over the head of Comets goalkeeper Chris Damico. However, Kansas City responded quickly with two goals by Delevski and Kante to tie the score at 5-5. St. Louis would storm back with three unanswered goals in the third quarter by Mariano Bollella and two more tallies by Farias which would be his third of the game, and the Steamers took at 8-5 lead into the final quarter.
Farias would score his fourth goal at 4:09 and also his sixth point (4g, 2a) of the game on a re-start opportunity at the top of the penalty box. The last Steamer to record four goals in a game was Mike Apple on Nov. 20, 2004 at Baltimore. Kansas City would score with the sixth attacker at 11:23 of the quarter but it was not enough as the Steamers went on to win by the score of 9-6.
The Steamers capped off a weekend home sweep by winning on Friday and Saturday evening. St. Louis will be home on Saturday, April 2 when they play host to the Philadelphia Kixx at 7:05 p.m. before traveling to Chicago on Sunday, April 3 to take on the Storm at 7:00 p.m.
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