Anthony Wayne rolls the Knights - Evan Black's 2 goals gives the Generals' the right boost

Whitehouse - In a game that was postponed for 2 weeks Anthony Wayne and St. Francis de Sales finally did battle where they ended out on the campus of Anthony Wayne.  The game resumed at 28:49 remaining in the first half and SFS drew first blood within the first 5 minutes - senior Jake Micham broke through and was clipped in the box by Generals' senior Chris Jackson giving the Knights a penalty...Micham converted and gave the Knights an early lead and that is when Anthony Wayne took over from there.  Senior Evan Black 3 minutes after Micham's goal responded with a goal of his own taking a rip from the left corner of the box putting it past SFS goalkeeper Logan McNamara off the far post to make it 1-0 assisted by Colin Mortemore - less than 3 minutes after Mortemore got free in behind the SFS defense and nicely chipped the ball to the top shelf of the goal making it 2-0 Generals.  Mortemore would take a ball down to the corner to blast a ball across the mouth of goal and senior Jared Russell would put the ball away making it 3-1 with 17 minutes remaining in the first half.  In the second half the Generals continued to press the Knights causing a lot of issues to generate anything going forward - with under 20 minutes to go a lightning delay stopped play for about 75 minutes but the Generals would not let the delay take them out of rhythm.  Evan Black would score his second goal of the match with under 15 minutes to play to seal the deal over the Knights (#2 in NWO Soccer Weekly Power Poll) 4-1.  "I was very proud of our boys' performance tonight, we came relaxed and just played to our potential" said AW head coach Brian Billings.  "If you look at our record - we have lost to the #1 and 4 ranked team in the state - I think we are a team that can play with anyone in District and State - we have to let the process work itself out and just be ready for when opportunity arises".  Anthony Wayne improves to 6-5-2 and will travel to #7 Dublin Coffman Saturday and finish the NLL regular season with Bowling Green and will host Dayton-power Bellbrook.  St. Francis de Sales falls to 8-3-1 and will end their regular season with very tough tilts including a trip to Cleveland back-to-back weekends visiting Westlake and Lakewood St. Edward and on Thursday night they will look forward to keep their TRAC title hopes alive when they host fierce rival St. John's Jesuit.  

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