Senior Boys Soccer - Season Recap

After a huge upset last year, most of our returning players were hungry for nothing short of a perfect season. Our season last year wasn’t reflected in the first game against CPHS when we only finished ahead by 1 goal that a new face had scored. 1-0 Notre Dame. We had to start to work and want it even more. PDCI was next on the list, at home Notre Dame where another shut-out by our keeper helped us to our second win of 4-0. We were off to Smiths Falls where we faced another team with a perfect record to date. Only one could prevail… after a penalty shot gave us our 2-1 victory, we left Smiths Falls but would see them again. Back at ND we faced Almonte, who scored first to put our perfect season in jeopardy. But solid coaching and captains’ leadership helped us win with a score of 4-1. We were at the last game of the regular season and it was not going to be easy. Our starting goalie was injured and out of the darkness Pat Britton shone. He played an amazing game to backstop us. St. Johns was the team that upset us in penalty shots in the finals last year and neither team had forgotten it. Though it was a good game, it was ended 5 minutes early after an unfortunate collision, which can only be blamed on the weather left a St. Johns defender unable to continue. The game ended in a 3-1 victory for Notre Dame, we had our perfect season. Next was semi-finals where we faced our cross-town rivals CPHS. Zach Farris, veteran striker, scored in the first minute and last minute giving us a tight but deserved 2-1 victory. The finals was a two game home-and-home set against SFDCI. Liam Robertson, a rookie on the senior team brought our team to life scoring 4 goals for Notre Dame and helping us to an 8-2 win. Special mention to Brian Zorgel and Ryan Merriman for giving SFDCI a bit of hope in the early part of the game with an own goal. Finally we were at home for our FINAL GAME. We couldn’t take the previous win for granted and so we kept practising and improving. When SFDCI arrived at Notre Dame our team played like we needed to and played well enough to win 2-0. Notre Dame had done it. Four years in the making, we had our perfect season and our LCIAA trophy. Special Thanks goes out to Ms. Lindsay Moreau our goal keeping coach, Danny Humber our camera-man, our great fans, the support from Principal Brady, and the Athletic Department.

Written by Team Captains: Ezra Wattie and Byron Kazda