Gilbert boys soccer falls to Wamogo 3-2


 

WINSTED — Soccer season is winding down, and although the Gilbert boys varsity team will not make it to the postseason, the squad is finishing out its remaining games in high spirits and with considerable effort. Gilbert faced Wamogo at home Friday, Oct. 24, losing with a final score of 3-2.

Both teams moved the ball carefully early in the first, putting together clean passes and avoiding errors. Wamogo was quick to score, firing a shot off in close range and beating Gilbert goalkeeper Martin Brown to take the lead, 1-0.

Gilbert shook off the early Wamogo strike and replied with a tying goal from Alec Brochu, putting the game at 1-1. Gilbert was particularly good at working the ball forward along the edges, and then centering the ball near Wamogo’s net to come up with chances.

Play began to even out midway through the first half, with neither side pressing hard and both moving the ball with consideration, fearing they may give up a bad turnover that could shift the momentum.Late in the first half, Wamogo had a few attempts on goal using quick shots and headers around Gilbert’s net, but were unable to put anything past the Gilbert defense. Brown came up with a number of good saves when Wamogo did break through, keeping the score even at 1-1 at halftime.

Gilbert came out of the break strong, and immediately set up in Wamogo’s end. Gilbert kept the ball moving toward the net, trying to outwork the Wamogo defensive game. Wamogo struggled to move the ball cleanly out of their end, and found themselves on their heels. Gilbert pressed the attack, barraging Wamogo with scoring attempts while Wamogo just tried to clear play out of their own end.

Wamogo finally pushed their way out of their end and quickly took advantage of a breakaway, scoring with a low shot just out of Brown’s reach and taking the lead in the second, 2-1. The Gilbert defense was not as quick to recover from this goal as they were from the first, and Wamogo put in another, extending their lead to 3-1 with plenty of time left in the second.

Gilbert collected themselves and went back on the attack, setting up a perfect header by Josh Louis off a corner kick that closed the gap to just one goal. Gilbert continued to keep the pressure high, coming with up a lot of close calls and near misses, but were unable to score before the finish. Gilbert took the loss at home, Wamogo 3, Gilbert 2. Wamogo’s Joe Phalen tallied a hat trick.

Latest News

South Kent School’s unofficial March reunion

Elmarko Jackson was named a 2023 McDonald’s All American in his senior year at South Kent School. He helped lead the Cardinals to a New England Prep School Athletic Conference (NEPSAC) AAA title victory and was recruited to play at the University of Kansas. This March he will play point guard for the Jayhawks when they enter the tournament as a No. 4 seed against (13) Samford University.

Riley Klein

SOUTH KENT — March Madness will feature seven former South Kent Cardinals who now play on Division 1 NCAA teams.

The top-tier high school basketball program will be well represented with graduates from each of the past three years heading to “The Big Dance.”

Keep ReadingShow less
Hotchkiss grads dancing with Yale

Nick Townsend helped Yale win the Ivy League.

Screenshot from ESPN+ Broadcast

LAKEVILLE — Yale University advanced to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament after a buzzer-beater win over Brown University in the Ivy League championship game Sunday, March 17.

On Yale’s roster this year are two graduates of The Hotchkiss School: Nick Townsend, class of ‘22, and Jack Molloy, class of ‘21. Townsend wears No. 42 and Molloy wears No. 33.

Keep ReadingShow less
Handbells of St. Andrew’s to ring out Easter morning

Anne Everett and Bonnie Rosborough wait their turn to sound notes as bell ringers practicing to take part in the Easter morning service at St. Andrew’s Church.

Kathryn Boughton

KENT—There will be a joyful noise in St. Andrew’s Church Easter morning when a set of handbells donated to the church some 40 years ago are used for the first time by a choir currently rehearsing with music director Susan Guse.

Guse said that the church got the valuable three-octave set when Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center closed in the late 1980s and the bells were donated to the church. “The center used the bells for music therapy for younger patients. Our priest then was chaplain there and when the center closed, he brought the bells here,” she explained.

Keep ReadingShow less
Picasso’s American debut was a financial flop
Picasso’s American debut was a financial flop
Penguin Random House

‘Picasso’s War” by Foreign Affairs senior editor Hugh Eakin, who has written about the art world for publications like The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and The New York Times, is not about Pablo Picasso’s time in Nazi-occupied Paris and being harassed by the Gestapo, nor about his 1937 oil painting “Guernica,” in response to the aerial bombing of civilians in the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War.

Instead, the Penguin Random House book’s subtitle makes a clearer statement of intent: “How Modern Art Came To America.” This war was not between military forces but a cultural war combating America’s distaste for the emerging modernism that had flourished in Europe in the early decades of the 20th century.

Keep ReadingShow less