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HLA Boys Soccer Team Defeats St. Johns Prep at Danielson Field

By Rod Jensen, 09/26/22, 9:30PM CDT

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The Hillcrest Lutheran Academy Boys' Soccer team defeated the St. Johns Johnnies at home on Monday by the score of 8-0. 

One minute into the contest, Rolf Fluge placed a perfect free kick from 25 yards into the top left corner of the Johnnie net.  At 18 minutes, Emil Boe took a corner kick and placed the ball into the small box.  Isak Ostevold collected it and pushed it to traffic to Fluge who scored his second goal of the game.  Four minutes later, Elias Skjelbred placed a nice pass up the left sideline to Abram Ness at the half line.  Ness carried the ball up the field, beating two defenders, and scored for the Comets.  At 27 minutes, Emil Boe placed a hooking corner kick into the small box which was mishandled by the Johnnie keeper and ended up in the back of the net.  34 minutes into the game, Rolf Fluge placed a perfect diagonal pass from the left sideline to the right side, behind the Johnnie defense.  Isak Ostevold, sprinting up the right side, collected the ball and scored.  Four minutes before the end of the half, Mateus Gjerme attacked the right goal line and needle threaded a near post goal off an assist from Ostevold, ending the half with the Comets up six goals.

Nine minutes into the second half, Isak Ostevold scord on a volley shot off a cross from Nathan Aanes.  Rolf Fluge scored his hat trick goal, and the final Comet goal of the game at 58 minutes, of an assist from Emil Boe with a nice behind the back, one touch, flick pass.

Senior goalie and captain, Cole Peterson, got his second shutout of the season, stopping six shots on goal.  The Comets launched 20 shots on the Johnnies' goal during the game.

"Our defense, Matthew Knutson, Max Anderson, David Axjon, Vebjorn Myntevik, and Elias Skelbred were solid for most of the game and did a great job building our offense from the backfield.  Soccer is a short season, these guys have played competitively with each other for only four weeks.  We still have several areas we can improve upon over the next two weeks."

The JV won their game 7-0.  Scoring for the Comets were Jonathan Wutka, David Sung, Zane Holmquist, Kian Stender (2) and Will Selvig.  The Johnnies also had an 'own goal'.

The Comets, now 6-3-1, take on the Crookston Pirates at 4:00pm Tuesday on their home field.