Speaker 1: Welcome to after the Whistle here in the SDH Network.
Speaker 1: I look back at Friday night football on the Network,
Speaker 1: brought to us by our friends at Kaiser Permanente in
Speaker 1: Dalton for the Catamounts taking on Johnson Gainesville in a
Speaker 1: big non region matchup out of the blocks for both
Speaker 1: of these teams. What we'll have coming up here across
Speaker 1: after the whistle, we will get you your highlights, we'll
Speaker 1: get you your player of the game, and we'll get
Speaker 1: some postgame sound from both head coaches and from Hermont
Speaker 1: Santana of the Dalton Catamounts. So let's not waste any
Speaker 1: time and let you know what happened in front of
Speaker 1: a chili condition, pretty big crowd for a Friday night,
Speaker 1: very very cool to be up there in Dalton too,
Speaker 1: broadcast Johnson Gainesville and the Catamounts for you on the network.
Speaker 1: So here are your highlights. Jason on the call, and
Speaker 1: we tell you who the player of the game is,
Speaker 1: courtesy of our friends at Oglethorpe University.
Speaker 2: Three goals by the.
Speaker 1: Time we were done, and a crazy ending.
Speaker 3: Here you go, Gonzalez to take with the right foot,
Speaker 3: both hands in the air, delivered.
Speaker 2: A couple of differflections and.
Speaker 3: Popcorm goal goal goal Dalton and Luis Bavela got magnets
Speaker 3: in his boots. He's always finding that rebound. It falls
Speaker 3: to him at the top of the six and he's
Speaker 3: able to pop.
Speaker 2: It past via Thro one nil.
Speaker 3: Catamounts with twenty one oh six to play into the
Speaker 3: first half. A free kick. You don't want to get
Speaker 3: up on this pitch. Gonzalez puts it into a dangerous spot.
Speaker 3: The clearing headed attempt didn't get away and it fell
Speaker 3: to Favela. Doesn't try to blast it, just pops it
Speaker 3: past via Toro, one nil, Dalton. Favella's third goal of
Speaker 3: the week. Lopez not gonna take this one. I thought
Speaker 3: this would be in his wheelhouse. It's gonna be Gonzalez
Speaker 3: to take it instead. Gonzalez with the right foot. Watch
Speaker 3: out for Lopez as a target here and the ball
Speaker 3: always seems to find Favella inside the eighteen as well.
Speaker 3: Gonzalez right under the crossboard Glassovo goal goal show. Gonzales
Speaker 3: skimmed off the underside of the crossbar over via Toro's head.
Speaker 3: No way that should be attempted, and gounze Zalez does
Speaker 3: it anyway.
Speaker 2: Golasso for Gonzalez to nil. Dalton.
Speaker 3: Everyone lining up trying to get on the end of that.
Speaker 3: Gonzalez says, nah I got other ideas. Puts it off
Speaker 3: the underside of the crossbar. No chance for via Toro.
Speaker 3: Perfectly hit two nil catamount Ruiz to Gonzalez. Gonzalez slips
Speaker 3: past one, Alex Gonzalez, slip past Joe Gonzalez over to
Speaker 3: the left side Acosta, he'll come forward, Halil Chavez once
Speaker 3: you get on the right foot, slips it back to
Speaker 3: Acosta in the eighteen Jordia Costao gol gold Johnson and
Speaker 3: we've got a game here in Dalton to to one.
Speaker 2: Dalton with the lead. A little bit of pushing and
Speaker 2: shoving after the goal, the usual.
Speaker 3: Trying to get to the ball. Goalkeeper doesn't want to
Speaker 3: let the team that scored on him get the ball.
Speaker 3: Johnson find the goal to cut the lead in half.
Speaker 3: Jordi Acosta making the run out of the back to
Speaker 3: tie it up. That goal breaks a lot of stretches
Speaker 3: of play for both teams. Dalton had been on a
Speaker 3: run where they hadn't conceded this year.
Speaker 2: They have now.
Speaker 3: Johnson had been on a run where they hadn't scored
Speaker 3: in a game and a half. They have now Choppies
Speaker 3: gar see off the crossbar, off the crossbar and off
Speaker 3: of Via Toro corner on the far side for Dalton.
Speaker 3: Choppies almost put the game away. Lopez will try to
Speaker 3: put it away by taking his time to bring this
Speaker 3: corner back into play.
Speaker 2: One five to go A Lopez doesn't take his time.
Speaker 3: He goes quick. Via Toro has to punch it away
Speaker 3: inside the six. It gets all the way through and
Speaker 3: wide goal kick. Nobody could find that deflection. David Limas
Speaker 3: will check back in for Johnson. Time running short for
Speaker 3: the Nights. Less than ninety seconds to go. Contora's gonna
Speaker 3: play it short to Doran into the middle, to Alex
Speaker 3: Gonzalez top of his own arc up the left side,
Speaker 3: Halil Chavez back to Contra gotta get into the attacking
Speaker 3: half Via Toro under pressure, He'll play it long down
Speaker 3: the middle. Limas gets a touch to it, trueO can't
Speaker 3: find it. It's knocked away by armand Santana. Choppies turns
Speaker 3: into the middle, intercepted. Limas trying to find it for Johnson,
Speaker 3: trying to run through. A defender runs through with the
Speaker 3: arms swinging caught Plaza. Don't think he was swinging the
Speaker 3: arm at Plaza. I think he was trying to get position.
Speaker 3: Coaco continue to ride. At forty two seconds, Lopez up
Speaker 3: the right side, Gongora, Gongora poked away.
Speaker 2: I by green model though, throw Dalton.
Speaker 3: They've got the lead, they've got the clock on their side,
Speaker 3: and they've got thirty seconds to kill. Lopez throws it in,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't get over the touch line. That's gonna
Speaker 3: be a throw for Johnson. They gotta get forward fast.
Speaker 3: Eighteen seconds. Lopez will succeed in getting that one to
Speaker 3: east Ridge and that might just do it. The ball
Speaker 3: kids not paying any attention, well trained here in Dalton,
Speaker 3: thrown in quickly, Johnson trying to find it. Five seconds
Speaker 3: on the Clocket's out for another throw and that.
Speaker 2: Will do it.
Speaker 3: Here at Harmon Field, a classic Dalton with a two
Speaker 3: to one win for the second year in a row
Speaker 3: over the Johnson Knights. The goal from Joe Gonzalez the
Speaker 3: free kick, which was an amazing hit that ends up
Speaker 3: being the match winner. Luis Favella opened the scoring. Jordia
Speaker 3: Acosta cut the lead in half and made it very
Speaker 3: very interesting down the stretch and after all of the
Speaker 3: heated moments in that both teams slapping hands, giving each
Speaker 3: other high fives, dapping each other up. Game played in
Speaker 3: the absolute right spirit here at Harmon Field tonight. Intense,
Speaker 3: high level, really well played from both of these teams.
Speaker 3: But Dalton the better team on the night and they
Speaker 3: will take the dub, their third of the season. Johnson
Speaker 3: falls to one and two. Gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 3: We'll come back to put a bow on the show
Speaker 3: right after this. Dalton two one winners over Johnson tonight
Speaker 3: at Harmon Field. Welcome back to Harmon Field here in Dalton.
Speaker 3: The Catamounts two to one winners tonight over the Johnson Knights.
Speaker 3: A great second half as Johnson got back into it,
Speaker 3: maybe playing their best soccer of the season so far,
Speaker 3: but they couldn't find the second Dalton first goal conceded
Speaker 3: of the year. They do a great job in seeing
Speaker 3: everything out to get their third win of the year
Speaker 3: to one tonight over perennial state title contenders Johnson. Tonight's
Speaker 3: Player the Game Award brought to you by Oglethorpe University,
Speaker 3: Atlanta's premier undergraduate learning experience and Soccer Powerhouse could go
Speaker 3: a few different directions with this, but Joe Gonzalez, the
Speaker 3: central midfielder for Dalton, he had the match winner. He
Speaker 3: will get the Player of the Game award, presented by
Speaker 3: Oglethorpe University. An amazing free kick from Gonzalez kissed off
Speaker 3: the underside of the bar and in also really good
Speaker 3: play throughout in the midfield. Had that huge tackle late
Speaker 3: on Junior Castillo, a brilliant play. Ended up getting a
Speaker 3: yellow card after the after extracurricular side of it. But
Speaker 3: a great tackle from Gonzalez, a great goal from Joe Gonzalez,
Speaker 3: and he is your player of the game here in
Speaker 3: Dalton Tonight, presented by Oglethorpe University.
Speaker 1: Now let's catch up with some folks as we get
Speaker 1: you wrapped up with what happened in Dalton. First off,
Speaker 1: let's find out what is in the mind after the
Speaker 1: match was over. Frank Zamore, the head coach of the
Speaker 1: Knights of Johnson, gains hard fought like.
Speaker 2: It always is.
Speaker 4: What do you think?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, I mean it's always it's always a battle,
Speaker 5: you know. I think we came out a little flat
Speaker 5: first half. Dalton came out with a lot of energy
Speaker 5: intensity first half, but I think we settled in well
Speaker 5: second half. I think we possessed a little bit more
Speaker 5: than they did and created a couple of chances. It's
Speaker 5: always fine, man. So it's a good battle, good good
Speaker 5: game to get us ready for region that's coming up.
Speaker 5: You know, it's good, good way to test both teams.
Speaker 4: And it looked like the Acosta move was what kind
Speaker 4: of triggered things offensively there in the second forty minutes.
Speaker 5: You know, we just had a little bit more freedom
Speaker 5: to push up. You know, he was able to get
Speaker 5: free and get that goal. But we just settled in
Speaker 5: a little bit better second half. We started moving the
Speaker 5: ball a little bit better, possessing playing our style. You know,
Speaker 5: it's just hard for us to set all in that
Speaker 5: first half, but once we were able to move the
Speaker 5: ball around, you know, we created those opportunities there.
Speaker 1: With all of the graduation that you had last year,
Speaker 1: six seniors this year, what are your thoughts so far
Speaker 1: three matches in about how everybody's coming together?
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I mean I think it's so early in
Speaker 5: the season. You know, I think we've played some good teams.
Speaker 5: North scythe a solid team. Definitely don't you know. These
Speaker 5: are the type of games we want to We want
Speaker 5: to have early in the season to get tested, to
Speaker 5: get exposed, see what these guys are made out of,
Speaker 5: and see what we need to get better and improve on,
Speaker 5: so you know, be able to I was solid the
Speaker 5: rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Now of the flip side of things in Dalton as
Speaker 1: we'd run across the field from one end to the other,
Speaker 1: catching up with senior captain Hermont Santana and head coach
Speaker 1: Matt Cheap.
Speaker 4: Eighty minutes and was survived and challenging conditions. What'd you think?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought the second half was not our game.
Speaker 6: We let them dictate what was going on and they
Speaker 6: spread us out. We weren't very compact and they stretched
Speaker 6: us out and they made some really good runs. They're
Speaker 6: really technical on the ball, and they turned it and
Speaker 6: dribbled at us and took us on and the spots
Speaker 6: beat us. So we got to be able to improve
Speaker 6: on that. But the guy who's hung tough and managed
Speaker 6: to keep him out of the net twice and hung
Speaker 6: on to win. So we're very pleased with that. And
Speaker 6: this is the kind of game that's you know, it's
Speaker 6: a non region game and if we look at it honestly,
Speaker 6: stay positive about it, we can learn something from this.
Speaker 6: So that's our goal.
Speaker 4: I was going to say, this is what you do
Speaker 4: this time of year. You want to challenge yourself, go
Speaker 4: best on best, find non region opponents that you know
Speaker 4: will have that same kind of quality come season three
Speaker 4: in the postseason.
Speaker 6: You got that tonight, Yeah, we did, absolutely. That's why
Speaker 6: we played Johnson and like McIntosh and you know, we're
Speaker 6: playing some of the top teams in the state and
Speaker 6: we really get a good test of ourselves at this
Speaker 6: early point of the season. So like those two games
Speaker 6: pretty tough. I don't know that we'll see that kind
Speaker 6: of thing until the playoffs maybe are You know, Southeast
Speaker 6: is always tough and really hyped up. But that was
Speaker 6: some really quality soccer.
Speaker 4: So I was I was going to say, I mean,
Speaker 4: you end up with quick turn you go to McIntosh,
Speaker 4: you come down here, and you come back. But that's
Speaker 4: kind of what the postseason does, where you're going to
Speaker 4: have to do quick turns three and four days and
Speaker 4: be ready for best on best on best on dust.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely got to turn around really quick and be
Speaker 6: ready to play, especially with no practice because we came
Speaker 6: back from McIntosh, it was a snow day here. We
Speaker 6: had snow so we couldn't practice. And then yesterday the
Speaker 6: conditions were just awful. We couldn't get outside and practice,
Speaker 6: so we hadn't you know, gotten on the field to
Speaker 6: work on some of the stuff we needed to work
Speaker 6: on from the Macintosh game. So you know, we're out
Speaker 6: there learning on the field, and we got a lot
Speaker 6: of new players too. We're trying to figure out who
Speaker 6: who does what, who can do what in different situations.
Speaker 6: We got a lot of people. We just got to
Speaker 6: figure out the role for everybody in different spots.
Speaker 4: When you have snow days and weather challenges early part
Speaker 4: of the season, how do you work around that to
Speaker 4: try to keep learning.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, we post video online from from the
Speaker 6: last game. Letn' watch it. But you know, when the
Speaker 6: superintendent says, don't put kids on the road, you don't
Speaker 6: put kids on the road, No questions asked, and you
Speaker 6: just enjoy the day off, you know. And then and
Speaker 6: then the next day we had it. You know a
Speaker 6: little indoor facility. It's small, but we're able to get
Speaker 6: in there and do some work, do what you can,
Speaker 6: try to build some team CODI camaraderie and stay in
Speaker 6: shape and you know, do whatever you can, but not
Speaker 6: as good as we could have done on the field.
Speaker 4: There's a tough one out there on that What do
Speaker 4: you think?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was a tough game. John's a good opponent. Uh,
Speaker 7: glad we were able to come out with a win.
Speaker 7: My team, I think we did really good. We worked
Speaker 7: really hard for it and yeah, just gonna to be
Speaker 7: where would have come out with the win.
Speaker 4: We got the first two goals on the board at
Speaker 4: the tube lead at the half. What was the talk
Speaker 4: about in here at half time?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was it was good getting up, but we
Speaker 7: know two it's not a good lead to have because
Speaker 7: they could come back at any moment. So it was
Speaker 7: just it was just work our tails off to try
Speaker 7: to not let them get back in the game.
Speaker 4: Second half, they got the goal on the board, and
Speaker 4: then the last ten minutes was just absolutely crazy out there.
Speaker 4: What was it like out there those last ten.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was insane. It was really tiring. That goal
Speaker 7: definitely gave him a lot of momentum. We were just
Speaker 7: trying to defend for our lives, trying to hold on
Speaker 7: and I think we did a pretty good job holding
Speaker 7: him off.
Speaker 4: Where do you think you are after the first three
Speaker 4: matches with all of these faces trying to get figured out?
Speaker 7: I think we're still trying to figure out everybody where
Speaker 7: everybody should be on the field. But we've been working
Speaker 7: on it, and we've been working hard in practices and
Speaker 7: I think the more the game's come, the better it's
Speaker 7: going to be. And we're just going to keep trying hard.
Speaker 7: And where are you on it?
Speaker 1: So the win for Dalton gets them to three and oh,
Speaker 1: they've only given up one goal so far this season.
Speaker 1: In those three wins, they've scored eleven along the way.
Speaker 1: First up with a six nil win over Calhoun back
Speaker 1: on Valentine's Day, Then the match in McIntosh that you
Speaker 1: heard here on the network as well early in the week.
Speaker 1: Then the win over Johnson Gainesville. So it's six nail
Speaker 1: to Calhoun, three nil at McIntosh, and then back home
Speaker 1: it was a two to one win over Johnson. Now
Speaker 1: they get a handful of days off. Next up for
Speaker 1: them as a matchup on the twenty seventh against Pace Academy.
Speaker 1: Then the quick turn start Reagon play in Dalton against
Speaker 1: Hiram on the twenty eighth, and then the matchup that
Speaker 1: we're also keeping an eye on in the SDH network
Speaker 1: ive Stavia Hills comes over from Alabama to play in
Speaker 1: Dalton on March the fourth. That'll be a six o'clock
Speaker 1: start over there with those two powerhouses going at it here.
Speaker 1: Early in twenty twenty five, Johnson gains drops to one
Speaker 1: and two on the year, and once again with the
Speaker 1: discussions that we had on the on the air, a
Speaker 1: team that while you lose a lot of starters, you
Speaker 1: lose a lot of firepower. You do have six seniors,
Speaker 1: but everyone's still trying to get acclimated to one another
Speaker 1: right now. One and two this season for Johnson Gainsell
Speaker 1: at West Hall of three nil win, then a loss
Speaker 1: at North forsythe two nil, then the loss to Dalton
Speaker 1: two one. Next up for Johnson Gainsell's a matchup against
Speaker 1: Cherokee Bluff on the twenty fifth, and then on the
Speaker 1: twenty eighth they drift into region play with a game
Speaker 1: at Pickens, and then on the fourth of March it
Speaker 1: is a matchup at home against White County. Thanks to
Speaker 1: everybody who made the broadcast possible. Thanks to all of
Speaker 1: you who were listening to the broadcast. Next up for
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Speaker 1: It's going to be Monday, So Monday night we will
Speaker 1: be in Lincolnton for an East Georgia Rivalry boys and
Speaker 1: Girls games five thirty and seven thirty Thompson visiting Lincoln County.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be fun to be in Lincolnton for
Speaker 1: the first time as we catch up with what will
Speaker 1: Homskis and Lincoln County have been doing to build that
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Speaker 1: Fun environment last night, great matchup and a cold environment.
Speaker 1: But that's what this is all about, these kind of
Speaker 1: matchups early on in the season here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: That's after the whistle for Dalton and Johnson Gainesville. For Jason,
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