The Sarnia Fury u-14 premier team headed down the road to Cambridge on Saturday afternoon in search of their first victory of the season. This was a winnable game and the play was even.  This was the fist team we played that didn't have a distinct size advantage. 

Sarnia had the first scoring chance only to have a shot by Jacob Atkinson go just wide.  The 17 minute mark continues to be a bad luck time in games as Cambridge found the back of the net on an open shot from 10 yards.  The 2 teams played evenly for the rest of the half with no major scoring chances. 

Sarnia began the second half with the wind advantage but you wouldn't know it as Cambridge came out flying and pinned the Fury down in their own end for a good 10 minutes.   Sarnia keeper Colton Bond made 2 huge saves to keep the score 1-0.  Sarnia finally cleared the ball on a long punt by Bond and a couple bounces later the ball was on Blair Ried's foot in the clear and he made no mistake finding the back of the net to tie the game at 1-1.  Cambridge poured on the pressure again and Bond came up huge twice more in the net to thwart the opposition attack.  With Sarnia pouring on pressure late in the match,  and on a corner kick left the back end unattended.  Cambridge quickly cleared the ball to the Sarnia side to 2 wide open forwards who rushed in and potted the winner at the 82 minute mark.  Sarnia tried to even it but came up short 2-1. 

A great effort by the boys. They will get another shot this Friday at home to London Marconi 6:45 p.m at St Christopher.