Bluewater Thunder U11 boys soccer team faced off against the Sarnia Fury U11 boys team at Dante Club and the two teams did not disappoint the large amount of fans who came out.  It was a seesaw battle from start to finish and the final score was 2-2.

Both teams started slowly as they were feeling each other out, with very few chances early.  The Fury got on the board first when Cameron Primeau buried a hard shot from outside the 18 yard box to give them the 1-0 lead.  The Thunder started pressing and were rewarded when Matthew Paquette scored on a low shot to the bottom corner, after having received a great pass from Chris Dedecker.  Both teams had some good scoring chances before the end of the half, but were unable to bury their chances and the half-time score was 1-1.  The second half saw both teams get numerous chances but were turned away by both goalies.  The Thunder took the 2-1 lead when Diego DaSilva scored from the top of the box on a low shot to the bottom corner.  The Fury started pressing for the tying goal and time and time again were thwarted by Stefan Mallozzi.  The Fury finally came through when the Fury's Cailean Schaller scored on a long shot, which just caught the inside of the post, to tie the game at 2-2.  The skies opened up and the last 15 minutes were played in a steady rain, but neither team could get the third goal and the game ended in a 2-2 tie,
Great effort from both teams.
 
On Saturday August 7th, the Bluewater Thunder U11 boys soccer team faced off against Woodstock, at Lambton College, in the third game of the afternoon and came away with a 5-0 victory.  The day was marked as "Bluewater Soccer Club Family Day" and saw the Bluewater Blaze U14's play Kitchener, followed by a Bluewater Alumni team facing off against Markham in an Ontario Cup Masters quarter final game and then closed out by the U11's against Woodstock.

The boys seemed to be pumped from watching the Masters Ontario Cup game and came out flying against Woodstock.  Bluewater's Chris Dedecker scored on a breakaway after receiving a great pass from Matthew Paquette to give Bluewater the 1-0 lead.  Bluewater totally dominated the first half but could not bury their chances, as Matthew Paquette put two balls inches wide of the post and Colin Yazdani also had a great chance to give the Thunder the 2-0 lead.  Late in the first half, Nicolas DiScanno buried a shot into the net after a Dedecker corner kick, to give the Thunder the 2-0 lead going into half-time.

The second half started the way the first half ended, with Bluewater dominating and it didn't take long for the Thunder to go up 3-0.  Michael Petrucci made a nice pass to Paquette who did not miss this time and buried his shot for the 3-0 lead.  Daniel Cservik and Patrick Spenner both had great chances but were denied.  Dedecker found Paquette, off a free kick, in the corner of the box and again Paquette buried his chance to give the Thunder a 4-0 lead.  Bluewater's Nicholas Iacobelli and Lukas Simic both made great passes and runs to set up that free kick.  The Thunder's Marcus Cossa scored an awesome head ball into the corner after receiving a lovely cross from Dedecker.  The defence, lead by Diego DaSilva, Zachary Matias, Bennett Vani and Burke Roszell, played solid defence all game and were instrumental in helping Stefan Mallozzi in getting his first shutout of the season.
 
Bluewater's next game is a Challenge Cup game this coming Saturday at Lambton College vs the London United team.