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9.0 years ago @ 2:01AM

Rodriguez Hat Trick Leads Tigers

The article below was written by Nelson Morgan of Waynesville Athletic Gazette.

Game Date
Oct 21, 2014
Score
TIGERS: 3
OZARK HIGH: 1

Sitting up front by himself in a new offensive scheme, junior forward Caleb Rodriguez scored three times on breakaways to lead the Tiger soccer team to a 3-1 win Tuesday night at Ozark. 

Rodriguez first scored in the seventh minute off a through ball from Louis Tejada.  The game then settled into a back and forth affair with Ozark scoring the equalizer 18 minutes later.  Defender Brandon Hofmann then came up big twice in a minute-ten.  With Tiger goal keeper Jon Moore on the ground and the ball rolling behind him, Hofmann raced to clear it away from the goal line.  Moments later he cleared the ball off the back post following a corner kick. 

That enabled Rodriguez to put the Tigers ahead at halftime.  With 2:52 remaining Chase Holden passed a ball ahead.  Rodriguez controlled it on a high bounce and beat the last Ozark defender to touch it in.  He wasted no time making it 3-1 in the second half. Just 38 seconds in, he broke from the last defender, and as the Ozark keeper rushed out to meet him, calmly chipped the ball over his head and into the net. 

The hosts then double-teamed Rodriguez the rest of the game.  Ozark had two chances to score after that.  Once it missed a wide open shot wide and once, on a crowded richochet shot, the ball spurted straight up and Moore leaped to secure it.  Moore finished with six saves in the game.

The Tigers have been seeded number one in the Class 4 District 9 Tournament next week at Parkview.  WHS will open play at five o'clock Tuesday against the Vikings.  Springfield Central and Lebanon will play later that night with the winners in the championship game October 30.


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