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drrisn* wno nas a 48-12 record in five-and-halfJohnson's last-minute goal saves LHS winBIC GALLAGHERStaff writer- Keith Johnson score d two goals, including the game winner with 1:25 to go, to give' ,LuAmbrertofn Senior High a 3-2 Southeastern 4-A Conference victory over visiting‘^Cr^St J?onday at Pirate Stadium.The Patriots had erased a 2-0 deficit in a ■span of four minutes in the second half, but Johnson scored to avert a third consecutiveovertime match for the PiratesLumberton was coming off a scoreless tie?n:co{e*ence Laney, Saturday,af, t,e in lts conference opener at Lee Wednesday, •Johnson, a junior midfielder, has tallied five of the last seven goal: for Lumberton including three in the tie with Lee.Keith has been a surprise, said Pirate coach Randie Mantovani. “I expected himto pass a lot and didn t get a lot of goals, but he has gotten five goals in the tast two games.The other teams are double-teaming and triple-teaming Scott Gardner, so Keith has picked up the scoring. When teams realize they have to mark Keith too, then Scott will break loose and start scoring some goals.” Lumberton, 6-4-2 overall and 1-0-1 in the conference, jumped out to a 1-0 lead on B.J. Sweeney’s goal set the defensive play of Scott Williams.Williams twice dove to the ground to prevent a Patriot ballhandler from advancingthe ball upfield, then gathered in the loose pah and fed Sweeney a perfect crossing passto the right side.Sweeney deftly re directed the ball past Pmecrest goalie Cory Dunn, who had come out of the net to cut down the angle, at the II: 15 mark into the opening half.Two minutes later, Johnson had a breakaway goal disallowed because of an offsides call on the Pirates.But with 14:02 remaining in the first half, Johnson connected on a shot into the Pin-crest goal after taking a pass from Sweeny in the right corner to pul Lumberton up 2*0.Before ihe half ended, Sweenev andGardner limped off the field with leg iniu-nes. Both returned in the second half but sidelines evemual,y forced back to thehaKUmbert0n outsbot Pirlecrest 12-7 in theAfter being outplayed in the firs half, thewftnr a3™ 1 j,!fe during the ^cond half with Gardner and Sweeney on the bench.‘At halftime, we felt a little more en-game1 p-get US right back in theEX; Avl h CreSt coach RamseyBlanks. We began to get some things 0Setter and closed the gap in play.”We were tired and beat up,” said ManSt iaSt ^ W3S 3 liU!c r0Ugh oni-1c Planning to bring Gardner and weenev back. 1 thought my subs could hold these guys down. 1 started subbing prettyheavily to give the starters some rest before Wednesday night. We just couldn’t hold them. That’s sort of my mistake.”Pinecrest struck for two Quick scores off rebounds after Pirate goalie Mike Williamson had made saves on the initial shots.Jimmy Kitson tallied the first for Pinecrest with 16:26 left, followed by Chris Windish’s goal at the 12:26 mark.Pinecrest suddenly gained momentum but had a go-ahead score negated a minute later because of an offsides penalty.I was surprised how we came back on them,” said Blanks, “We looked kind of down when we fell behind by two. We got really excited when we scored our first goal and took it back to them. When we didn’t get that third goal, it kind of took the wind out ofoursails.”Michael Monday set up the game winner by feeding Johnson, who drilled a shot into the top right corner from 25 yards away.Lumberton outshot Pinecrest on goal, 18-9, while Pinecrest recorded 11 saves toLumberton’s nine.Pinecrest falls to 2-6 overall and 0-3 in theconference.I thought the difference was our players had more field experience,” said Mantovani. I also thought we have faced better competition than they have and that showed throughout the game.”Lumberton travels to Richmond Wednesday to meet the Raiders in a Southeastern 4-A Conference matchup.
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Lumberton, North Carolina, US
Tue, Sep 27, 1988
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