Fossil boys varsity soccer team defeats Rocky allowing them to take a step closer to play-offs

Emily Brey • October 19, 2015

Saturday, October 17. The varsity sabercats had a well played game against Rocky Mountain, winning 2-3, which allowed them to take a step closer in earning a spot in the All Conference Tournament.

Sophomore, Blair Durand, played a spectacular game putting away two of Fossil’s three goals. Durand also had the game winning goal helping the sabercats end the game with a win. His first goal consisted of a great split pass by Crey Gonzalez to Blair on the outside. Once Blair collected the ball at his feet he beat Rocky’s defender, Austin Heath, taking the ball towards the goal. Rocky’s keeper, John Brown, came off the goal line but Blair shot the ball before the keeper got to him.

Dominic Gibson, currently a junior at Fossil playing center mid for the team, kept the midfield organized and created many scoring opportunities. Gibson used skillful tactics to put away the second goal of the game. Gibson carried the ball from half field to the top of the 18”, beating Rocky’s defense. When he got to the 18” he took a powerful shot that hit the back of the net, unstoppable for Brown.

At half the score was tied 2-2, both teams playing with high intensity so they could pull out a win. Ten minutes into the second half, Blair Durand scored the third goal for Fossil putting them in the lead 3-2. Very similar to his first goal, Durand used his speed and composure to put the goal in the back of the net. Crey Gonzalez chipped the ball over the top of Rocky’s back line and Durand broke through the defense creating a one on one with Brown.

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Come out to support the team at their next game against their in-town rival, Fort Collins on Tuesday, October 20 at Fossil’s turf field at 6:00 pm.

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Emily Brey, Sports Editor

Emily Brey is a senior at Fossil Ridge High School who is in her third year on the Etched In Stone staff and is Co-Editor of the Sports BEAT. Emily plays varsity soccer for Fossil and also plays for Arsenal Colorado on the ‘00 Academy team. She is committed to play soccer at Colorado State University - Pueblo and plans to study business and law in college. After attending CSUP, she hopes to attend CU where she will go for her MBA.

Between taking on a full schedule and all of her extracurricular commitments, Emily is a very busy bee this year. Emily is serving as Vice President of FBLA here at Fossil, and is a member of Key Club and NTHS (National Technical Honor Society). She is an ambitious young lady whose reliability, organization, and work ethic has helped her achieve many goals in her time thus far at Fossil Ridge. She is a huge fan of Lana Del Rey and the bands, All Time Low, SWMRS, Waterparks, and The Wrecks. She enjoys spending time outside and organizing things, which relaxes her. When she isn’t covering a story or playing soccer, Emily enjoys being a homebody and watching movies.

The friendly, family-like environment that the journalism program at Fossil encompasses has been something she has valued since freshman year. She would love to be able to continue journalistic work after high school. Emily looks forward to leading the Journalism 1 writers, no matter if that’s in journalism or just life in general. Plus, she hopes to inspire the younger writers to report on other topics besides sports, just because that’s something that she wishes she would’ve done the past two years. Her main goal for the year in journalism is to get better with her coverage, especially with using multiple media platforms. Emily wants to try and expand from her comfort zone of sports writing, hoping to experience writing different journalistic topics.