Offense keeps momentum rolling for City College Rams

 

 

By Lucas Almeida
The Guardsman

Team chemistry was the focal point for City College as they improved their record to 4-2 on the young season, defeating Cosumnes River College, 5-0, on Sept. 13.

The win gives the Rams back-to-back victories and a total of 10 goals in their last two games.

Head coach Adam Lucarelli is pleased about his team’s play on the field.

“I think today we played a little bit better than against College of Marin [in our last game],” Lucarelli said. “Our team’s chemistry is getting better.”

In the first half, City College aggressively attacked their opponent, having many opportunities to open the score.

The Rams had a clear chance to take the lead on a shot by sophomore forward Jaime Barragan in the 18th minute, but was stopped by Cosumnes River’s goalkeeper, Leo Luna.

While pressuring the ball until the 22nd minute, Lucarelli made a sub, putting in freshman Bryant Isaguirre to give the team more speed to explore their counter-attack with faster sprints.

The second half continued with the same aggression displayed by the Rams using more counter-attack sprints.

In the 52nd minute the offense woke up when freshman midfielder Jesse Cisneros passed the ball to fellow freshman Pedro Sarabia volleying the ball with one touch hitting the net to score the Rams’ first goal.

After a quick goal by Juan Palacio three minutes later, Sarabia found the net once again scoring his second of the game to put the Rams up, 3-0.

Two more goals were scored by Enmanuell Caldera and Cameron Leaver late in the second half and their coach said the adjustments made by putting some of the new freshmen players in was crucial to the victory.

“We didn’t play much different from first half to the second half. The only difference is that the goal opportunities we had in the first half didn’t go in and in the second half we had the same chances but the balls were going in,” Lucarelli said. “Some of the freshmen helped us a lot like Sarabia, who made a big difference.”

With two assists in the game, freshman midfielder Jesse Cineros was also one of the key players to the Rams’ win.

“Every game we’re just building more and more chemistry” Cineros said. “We are just getting better and we’re just going to start beating our opponents more and more as the season goes.”

The Rams will face Gavilan College in their next home game on Sept. 23. Kickoff will be at 4 p.m.