Oct 17, 2024
PRINCETON JCT. — Scott Jordan became accustomed to setting up goals as a junior with the Allentown High varsity boys’ soccer team. Then, as a senior this season, he became the target. Other defenses may still be getting used to the Redbirds’ newest scorer, but, as West Windsor-Plainsboro High South found out Thursday, don’t think about it too long or Jordan will blow past you. Jordan scored twice yesterday to lead A’town to its third consecutive win with a 2-0 decision over the Pirates. The two tallies gave Jordan 15 goals on the year. Ten of those have come in October, a month in which Jordan has only been held scoreless in two of eight games. Heading into Colonial Valley Conference Tournament play Saturday, it is exactly the way first-year head coach Justin Schmid’s stingy defensive team had hoped to be playing all season. “We had a rough start, but now we’re starting to get hot,” Jordan said. “We’ve just got to be a little quicker. It’s a matter of us making dynamic runs.” Jordan showed exactly what he was talking about with 20:50 left in the first half against WW-P South. Cedric Mbachu, who, like Jordan, is a senior midfielder/forward, sent a 50-50 ball forward that Jordan and Pirates senior goalkeeper Adham Mohamed (six saves) charged in the box. With a burst, Jordan got to the ball a second sooner, slipped it under Mohamed and took it to the goal for the opening tally. That score came two minutes after Mohamed had tapped a Mbachu free kick over the crossbar, and seven minutes after WW-P South senior forward Alec Siegel headed a ball off the crossbar. Each team was that close to breaking the game open before Jordan. In fact, head coach Matt Coburn’s Pirates were having the better of the attack to that point. The same was true in the second half, but the home team just could not put a shot behind Redbirds senior goalkeeper John Paul Navroski (eight saves). “Going into our game with Ewing (Tuesday, a 5-1 win), we had fire and everyone wanted to score,” WW-P South’s Goldey-Beacom College-bound, 6-foot-3 senior striker Animesh Chauhan said. “It was not that we didn’t have chances today. Just something didn’t click.” The Pirates had a 10-8 edge in shots. The last five minutes of the game saw Siegel, Chauhan and senior Michael Tecun make strong runs with no resulting score. Instead, it was Jordan again who scored the second half’s only goal when sophomore midfielder Jayden Geleta was bumped down in the box 10 minutes into the second half. Jordan converted the ensuing penalty kick. “I’m happy that we have five captains who are locked in because we have 14 seniors who are going to graduate this year,” Chauhan said. “We’ll do or die together. Now it’s tournament time. We have to come in stronger.” As the eighth-seeded Pirates (4-8-1) prepare to host ninth-seeded Princeton Day School (4-9) at 1 p.m. Saturday, the 11th-seeded Redbirds (6-11) will already be a half hour in at sixth-seeded Lawrence (9-7-1). “We had a rough patch earlier this season, but we never backed down,” Jordan said, remembering a six-game losing streak from September into October. “Now we’re having fun again.” Jordan has been delighted to help set that up as well. Allentown (6-11)             1   1    —    2 WW-PSouth(4-8-1)         0   0    —    0 Goals: Jordan 2 (A); Assist: Mbachu (A). Shots: 8 (A), 10 (WWS); Saves: Navroski 8 (A), Mohamed 6 (WWS).
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