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Mendota plays strong defense, gets going with aggressive offense in shutout win over Peoria Christian · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Mendota plays strong defense, gets going with aggressive offense and shutout win
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  over Peoria Christian.
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  Written by Brad Martin. This article is being read by an automated
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  voice, brought to you by Everlet. Defense was the name of the
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  game early on in Mendota on Tuesday night as the Mendota boy
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  soccer team faced Pia Christian. But as the game wore on, Then
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  Trojans offense started to shine on Senior Knight as the came away
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  with a 7-0 victory over the Chargers. Through the first twenty six
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  minutes, neither team was getting many looks at the net, although the
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  Trojans came close a couple of times. The with twenty three thirty
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  five remaining in the first half, Emiliano Garcia threaded the needle with
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  a pass to the middle where Daniel Garcia was waiting to put
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  the Trojans ahead one zero. The score remained there until seven minutes
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  later, when Cesar Casas dribbled his way through the defense and found
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  the back of the net to give Mendota a two zero edge.
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  We've been working on getting some passes into they middle of the
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  field. Um Mendota coach Nick Meyer said. I thought when we started
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  to do that tonight, we started to get the offense going, um
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  and the defense was just solid all around, which we have been
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  working on as well. The center passing continued to work for the
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  Trojans, and although they were unable to score the remainder of the
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  half, they had two more great looks, but the Chargers, Peyton Miller,
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  kept the game close with some great saves. Miller made another great
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  save seven minutes into the second half, but with twenty seven fifty
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  six remaining in the game, Miller made an initial save, but Arian
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  Chavez was there for the rebound goal to make it three zero
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  Trojans. Five minutes after that, the aggressive Trojan offense pushed the lead
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  to 4-0 as Jamal Leslie got ahead of the defense for the
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  goal. While the Mendota defense continued to shut down the Chargers, Daniel
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  Garcia centered the ball and found Casas for his second goal of
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  the night as the lead grew to 5-0. Less than 30 seconds
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  later, Casas quickly got the ball over to Isaac Diaz for a
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  commanding 6-0 lead. I don't think Mendota did anything different in the
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  second half, Peoria Christian coach Cory Heinrich said. I
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  think our intensity dropped significantly. Mendota is a good strong team and
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  you just can't do that. With twenty seconds remaining, Cassus picked up
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  the hat trick as the game ended with a 7 0 Trojans
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  victory. Mendota, April 17, finishes the regular season Thursday at Rock
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  Island before opening the postseason on Tuesday. The Trojans, who are looking
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  for their third consecutive state berth, drew a number one seed and
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  will play in the Class 1A Byron Regional. Mendota plays at 4:30
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  p.m. Tuesday, against the winner between No. 9 Princeton and No. 7
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  Byron. I think we got a good draw for regionals next week,
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  Myers Myers said. We get the winner of Princeton and Byron, who
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  we have not played this year, and if we get past them,
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  possibly Oregon, who is a good team, and this time of year
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  you can't take anything for granted. I think in order to make
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  a run to state we have to stay confident. We have some
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  experience back from last year, but playing teams like this and Rockford
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  East will get us ready to make that run.