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  Ethan Cortez, Romaville Boys soccer knockoff, unbeaten Oswego East. Written by Skylar
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  Cassellus. This article is being road.
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  By an automated voice, brought to you by Everlit. Facing an undefeated
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  Oswego East squad Thursday, Romoville knew it would be the underdog, especially
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  on the road. Spartans coach Nick Cirencioni even told his team as
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  much before it took the pitch. You guys are the underdogs, Sirencioni
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  said. Let's go battle and see what happens. What happened was an
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  unlikely victory fueled by an even unlikelier hero, a freshman playing out
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  of position. Ethan Cortez, normally a left midfielder playing on the right,
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  recorded a goal and an assist in only the eighth game of
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  his high school career to give Romoville a 2-1 win. After assisting
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  on
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  the Spartans tying goal late in the first half, Cortez buried a
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  shot at the first post in the forty fourth minutes to put
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  them on top two one. In the first half I saw that
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  we put our goal on the first post. Cortez said, so I
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  wanted to test it out again and it worked out. Romoval 5
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  1 20 Southwest Prairie Conference held firm for the final 35 minutes
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  to stay unbeaten in conference play. The Spartans finished with nine shots
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  while senior goalkeeper Saul Garcia made four saves in the net. Sirencioni
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  believes luck played a bit of a factor too. Got some breaks
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  to go our way, and sometimes you get lucky and you win
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  a game that maybe you weren't supposed to win, Cirencioni said. Oswego
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  East meanwhile suffered its first loss of the season after missing equalizing
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  opportunities late. The
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  Wolves had three shots in the second half. Keeper Carter Lucas made
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  six saves and allowed two goals. Sometimes when you have an undefeated
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  record, it's good to be humbled a bit. Oswego East coach Steve
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  Szymanski said. I wish it wasn't in a conference game, but I
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  think it's just more of a credit to Romoville, and we just
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  didn't have our best stuff today. The Wolves, 5-11-11 SPC, opened the
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  scoring in the 32nd minutes Senior Manuel Herrera Trejo made a perfect
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  pass to classmate Andre Elunge, who fired a shot from the left
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  side pass Garcia for the go-ahead goal. Really great shot, Shimansky said.
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  I mean, no goalie is going to save that one. I thought
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  it was just a nice build up and we just needed a
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  bit more of that. Romoville responded in the 38th minute when Cortez
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  passed to senior Luis Azarte who buried the equalizer that left the
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  match tied 1-1 at the break. About four minutes into the second
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  half, Cortez called his own number. He took a long through ball
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  from senior Gideon Ewanga, headed it across his defender, and deposited the
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  go-ahead score. As we go east, Jack McPhee had
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  a chance to tie the game back up with six minutes left.
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  The junior got past his defender to set up a one-on-one against
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  Garcia, but went just wide with his kick. We didn't test their
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  keeper, Szymansky said. I know he's a good keeper, but we didn't
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  really challenge him too much with great shots, but they did a
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  really good job of defending us and shutting us down. It's been
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  a fast breakout for Cortez, the only freshman on Romoville's varsity roster,
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  and Cirencione wants to keep his cards close, but he also knows
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  opponents will take notice of the young talent sooner rather than later.
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  He had a goal and an assist in the biggest game he's
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  played in, Sirencioni said. So being a freshman, he's done a great
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  job. I think he'll be a good player coming through the ranks
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  that they're going to have to watch out for.