It’s a windy, gray day at Gay Field, but the team spirit is vivid on the field as the Clayton team huddles up and shouts “Go hounds †before running onto the field.
Despite the vivacity of the Clayton team, the Affton and Clayton teams tied 0-0 Oct. 6.
The game started with a pass back by the Clayton team. Clayton took the ball up the field onto the side with Afton’s goal. Freshman Sebastian Juhl made the first two corner kicks of the game, which both were misses.
The ball mainly stayed on Affton’s defensive side for the first half, although there were two attempts on Clayton’s goal. The goalie, Jonathon Matheny, saved the ball at 9 minutes into play and at 17 minutes into play. During the entire first half nobody scored, although the ball was kicked out of bounds a lot.
Freshman Mitchell Lazerus, midfielder, believed the Affton team was beatable.
“I think we need to work on our aim and aggressiveness. Although they weren’t a bad team, we should’ve beat them,†Lazerus said.
During the second half of the game Clayton’s offense was boosted by the addition of Juhl on the offensive line. During the second half, Juhl was on the left side of the goal and crossed to the middle, and another player passed it back when he tapped it into the goal. However this goal was not legitimate because it was off-sides.
Overall Clayton dominated the game, despite the tied score.
“I think that it was an overall pretty good game,†Lazerus said. “We’ve seen better days, but I think overall this season has been really awesome all around.â€