Short-handed Hounds get win over Washington

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BY JOHN BOHNENKAMP
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FORT MADISON - Fort Madison’s boys soccer team will get a break on Tuesday.
The Bloodhounds deserve one.
Monday’s 2-1 win over Washington was the Bloodhounds’ sixth match in eight days. And with nagging injuries piling up, coach Kevin Wellman told the team that all Tuesday’s practice would be was a breakdown of video from the last four matches.
“The problem with a lot of these injuries, the shin splints and the slightly pulled muscles, is the only way to fix it is to do nothing,” Wellman said. “Sit on the couch and do nothing. But we can’t do that. We have to practice, get more in shape, stay conditioned.”
The Bloodhounds had only 15 players available for Monday’s match, which meant they had three position players and a backup goalkeeper to use as substitutes.
“We scraped it through today with not a lot of options available,”Wellman said.
The Bloodhounds (3-3 overall, 2-0 Southeast Conference) fought off early charges by the Demons (2-1, 1-1), who came into the match ranked 16th in Class 2A. Most of the early portion of the game was spent around the Fort Madison goal, but the Bloodhounds kept Washington off the scoreboard.
“I thought we started the game a little slow,” Wellman said. “Washington got off the bus ready to go. So we had a slow start, which has been a problem for us so far. But after that first 10-12 minutes we started getting into a rhythm.”
Fort Madison’s first goal came from Mitchell Pothitakis with 8:18 left in the first half. The Bloodhounds pushed the lead to 2-0 with a goal from Leif Boeding with 4:56 left in the second half, then Washington made the match a little more tense on Angel Mata’s sliding goal with 1:38 to play.
The Bloodhounds survived to stay on top of the conference they won last season.
“We had a couple of freshmen playing,” Wellman said. “They did OK. They did OK. We may absolutely need them. Knock on wood, anything can happen. We just have to be ready.”

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