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Boys soccer bounces back with victory over Greater Lowell

By Emily Brennan

Mystic Valley boys’ soccer bounced back with a 3-1 victory over Greater Lowell on Tuesday evening at the Mystic Valley Sports Complex. MV improves to 2-4 overall while Greater Lowell drops to 5-3-1.

The Eagles had a lot of momentum in the first five minutes but were held without a shot until an off-target attempt in the 20th minute. Wesley Rosell finally broke the deadlock in the 35th minute, opening the scoring for the Eagles and giving them a well-deserved 1-0 lead. The MV defense was able to hold strong, and they’d hold that advantage heading into the second half.

Up a goal, the Eagles didn’t take long to quickly double their lead when Jack Mangone found a wide-open Yafet Dawit on the left. Dawit struck a shot toward the left side of the goal that bounced off the post. Dawit was tackled in the box in an attempt to knock the rebound in. Mystic Valley garnered a penalty kick following the GL foul. Senior Captain Sebastian Saad stepped up to take the penalty, sending a shot into the top corner of the net.

The Gryphons looked to break the game open. Racing past the Mystic Valley defense, a midfielder slotted a pass to his teammate, who buried the feed into the back of the net. GL then fired off two more shots, but Cam Martins and the Mystic Valley defense was able to hold them off.

Mystic Valley immediately returned the favor with back-to-back chances on net that were saved. Seven minutes later, Danyel Vicente took a feed from Wesley Rosell and deposited the ball into the back of the net as he lifted MV to a 3-1 win.