Friday, October 6, 2017
The Times Argus Fall Sports Guide
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Spaulding Boys Soccer
2 Taylor D’Agostino
3 Camden Child
4 Logan Kennedy
5 Josh Morrill
6 Seth Poirier
7 Dylan Estivill
8 Jeb Welch
9 Dylan D’Agostino
10 Jake Couture
11 Jerrod Emmons
12 Isaiah Browman
13 Grant Otis
14 Jordan Fecher
15 Jesse King
16 Parker Spaulding
17 Dan Durgin
18 Aidan Gilwee
20 Logan Taylor
Coach Rob Moran
Assistant Coaches Jesse Burns, John Hardy,
Saudin Bahonjic
Harwood Boys Soccer
1 Noah Williams
2 Simon Strassberg
3 Will Lapointe
4 Liam Hall
5 Ely Kalkstein
7 Henry Drake
8 Markus Baird
9 Asa Moskowitz
10 Connor Woolley
12 Jesse McDougall
13 Mason Lemery
14 Wyatt Adams
15 Eriks Ziedins
16 Ryan Semprebon
17 Jacob O’Brien
18 Jacob Skedzuhn
19 Duncan Weinman
20 Owen Labombard
21 Hunter Wimble
22 Hayden Adams
23 Manuel Mena
24 Mauritz Hammond
GK Oliver Hammond
GK Max Hill
Coach Don Haddox
Assistant Coach Joe Yalicki
Boys soccer: A local championship?
By JAMES BIGGAM
STAFF WRITER
BARRE — Rob Moran has coached
at Spaulding for 14 years and knows
the Granite City will not magically
become Soccer Central overnight.
He also knows his boys are scrappers.
Over in Duxbury, Don Haddox has
helped shape Harwood into a genu-
ine soccer school. This year he could
take it to the next level with a 3-6-1
formation.
U-32’s Steve Towne and Montpe-
lier’s Bill Basa are in the midst of
massive rebuilding years but still have
teams that are deceptively strong.
The Raiders won their fifth Division
II championship two years ago, while
the Solons are staring at a 21-year title
drought. And then there’s Northfield-
Williamstown, a newly united coop-
erative program searching for respect
in Division II.
None of Washington County’s
elite teams have reached the level
of 17-time champ CVU, but the gap
keeps shrinking every fall. And even
though most of last year’s stars are off
to college, Central Vermont’s return-
ing talent is legitimate.
SPAULDING
Crimson Tide soccer is embracing
change.
Veteran coach Rob Moran has a lot
of fresh faces and a completely new
outlook entering the school’s first year
in the Lake Division. Yes, his team has
some rebuilding to do. But the Tide
no longer play eight Metro Division
powers in a one-month span. And the
confidence from beating a few Lake
opponents could be contagious.
“The fact that we’re not facing CVU
and Essex and South Burlington is a
plus for us,” Moran said. “It got easy
for our guys to think, ‘Oh, we’re going
to play CVU. There’s no way we can
win this game.’ It was hard to get up
for a game. And going to face Milton
will be tough this year, but the boys
are excited and they think they can
win. I think it’s a different attitude.”
Moran enters his 14th season
coaching Spaulding and has mod-
est expectations, saying that a home
playoff match is attainable. There are
zero club players on his roster but he
can always count on athletes with solid
work rates and sharp instincts.
Spaulding has not recorded a win-
ning season since 2009 and is 0-2 in
semifinal appearances. But previous
Capital and Metro schedules molded
the Tide into a perpetual dark horse
for playoffs. Spaulding almost upset
Middlebury as the No. 16 seed in 2012
and took Hartford to overtime the fol-
lowing year as a No. 14. Two years ago
Spaulding was seeded No. 16 again
and tested CVU in a 1-0 playdown loss.
The Tide’s Lake schedule is no walk