By PAUL GOTHAM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Twin brothers Dylan and Parker Ange netted second-half goals minutes apart, and the No. 6-seed Greece Odyssey Leopards went on to defeat the No. 11-seed Dansville Mustangs, 3-0 in Section Five Class B Boys action, Wednesday afternoon.
Parker Ange converted a penalty kick in the 56th minute and nearly two minutes later Dylan Ange got behind the Dansville back line for a 3-0 advantage.
“Second half we possessed the ball, let the game come to us and played it safe in the back,” Greece Odyssey head coach Scott Mikulski said. “We did a really good job in the second half.”
Parker Ange’s tally started just past the mid-stripe where Mason Walker settled the ball and fed Ryan Ozzello who one-timed a diagonal pass through a pair of Dansville defenders. Parker Ange took the pass in stride along the right flank and got behind the last defender before being taken down in the box.
“That was a great little play,” Mikulski said. “He beat the defender with a stutter move. When you’re in the box take people on.”
Ange’s penalty kick gave the Leopards a 2-0 lead.
“He earned it,” Mikulski stated. “He’s one of our top guys. If we go to PKs in sectionals, he’s one of my top guys, so I felt comfortable having him do it.”
Dylan Ange put the game out of reach a minute and a half later.
“One-nothing did not feel good, even two-nothing,” Mikulski explained. “Once we hit three then I started emptying the bench a little bit.”
Odyssey’s leading scorer Josue Fontanez corralled a clearing attempt and fed Parker Ange with a through ball.
“We finally had a little space there,” Mikulski noted. “We were trying to get Josue untracked all game to try to get him in through the middle. It didn’t happen at all. They did a nice job of marking him today.
“They were packing the middle for the whole game. We were saying we can’t play it in the middle. We got to play it out wide and draw their defenders out and get the crosses into the box. When they went down two-to-nothing at the point they started to open it up a little bit.”
Ryan Ozzello gave Odyssey a 1-0 lead in the first half.
“In the first half we were just kinda all over the place. They were beating us to fifty-fifty balls. That was the thing. We’re a better team overall, but we didn’t see a lot of that in the first half. We were moving the ball, crossing it. There was a fifty-fifty ball, and they were beating us to the ball. Then we had four guys stuck in their box, and they countered on us.”
Vince Alongi made two saves for the clean sheet.
“There were a couple of crosses that could have been dangerous if he didn’t come out and own his box,” Mikulski said of his goalkeeper. “I thought he did a really nice job of doing that. He did a nice job of keeping everything calm back there today.”
Odyssey advances to play No. 3-seed Mynderse in the Class B quarter-finals.
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