Eating their third straight match at home on Tuesday, the Chanute Blue Comets fell to Eudora, 4-1, in boys soccer action.
“We played really well,” Chanute head coach Adam Wilcox said. “Eudora is really good. They’re better than us. I think we played really well to get it to 4-1. Eudora was a little off and we had some say in that. Their record will look bad because they play extremely hard teams.”
Eudora drew first blood nine minutes into the match with a strike from 30 yards out. Seven minutes later, a penalty kick delivered the halftime score of 2-nil.
Eudora scored twice more in the first 10 minutes of the second half to put the match out of reach from the Blue Comets.
“I thought we played as well as we could,” Wilcox said. “We could’ve finished a penalty kick or a crash on the goal. But Eudora subbed pretty liberally. I think if we would’ve put more pressure on them … if it was closer, they run their true starters longer. But my boys played as well as they have. That was one of the best teams we’ve played.”
Chanute struggled to gain and maintain possession of the ball through the match’s first 60 minutes.
“They’re good and they can run off the ball,” Wilcox said. “They know where each other are and pick up balls we couldn’t defend well. They’re tactically really strong. They still struggled to get that final shot. Our keeper made some good saves. Eudora is athletic and ran fast. They do everything well.”
The Blue Comets cracked the egg on their side of the scoreboard late in the second half when Luke Myers connected on a shot.
“It was just an excellently placed ball,” Wilcox said. “We had a free kick straight on and Lucas has great finesse. He was able to chip it up and beat the keeper.”
The loss dipped Chanute’s record to 6-9 overall while Eudora improved to 6-8-1.
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Chanute played its regular season finale at Bonner Springs on Thursday and now preps for the Class 4-3-2-1A postseason.
“Today’s game helped a lot,” Wilcox said. “There’s not a lot of teams in 4A that are way better than Eudora. We won’t see somebody like that. Eudora helped us get better and play fast just in time.”
