SOMERVILLE, Mass. – The Boston Breakers welcomed back a sellout crowd at Dilboy Stadium with a 4-1 thumping of FC Indiana on Friday night. The Australian combination of Kyah Simon and Tameka Butt combined for three goals while Katie Schoepfer scored once to give the Breakers their third straight victory.<\/p>\n
Schoepfer scored first, in just the ninth minute, poking in the remnants of a long-range blast from Cat Whitehill. Whitehill fired a shot from thirty-five yards that deflected off Gerarda Saintilus before clanging off the crossbar. Schoepfer, who was alone in the penalty area, put away the gift-wrapped chance for her second score of the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t surprised [my shot] led to a goal because I know how awesome our forwards are at following the ball,\u201d\u00a0said Whitehill. \u201cThey gave me too much space and from long range, my eyes get really wide. I was like, \u2018I\u2019m going to shoot this ball.\u2019 It had a wicked curve on it and the keeper wasn\u2019t able to control it and Schoepfer was able to finish it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boston lost focus in the immediate aftermath of the goal. Seconds after taking the lead, Indiana struck back through Nadia Libertini, who snuck in behind the defense off a feed from Sophia Batard and finished past Alice Binns.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose first five minutes after any kind of stoppage or goal you have to refocus, and we didn\u2019t,\u201d added Whitehill, who was often involved in the attack in addition to fulfilling her role as a defender. \u201cI\u2019m disappointed that we allowed the goal. But it\u2019s something we\u2019ll have to work on in training.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou take an early lead, that\u2019s great, but you have to keep the lead,\u201d said Lisa Cole, who captured her first home win as head coach of the Breakers. \u201cBut they\u2019re competitive and one little challenge isn\u2019t going to take them off their game. I think giving up the goal pissed them off actually. It made them mad, it made me mad.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ticked about allowing Indiana to equalizer, the Breakers didn\u2019t take long to resume their offensive style. And once the Breakers pushed forward, they never looked back. In the 13th<\/sup> minute, Kyah Simon restored the Breakers\u2019 lead by slotting a pass from Schoepfer inside the far post.<\/p>\n In the 22nd<\/sup> minute, Jess Luscinski helped Simon double her tally. Luscinski found herself in space on the left flank and crossed into the penalty area looking for Simon, who read the pass perfectly and headed the ball into the goal.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen they score a goal, it makes you really want to get one back and equalize if not get ahead of them,\u201d said Simon. \u201cIt gives you that hunger.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m pleased to have two goals, but I\u2019m a hard critic of myself so I definitely think I should have had a few more if not the team has a whole, had a few more.\u201d<\/p>\n Two shots hit the woodwork to keep Boston from running away with the lead. The first was a twenty yard free kick by Whitehill in the 24th<\/sup> minute that hit the left post. Next was a drive from Tameka Butt, who hit the crossbar in the 53rd<\/sup> minute after picking up a loose all in the penalty area.<\/p>\n Butt had to wait just four minutes to get another crack. In the 57th<\/sup> minute, she ran through the midfield before outletting the ball wide to Simon. Simon returned the ball to Butt, who volleyed a shot into the goal from the penalty mark for her first career goal.<\/p>\n \u201cMy first goal for the Breakers, so it\u2019s a memorable one,\u201d said Butt. \u201cMy teammate from Australia set me up, so it was a good goal to get. It was a counter-attack we worked on during training, getting players forward quickly. [Simon] and I were able to combine because we know how each other plays.\u201d<\/p>\n The Breakers got a fresh look once the WPS folded this spring and most of its players left for other opportunities in soccer. But the current group of Breakers have been encouraging, putting together three consecutive wins and emerging as a front-runner in the newly-established WPSL Elite League.<\/p>\n \u201cJust to be back in a Breakers\u2019 uniform and be back in front of our fans, that\u2019s a good day for us,\u201d said captain Leslie Osbourne, one of the few players from last year\u2019s Breakers team who returned for the 2012 season.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can\u2019t step off the gas,\u201d\u00a0said Osbourne. \u201cWe just have to keep going, we have a lot of potential. Each game we play, we can get better and better.\u201d<\/p>\n Julian Cardillo\u00a0can be reached\u00a0at juliancardillo@snenet.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kyah Simon led the Breakers with two goals in Friday’s 4-1 rout of FC Indiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[23,101],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Breakers1.png?fit=453%2C282","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12094"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12683,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094\/revisions\/12683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}