Shorewood opens soccer season Tuesday with 2-1 home loss to Woodinville going into Friday home match with Kennedy

Photos by Wayne Pridemore

Woodinville’s Bobby Luo goes over the back of Shorewood’s Colby Hodgen

The Shorewood boys’ soccer team opened its season with a 2-1 home loss to Woodinville going into another home non-conference match Friday against Kennedy Catholic of Burien.

Thunderbird Jack Allen (in white and blue) kicks the ball
down the sideline past a Falcon defender.

In the home loss to Woodinville, Shorewood opened the scoring in the 20th minute with a penalty-kick goal by Taj McChesney after he was fouled in the box. The half ended with Shorewood leading, 1-0.

Shorewood’s Connor McGrath in white and blue
 and his opponent fight for position to control the ball.

In the second half, Woodinville tied the score on a penalty kick in the 53rd minute. Fourteen minutes later, the same Woodinville player found the net for the game winner.

Falcon Mesfin Symons heads the ball past Shorewood’s Ali Uvence
(in white and blue)

Woodinville now has a 2-0 record, while Shorewood is 0-1.

T-Bird Callahan Gobel, number 5, keeps the ball in play.

Kyle Crawford and Isaac Whitaker shared goal-keeping duties for Shorewood.

Woodinville’s Cole Grimsby comes over the top of Shorewood’s Sean McCurdy.

Shorewood and Kennedy meet Friday at 7:30pm at Shoreline Stadium, with junior varsity teams from the two schools playing at 5:30pm.

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