BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKI
Circle April 2 on your calendar. Shoreham-Wading River visits Rocky Point in a match up of the only two team with undefeated league records in Suffolk Division II.
It is quite and interesting match up. Rocky Point just earned a very very impressive 11-5 win over Comsewogue on Thursday. Shutting out any team for a half is a feat, but to do it to a fine team like Comsewogue really opened my eyes. The win was Rocky Point’s first truly quality victory this season, outside of a solid 9-3 beating of Babylon early in the year.
Rocky Point will be extremely tough and could be the favorites out in Suffolk Class B if they get that kind of defense along with their potent offense.
Shoreham has found ways to win games this year and has challenged itself with a tough non-league slate. Its three losses are to Massapequa, Farmingdale and Mountain Lakes, no shame in any of those. Yet even in league Shoreham has needed plenty of late goals to snatch wins. Dave Malave scored on a pass from Mike Delia with 1:22 left in overtime to beat Sayville and Joe Lustgarten scored with 1:38 left in overtime off a feed from Malave for a win over Kings Park.
The game against Rocky Point may finally give us a better answer to how good Shoreham is. Coach Tom Rotanz does a great job and they have plenty of weapons, but if Rocky Point continues to play this well on defense I feel it will be very tough for Shoreham to match Rocky Point goal for goal. Rocky Point did score 11 times against an excellent Comsewogue defense. Shoreham will need to try to keep the game close and then rely on its experience of winning tight games.
I hope you are looking forward to the game as much as I am.
Comments (1)
rp has had a tough time against swr in the past few seasons but Vernam gone is a big loss. He did a great job on the older Palasek last year but this year might be rp's turn. with their strong attack and defense swr might have a tough time keeping up. if they don't keep it close it will be all over for swr. Rotanz is a great coach and i am sure he will have a great plan (sure Wogue thought they had one) should be a good game. lets see if swr can pull out another close one but rp looks tough!!!!