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Hinckley-Big Rock rolls past Aurora Central
Updated: October 11, 2011 9:58PM
A high school soccer game is 80 minutes long, but Hinckley-Big Rock needed just 20 of those to put away Aurora Central in the semifinal round of the Aurora Central Class 1A regional Tuesday night.
The Royals (11-8-3) scored four goals in the first 20 minutes, 51 seconds of the game and rolled to a 5-1 win earn a date with Little 10 rival and regional top seed Somonauk -- a 4-0 winner over Plano in the other contest -- in Saturday’s 4 p.m. title game.
“We made sure we jumped on it full strength and stayed on them,” said H-BR coach Paul Taeuber. “We put in those goals and it worked out perfectly.”
Bernie Conley got it started for the Royals just 94 seconds into the game when he took a pass in traffic from Jared Madden and put it past Central keeper Michael O’Donnell to make it a 1-0 game. Less than five minutes later he picked up a loose ball just inside of midfield and streaked down the right side to put another goal away.
Billy Weissinger repeated that feat at the 27:54 mark to push the lead to 3-0, then Zach Michels took a pass from Troy Sanders and capped the first half scoring with just over 19 minutes before halftime.
Weissinger later added his second goal of the night with some nice footwork in front of the goal that resulted in the final score with 33:23 to go.
“I saw the openings and my teammates found me in open spots,” Conley said. “They looked a little slow at first and we came out with some fire and scored those quick goals.”
It probably hurt a bit to admit, but Central coach
Eric Cournaya did feel the same way. The last time the two teams played on Sept. 12 H-BR had to score with eight seconds to play to forge a 3-3 tie, but didn’t show a resemblance to that team early on.
Central struggled to get an offense going as H-BR keeper Forrest Grivetti had a pretty slow night. The Chargers final got on the board when Matt Czerak scored on a penalty kick with 25:59 left in the game.
“I told the players at halftime it came down to heart,” Cournaya said. “We match up with them skill-wise, but they wanted it more than us. We dug ourselves a hole and didn’t have enough fight left.
“We played hard until the very end but just didn’t have it at the beginning.”
Central finished the season with a 12-6-1 record.
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