ONONDAGA COUNTY – Not for a few years had the Baldwinsville boys soccer team found itself all alone atop the Salt City Athletic Conference Metro division standings.
That changed, though, when the Bees traveled to Camillus last Tuesday night and put together an impressive 2-0 victory over West Genesee to improve to 3-0-1 overall.
The Wildcats were on a roll, coming off three straight wins that included a 2-1 decision over reigning sectional Class AA champion Fayetteville-Manlius on Sept. 9.
Yet B’ville’s defense, which had not surrendered a goal since the Sept. 1 opener against Liverpool, put up another shutout. Stalwarts Ben Webster, Logan Hayes and Miles Spiegel were helped on this night by Alec Smith, who was impressive in one of his first varsity starts.
It was Alec’s older brother, Evan Smith, who provided the offense, scoring once in each half to overcome Anthony Augello’s eight saves. It was Smith’s sixth and seventh goals of the season.
Another key game came on Saturday afternoon, B’ville hosting Cicero-North Syracuse, and again B’ville pulled off a shutout – but did not score itself, either, the game ending in a 0-0 draw.
Through 100 minutes on a warm afternoon – 80 in regulation, 20 in overtime – every attempt to break the deadlock was turned away, with fine efforts in goal from Nick Hollingshead for the Bees and Wyatt Dupell for the Northstars.
In between these games was a comfortable 5-1 victory over Henninger on Thursday night where the Bees found many other scoring options besides Evan Smith, who did get two assists.
Johan Savage recorded twice, adding an assist. Webster and Spiegel both hit on their first goals of the season, showing the defense could produce, too as Greg Ramin also converted. Owen Daly, Abraham Cavalieri and Mike Sacco also earned assists.
B’ville has three more games this week, the highlight a Thursday visit from reigning sectional Class AA champion Fayetteville-Manlius after a trip to Corcoran and before a Saturday battle with sectional Class A champion East Syracuse Minoa at Spartan Stadium.
