PCHS improves to 5-1 with 6-1 Homecoming victory over Dexter
Gaw leads with four goals
GUILFORD — The move to 8-player boys soccer has worked out very well for Piscataquis Community High School for the first month of the season. The Pirates earned a 6-1 victory over Dexter Regional High School during the team’s 2024 Homecoming game on Saturday, Sept. 28, improving to 5-1.
Win No. 5 equaled last year’s total playing in Class D North, those Pirates went 5-8-1, and is just one shy of six victories earned by the 2022 PCHS which went 6-7-1 as a Class C North program. The 2023 team lost in a preliminary round match and the 2022 Pirates were one spot out of qualifying for that fall’s tournament.
CELEBRATING HOMECOMING — PCHS’ Jacob Knowles controls the soccer ball between teammate Brandon Reed and Dexter’s Ezekiel Bermudez, with Pirate Dawson Draper and Nathan Galligan in the background, during the 2024 PCHS Homecoming game vs. the Tigers on Sept. 28. The Pirates won 6-1 to improve to 5-1 on the season.
Against Dexter PCHS split its half dozen goals evenly between both 30-minute halves. The Pirates’ Brady Gaw would find the Tiger goal four times as he scored twice in each half. He assisted on another goal for a role in five of the six goals
During the first half PCHS’ Jacob Knowles put the ball in play on a corner kick from the right — the Pirates had an 11-0 advantage in corner kicks with nine coming in the first half. Gaw was able to head the ball into the top of the Tiger goal for the 1-0 advantage at the 20:18-mark.
FOUR-GOAL DAY — Brady Gaw and Dexter’s Nathan Brasier get tangled going for the ball. Gaw scored four goals, two in each half, to help PCHS earn a 6-1 victory on Sept. 28 in Guilford.
Just over a minute later on another Knowles corner kick, the ball was sent toward the goal from the right. Pirate Chase Lander got a hold of the loose ball and sent it in for the 2-0 lead. Late in the opening half Gavyn Gilbert, on a Gaw assist, scored to put the home team ahead 3-0.
Gaw picked up his second and third goals of the early evening during the middle of the second half, with Gilbert assisting on the first of these.
FALLING INBETWEEN — Brady Ball, left, and Nathan Brasier each look to gain control off the bounce.
Dexter’s Ezekiel Bermudez put his team on the scoreboard at the 14:39-mark as the ball was sent onto the PCHS side of the field and he got it first and had a shot that landed in the netting.
Goal No. 4 for Gaw came with 9:52 left to play to round out the scoring for the Pirates.
TOE TOUCHES — Gavyn Gilbert makes a move to get around Jeremiah Cobb of Dexter with PCHS’ Caleb Littlefield looking on. Gilbert would have a goal and an assist.
Simon Grenier made a game-high 11 saves for Dexter as PCHS had 31 shots on goal. Across the field Noah Kain stopped three shots on five shots by the Tigers.
Dexter fell to 2-4 on the season, having dropped four in a row.
The two teams are set to play again during Dexter’s 2024 Homecoming match at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 12.
BOYS SOCCER
PCHS 6, Dexter 1
DEXT 0 1 – 1
PCHS 3 3 – 6
First: P – Gaw (Knowles); P – Lander; P – Gilbert (Gaw)
Second: P – Gaw (Gilbert); P — Gaw; D – Bermudez; P – Gaw
Saves: Dexter — Grenier 11, PCHS — Kain 3
Corner kicks: Dexter 0, PCHS 11
Records: PCHS 5-1, Dexter 2-4