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Pepper saw to it that it wasn\u2019t, though. Just 2:08 after Caraftis\u2019 goal, Pepper pounded the ball home after Xavier Rosado, working in tight quarters, tapped a pass to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Desperate SWR managed three shots after that, including one from a break down the left wing by Nick Nowak, whose shot was saved by Chris Flores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It would have been a different match if not for some spectacular stops by Rose. His best of the day was brilliant. Less than seven minutes in, Eli Tyll produced a forceful header from a corner kick by Rosado that didn\u2019t give Rose much time to react. No matter, he sprang to his right and punched the ball aside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With SWR trailing, 1-0, Randazzo struck a dangerously swerving 25-yard free kick from the left wing. The ball was earmarked for the right side of the net, but Rose made a great diving stop to his left, knocking it aside for a corner kick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey were great, but really, he\u2019s the backbone of the team,\u201d said Cummings, who captains the Wildcats along with fellow seniors Luke Gorman, Menno and Nowak. \u201cHonestly, we probably wouldn\u2019t have gotten this far without him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mancuso said Rose is \u201cunbelievable. He\u2019s an incredibly talented goalkeeper. He has been for a while. We saw it with him coming up freshman year. You know, we\u2019re lucky enough to have a couple of very talented goalkeepers on our squad [junior Killian O\u2019Reilly is the other one]. But yeah, I thought he played an incredible game, really kept us in it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asked after the game if he had felt sharp, Rose said: \u201cI thought I played well. I wish I could have done better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was on this same field that Glenn throttled SWR, 6-1, on Sept. 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat 6-1 loss was kind of a turning point for us,\u201d Mancuso said. \u201cFrom that I think we had a win, a loss and then just kind of hit our stride.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Glenn plays its home matches on a grass field, whereas SWR\u2019s home pitch is a turf field. Did the grass field take SWR out of its normal ground passing game?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t really think it takes us out of the game,\u201d Mancuso said. \u201cYou have to be able to play on both surfaces. We have both surfaces in Suffolk. I personally would take a nice grass field over a turf field, but I like the way the game is played on it. But I don\u2019t think that\u2019s really an excuse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of the Wildcats visibly took the loss hard and Mancuso consoled them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m incredibly proud of them,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know, I couldn\u2019t ask for more from this team. I think they push themselves and, you know, overcame a little bit of a rocky start [to the season] to really put something special together. It\u2019s a shame it has to stop here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kyle Rose is blooming as a goalkeeper. His coaches and teammates on the Shoreham-Wading River boys soccer team can see it. \u201cHe routinely frustrates players in practice,\u201d coach Rob Mancuso said. \u201cYou know, we say, \u2018All right, we score three, we go home.\u2019 We\u2019re there for another 20, 30 minutes if he\u2019s in net.\u201d Rose…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":113391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1743,37],"tags":[732,15509,13186,14609,10900],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-113390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-story","category-sports","tag-boys-soccer","tag-kyle-rose","tag-premium","tag-rob-mancuso","tag-shoreham-wading-river"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n