Williamstown's Mitch St. Onge goes high in the air and really uses his head to put the ball into the Concord net off a Johnny Earls corner kick in last Friday's game in Williamstown. The 'Devils Troy Laughlin, #15 in white, looks on in admiration. The Blue Devils shutout Concord 5-0 and improved their record to 9-3. The Williamstown boy's played three games last week and they turned in a nearly perfect week. Nearly! The Blue Devil Boys beat Twinfield 2-0 on Tuesday at home and then beat Concord in a home & home series on Thursday and Friday. Williamstown both of those games by scores of 1-0 and 5-0 respectively giving the Blue Devils 3-0 week and a season record of 9-3.

It was the second Concord game, at Williamstown on Friday, that the nearly part of the nearly perfect week occurred. In the 20th minute of the game a fight broke out that resulted in four red cards being issued, Two to Concord and two to Williamstown. In a sport where game officials try to avoid issuing the harsh punishment, one red card is highly unusual, four red cards at one sitting is positively unheard of.

The penalty for getting a red card is not only ejection from the game and being made to leave the field, but also an automatic 2 game suspension. In addition, the team that has a player red carded must play shorthanded. All four players singled out in the scuffle pleaded their cases to the Officials but to no avail. The bottom line for Blue Devil fans is that the 'Devils will have to play the next two games without two starters, Dakota Parker and Nick Gagnon. The only good news to come out of the situation was that both teams had to play nine on nine and that gave Williamstown a big advantage with their team speed and the full size field.

The Concord game started out like any other and Williamstown dominated play in the first twenty minutes. Concord found themselves moving backwards more often than not in the very early going. Only four minutes into the game Dakota Parker put the Blue Devils up 1-0 as he nailed a kick from about 10 yards out on the right side that found the back of the Wildcat net. Mitch St. Onge headed in a Johnny Earls Corner kick near the 15 minute mark and the 'Devils had a 2-0 lead.

Williamstown had a lead and the frustration of the Concord players was becoming evident with almost every play. Unnecessary pushing and shoving by the Wildcats was evident for all to see. Perhaps it was frustration with the loss to the 'Devils the day before or maybe the way they were being pressured on this day or frustrated by a very vocal group of young fans down near the Concord goal that were very clear as to where their loyalties lie. It seemed that every time a Williamstown player touched the ball a Concord player made unnecessary contact.

Williamstown coach Scott Hulbert could see where things were headed and he dispatched a friend to go over and speak to the young fans on the far side of the field that were riding the Concord players very hard.

His friend didn't get there in time. Moments later the fight erupted just on the Concord side of the mid field line. This was a knockdown

drag out affair with each side giving as good as it got. Observed

from the other side of the field, several players from each side seemed to be involved but it was impossible to see who started the fight. It took the officials several minutes to break up the fight and once they did it took nearly twenty minutes to sort out just who was at fault.

Once the dust had settled two players from each side were ejected and for the remainder of the game they played 9 on 9 soccer.

Williamstown's Johnny Earls rose to the occasion. The senior captain rallied the troops when coach Hulbert was meeting with the officials during the stoppage and he told them, " Lets play soccer, don't worry about what they do. We're here to win a soccer game."

Earl's backed up his words shortly after play resumed. He booted in a goal with seven minutes left in the half that let the 'Devils take a 3-0 advantage into the intermission. Ray Burgos and Justin Beaudet (who is usually a goalkeeper) tallied the remaining two Williamstown scores in the second half and the Blue Devils picked up the 5-0 shutout win.

"I would never play a team on back to back days again," said coach Hulbert. "This stuff really started yesterday. They were really rough up at their place yesterday. But the boys stayed focused and played good "D". It also was good to have a full size field home field advantage," the coach said.

Those end of Friday game quotes came about as a result of Williamstown's 1-0 win over Concord the day before on concord's (in the words of coach Hulbert) "small & bumpy field". The Blue Devil's Mitch St. Onge scored the only goal of the game when he kicked in a throw in from Johnny Earls in a scramble in front of the Wildcat net in the game's 20th minute. Defense was the name of the game the rest of the way and thanks to six saves by Justin Beaudet Williamstown held back the Wildcats to pick up the win. " It was rough but we had opportunities we didn't convert. We were really happy to get out of there with a win," said coach Hulbert.

Last Tuesday the Blue Devils hosted Twinfield a team that they had to go into double overtime to defeat the week before. Williamstown's Ben Villa nailed a first half penalty kick in the early going and Dakota Parker found the back of the Twinfield net to give the Blue Devils all the scoring they would need as they claimed the 2-0 victory. Justin Beaudet was strong in the 'Devils net . He recorded 8 saves against the Trojans in the Blue & White's ninth victory of the season. With the three wins last week the Blue Devil Boy's record improved to 9-3 for the season. The Williamstown boy's will close out their regular season when they host Cannan in a 4 p.m. match this Friday.