cell phone images made into pano - taken during boys soccer semi final held at Stadium
From TNT: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/05/29/1205987/stadium-savors-a-state-championship.html
Stadium savors a state championship
BY LENA TIBBELIN
Last updated: May 30th, 2010 09:48 AM (PDT)
Mission accomplished for the Stadium boys’ soccer team.
The Tigers captured the school’s every first state title in boys soccer with a 1-0 victory over Lake Stevens in the Class 4A state championship match on Saturday.
The sun came out. The fans filled up the visitors’ side of the grand stands and erupted in a loud cheer as the final whistle blew at Harry E. Lang Stadium.
Coach John Baretta finally got his state title after 22 years of coaching at Stadium. The seniors, all 12 of them, finished their high school career with the best possible ending – posing with the state title trophy.
Baretta had issued a challenge to his players before the final. “I told my boys: ‘Do you want to be a good team or a great team?’ ”
And Stadium (19-1 and nationally ranked at No. 8 by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America), which as a school hadn’t won any kind of state titles since the 1959 boys’ basketball team, responded and erased all bad memories of the bitter quarterfinal loss of the 2009 state soccer tournament.
“It feels amazing,” senior forward Dylan Gaydosh said. “All the bad feelings are gone.”
Gaydosh, who also won a state title in 2008 with Bellarmine Prep, was one of six starters who missed last year’s quarterfinal when they attended a club tournament in Florida. This year only one player went.
“Today we clicked,” Gaydosh said. “It was a key moment.”
Gaydosh scored the only goal of the match in the 30th minute when he was in the middle of the goal box scramble where Lake Stevens’ goalkeeper Tanney Eney attempted to stop Gaydosh.
“I saw the keeper come out a little bit, “Gaydosh said, “and I finessed it around him.”
Stadium continued to pressure for another goal, never feeling totally at ease against the Vikings’ tall and physical players who had numerous of long throw-ins, but the Tigers defensive four and goalkeeper Ian Clark with his three saves notched the shutout, the fourth consecutive shutout for Stadium during the state tournament.
“The credit goes to our back four,” Baretta said after he had gotten a not-so-surprising shower from his players. A TV interview thwarted the players’ first attempt, so they impatiently waited their turn to soak their coach with water from the water jug and Baretta’s weary smile indicated he knew was coming.
“We did it,” Baretta said. “I’m very, very happy.”
Plus, Baretta had found a lucky penny heads up while walking outside Stadium High School while waiting for the bus before the match.
“It’s now going to be put away,” Baretta said.
Along with the state trophy which now belongs to the Tigers for a year.
“We do lose unbelievable players, we lose 12 seniors,” Baretta said. “But that was their goal and they succeeded and no one can take this away from them.”
Lake Stevens finished the season at 18-3-1.
