​Local men’s soccer team notches first win of the season

The Huron United Football Club, based in Kincardine and Port Elgin and the surrounding area, plays under the Saugeen Shores United Football Club out of the Tri-City Men's Soccer League that operates within the Southwest Regional Soccer Association.

Huron United played its first regular season game Tuesday night in Listowel (centralized home field as the league is based out of Kitchener-Waterloo area), and notched its first win of the season in a 3-1 victory against the SFC Suspects of Stratford.

An early penalty call against the Suspects (hand ball in the box) led to a 1-0 start within the first five minutes of the game. Goal-scorer was Kyle Branscombe (attacking centre midfielder).

The second goal came at the 35-minute mark by an unassisted, hard-earned challenge up top (ball pressure on opposing centre back and goalkeeper) from Gerrit Satosek (centre forward) to give Huron United a 2-0 lead.

The Suspects scored a goal around the 40-minute mark, and Huron United finished the half with a 2-1 lead.

Around the 75-minute mark, James Tigert crossed the ball into the box, Satosek was able to get a head onto the ball to pass to Chris Coady (centreback) who then flicked it to Jason Leiskau (attacking centre midfielder) who was able control, bring the ball down and hit the corner of the net to give Huron United a 3-1 lead.

Huron United closed out the game strong with solid ball possession to secure its first win of the season.

The team voted Tigert as the man of the match for his field coverage, quick close-outs and energy brought to the game. Honourable mentions went to Satosek and Dylan Simon (goalkeeper).

Huron United has games almost every Tuesday night until September. The team record can be followed at: www.kdslsoccer.com/teams/default.asp?u=KDSL&s=soccer&p=home. And the team can be followed on Facebook @Huron United FC and Instagram@huronunited.