Cda Has Its Way On Third Try Vikings Upset T-Wolves In Soccer

After losing twice to Lake City earlier in the season, the Coeur d’Alene High soccer team was looking for a little respect at Irma Anderl Field Thursday.

“We were nobody at the start of this game; everyone expected Lake City to win,” Vikings coach Dave Tabakman said.

The Vikings proved the doubters wrong and advanced to the championship of the North Idaho Cup with a 2-0 victory.

CdA (11-6-1) will take on defending Cup champion Sandpoint (8-5-2), a 3-2 winner in a shootout over Moscow, in the title match Saturday at CdA. The match begins at 4 p.m.

LC (12-2) will meet Moscow (11-5-1) in the match for third place at 1.

CdA’s first goal from Ben Davis came on a penalty kick following a yellow card to LC’s Ethan Dodson, one of three T-Wolf yellow cards in the match. Davis wrapped the ball into the bottom-left corner of the net around two LC defenders who blocked the view of goalie Chad Beadell.

“We hadn’t scored on them all season, but as soon as I made that goal we weren’t underdogs anymore,” Davis said.

After the goal, LC found itself down to the Vikings for the first time this year.

“Their defense is so good that they don’t get scored on very often and when they do you can see them get frustrated,” Vikings goalie David Scammell said.

The main agitator of that frustration was Scammell himself. Scammell got the shutout behind eight saves, including spectacular stops on close-range shots by Mike Thompson and Tim Kerns in the second half.

Kerns blasted a rebound from 10 feet out and Scammell barely got a piece of it, sending it to the top bar of the goal and ending the T-Wolves’ chances of tying the game.

“Dave Scammell was like glue today. He always plays well in big games,” Tabakman said.

Andy Vredenberg put the match away at the 72-minute mark with a goal from the left side that LC coach Jim Facciano felt his team gave away by thinking the ball was out of bounds.

“The first goal put us in a panic mode, and the second sealed the game up,” Facciano said.

The T-Wolves dominated the stat sheet, putting up 15 shots on goal to the Vikings’ six. The difference in the match turned out to be the ability to take advantage of opportunities as the Vikings scored on half their shots.

“I wonder what we had to do to get a goal because nothing was going our way,” Facciano said.

The match got a little out of hand late in the second half as LC’s Trevor Robinson and CdA’s Ty Kovatch got into a scuffle that resulted in yellow cards.

Despite the physical play, the Vikings held on to beat LC for the second year in a row in North Idaho Cup play.

“It was our day, our game,” Tabakman said.

At Moscow, the Bulldogs triumphed after nothing was settled during two 10-minute overtimes.

Sandpoint jumped out to a 2-0 lead, but couldn’t hold off the Bears. Moscow’s Chris Tulley-Doile scored the tying goal with 10 seconds remaining in regulation.