Thanks to Coosa Pines Federal Credit Union for sponsoring our coverage this season.<\/p>\n
By ANDREW SIMONSON | Sports Editor<\/p>\n
PELHAM \u2013 The Pelham Panthers dominated their final game before area play starts with a shutout win over the Jacksonville Golden Eagles.<\/p>\n
Pelham defeated Jacksonville 10-0 on Tuesday, March 3 at Ned Bearden Stadium in just 62 minutes of game time.<\/p>\n
Bakr Al-Sugi continued his dominant start to the season by securing a natural hat trick in the first 15 minutes of the match. He would finish with five goals on the night.<\/p>\n
He opened his scoring in the sixth minute by taking a Liam Giuliani assist to put the Panthers up 1-0. Three minutes later, he broke through the back line and received a pass from Orlando Garcia to double up the lead.<\/p>\n
His hat trick came on another break and Giuliani assist to increase the lead to 3-0 in the 15th minute.<\/p>\n
The Panthers continued to press the attack, and Garcia got a goal of his own thanks to a cross from Anzel Santos in the 23rd minute.<\/p>\n
Al-Sugi then scored his fourth goal of the half off a Luis Bravo assist to make it 5-0 in the 24th minute, a scoreline that held through the halftime whistle.<\/p>\n
Garcia wasted little time scoring after the second half started after Juan Bravo switched over to him. His second goal of the match was Pelham\u2019s sixth in the 41st minute.<\/p>\n
Two minutes later, Al-Sugi closed out his evening with his fifth goal, this time scoring by himself for the 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Giuliani grabbed his third assist of the match in the 52nd minute when his pass to Warren Palacios got finished off for goal number eight.<\/p>\n
After Luis Bravo assisted Al-Sugi in the first half, he got a goal of his own in the 59th minute after converting an assist from Peyton Pilcher for the 9-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Then, a penalty kick chance in the 62nd minute gave Pelham a chance to finish off the win. The coaches gave the ball to Zeferino Evangelista for a shot at his first varsity goal, and he scored the spot kick for the walk-off goal.<\/p>\n
Dylan Palmier and Alex Hernandez secured the clean sheet in goal for the Panthers.<\/p>\n
Pelham improved to 9-1-1 and extended its unbeaten run to seven matches in a row. The No. 2 Panthers will now travel to Lions Pride Stadium to face the No. 7 Briarwood Christian Lions on Friday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
The Panthers girls lost 1-0 to Jacksonville in the early game after conceding a penalty kick in the first half. They will face the defending state champion Lions on Friday, Feb. 6 at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to Coosa Pines Federal Credit Union for sponsoring our coverage this season. By ANDREW SIMONSON | Sports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,61581,85311,85310,85312],"class_list":["post-180470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-pelham","tag-pelham-high-school","tag-pelham-panthers","tag-pelham-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}