CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2013 Offensive momentum was hard to come by as Spokane Velocity and Corpus Christi Sharks held each other to a scoreless draw in a USL League One match at Cabaniss Athletic Complex on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last-place Corpus Christi (0-3-3) outshot Spokane 9-7 but the Velocity\u2019s defense, led by Camron Miller\u2019s six clearances, had 14 total to hold the Sharks to zero on-target attempts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Spokane (4-1-2) didn\u2019t get its first on-target shot until the 23rd minute with an attempt from Luis Gil, but it was saved by 23-year-old keeper Mason McCready, who started in place of the league\u2019s save leader James Talbot. Talbot was out due to injury.<\/p>\n
The Velocity mustered just two total first-half shots with the other at the ninth minute.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While Spokane controlled possession with a 66% rate in the period, and had nine touches in Corpus Christi\u2019s box, it allowed four attempts in the fourth, 15th, 16th, and 45th minutes.<\/p>\n
The Velocity and Sharks traded shots with four each in the second period and controlled possession evenly with Spokane holding the edge at a 51% rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Spokane and Corpus Christi had final scoring chances in stoppage time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Sharks nearly had a gamewinner off a set piece in 90+2\u2019 with a shot from Blake Bowen but it missed wide to the left.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 90+4\u2019, Velocity forward Lucky Opara was fouled by Tomas Pondeca setting up one last scoring opportunity for Spokane. Right wing Marky Hernandez started the set piece and launched a pass to a crowded goalie box, but the Corpus Christi defense cleared it away.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Spokane maintained offensive pressure with 20 touches in Corpus Christ\u2019s box – led by Shavon John-Brown\u2019s eight. The Sharks finished with just seven in the Velocity\u2019s penalty area. But Corpus Christi\u2019s defense, with 21 clearances, and 15 tackles, allowed Spokane only three total on-target attempts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Spokane returns to ONE Spokane Stadium to host fourth-ranked FC Naples (4-2-2) on May 10 at 3 p.m. The game will be streamed on ESPN+.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2013 Offensive momentum was hard to come by as Spokane Velocity and Corpus Christi Sharks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-276690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}