News Release<\/p>\n
FORT WAYNE \u2013 Coming off yet another impressive performance at Ruoff Mortgage Stadium, Fort Wayne Football Club is set to welcome Corpus Christi FC to its home grounds on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Fort Wayne FC remains unbeaten in regulation at 6411 Bass Road with a 2-0-2 record there, which includes Saturday night\u2019s thriller with USL Championship-side Indy Eleven. Fort Wayne FC\u2019s Jack Thomas forced penalty kicks with a goal in stoppage time, evening the score at 2-all, before Indy Eleven netted three of the four PK goals to earn the extra two points in the Prinx Tires USL Cup match.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fight in this group has been amazing,\u201d said Fort Wayne FC head coach Mike Avery, who has the youngest roster in USL League One \u2013 with 15 players having made their professional debuts this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are three things I love about this team: They\u2019re really talented; they play with a lot of joy and are a lot of fun to be around; and they work, there is not a day where they don\u2019t work. For them to come back (Saturday) and keep fighting, keep fighting, it doesn\u2019t surprise me at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
The parking lot will open at 4:45 p.m., the stadium gates at 5:30 p.m., and kickoff will be at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Tied for sixth in the 17-team USL League One standings, Wednesday\u2019s match looms large for Fort Wayne FC (3-2-2 in league play); Corpus Christi is a league-worst 0-4-3.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to make this the hardest place to play in the league. That\u2019s what the goal is,\u201d Avery said, noting that immediately following the match against Indy Eleven he reminded his players of the importance of \u201cturning the page\u201d to focus on Corpus Christi in a \u201creally, really important game\u201d for Fort Wayne FC.<\/p>\n
This will complete a five-match homestand for Fort Wayne FC, which plays at Athletic Club Boise in Boise, Idaho, this Saturday at 9 p.m. Fort Wayne time.<\/p>\n
Before checking in against Indy Eleven, Thomas had missed three straight matches due to injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d been out for three weeks and it had been annoying,\u201d said Thomas, who entered the match during the 78th minute and scored in the 91st.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got injured the week before the home opener and the home opener is the one that everyone wants to play in. It was hard to bounce from that, but my (physical training) and rehab was going well, I was able to get into training (last) week, and I just tried to get myself fit for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taig Healy, who scored Fort Wayne FC\u2019s first goal, has now found the back of the net in five of the last six matches regardless of competition, and he\u2019s scored in all four matches at Ruoff Mortgage Stadium. Goalkeeper Bernd Schipmann, who didn\u2019t play Saturday, has four-save clean sheets in his last two matches \u2013 a 3-0 victory over Portland Hearts of Pine on May 6 and a 1-0 victory over Westchester SC on May 9.<\/p>\n
The match against Corpus Christi will air on ESPN+ and locally on digital channel 21.3.<\/p>\n
After facing AC Boise, Fort Wayne FC is back at Ruoff Mortgage Stadium for a match May 30 against AV Alta FC \u2013 the last match at 6411 Bass Road until July 4 against the Spokane Velocity FC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News Release FORT WAYNE \u2013 Coming off yet another impressive performance at Ruoff Mortgage Stadium, Fort Wayne Football…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-301550","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\/301550","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=301550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}