The Sailors seemed to have everything going for them in the first 30 minutes of Tuesday nights match up in Eagle Valley. Nathan DePuy started things off with a great goal off a slotted pass by Charlie Beurskens in the tenth minute. Not to be outdone, Charlie slammed home a magical goal of his own working off of a pass from Cruz Archuleta in the 15th minute. Then things all changed. A minute later, a loose ball in the box led to Steamboat Goalkeeper Andrew McCawley going after the loose ball but instead taking down an Eagle attacker. The call on the field was a PK that was converted on McCawley to his right. 3 minutes later Eagle tied it up with a great single effort by Aaron Ledezma to beat 2 Steamboat defenders and slot a ball home past McCawley.
From there the game became very chippy with very few first half calls from the Referees in blue. With lots of would be fouls going uncalled for both teams, both teams reached their boiling point at halftime coming together for words with one another and were quickly separated. The second half found the refs calling the game much more tig