| With stars gone, Port seeks soccer balance |
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| Written by STEVE OSTERMANN |
| Wednesday, 17 August 2011 15:49 |
Loss of several standouts prompts Pirates to regroup with well-rounded attack
Take this season’s Port Washington boys’ soccer team, for instance. A balanced approach may serve the Pirates just fine. The Pirates, who went 10-13 overall and 1-6 in the North Shore Conference last year, have at least 11 players back who contributed at the varsity level. Leading the veterans are six seniors — goalkeeper Mitch Lemons, forwards Alex Bello and Dave Cornell, midfielders Dan Macek and Colin Kinzer and defender Carlos Helmstedt. Lemons earned All-NSC second-team honors last year, and Bello is the Pirates’ top returning scorer. Port’s junior veterans include midfielders Alex Becker and James Klotz and defenders Jacob Setzke, Dakota Kwasny and Kelvyn Larsson. Sophomore forward Mason Purtell will also be counted on to bolster the team’s attack, Bultman said. “The one benefit we had last year is that most of these players got a lot of playing time,” Bultman said. “We depended a lot on Danny (Karrels) up top, and D.J. and Mitch to get us out of trouble, but our other players were there with them.” Among others in the mix for playing time, Bultman said, are seniors Mitchell Jaeger (defender), Eric Graf (forward) and Nick Kopp (defender) and freshmen Tyler Schulteis (midfielder) and Tyler Grisar (defender). Port faces the unenviable task of playing in arguably the toughest soccer conference in the state. Even so, the Pirates were close to .500 in the league last year, with two of their losses coming by one goal. Bultman sees Germantown, Cedarburg and Whitefish Bay as this year’s top NSC teams.
“With the others, we’ve got a chance to do something,” he added.
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