Bromfield boys overwhelm Georgetown, advance to next round of soccer division championship

by John Osborn · Friday, November 8, 2024

Harvard’s boys soccer team shut out Georgetown 6-0 in a one-sided home match against the Royal Lancers Tuesday afternoon, allowing the Trojans to advance to the next round of this year’s Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 5 state championship. The game was played in Lancaster on a turf field owned by the Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association.

There were missed opportunities, as there are in any game, but Thursday’s contest proved that Bromfield’s offense knows how to score. The team’s first goal came less than five minutes into the first half, headed into the Georgetown net by junior Conor Glew on a well-placed pass from his brother, junior Liam Glew. Three more goals followed, the first by junior Tomas Woelper on another assist by Liam Glew, one by Liam Glew with an assist by sophomore Finn Candon, and the third by junior Colin Holt assisted by junior Jake O’Neil, leaving Georgetown behind 4-0 at the end of the half.

Bromfield scored twice in the second half, with goals one minute apart, before coach Alex Horne began pulling his starters from the lineup. Both goals were scored by senior Ethan Russo, the first on a well-placed corner kick by senior Theo Myles, and the other on an assist by senior Vasilis Psathas, with more than 30 minutes left in the game.

The Trojan offense controlled the ball for most of the game but continued to be plagued by offsides—two in the first half and four in the second—and failure to convert corners to points on the scoreboard, having scored only once on the nine corners it won in Tuesday’s game. There were no injuries, but plenty of fouls, eight committed by Bromfield players and a dozen called on the Royal Lancers, including the yellow card given to Georgetown junior captain Bryce Hodges for bad language.

With its Tuesday win, Bromfield advanced to the MIAA Division 5 round of 16 and will face No. 19 seed University Park Campus of Worcester, at Ayer Shirley Regional High School, Friday, Nov. 8 at 3:45 p.m.