Jefferson Boys Soccer

J-Hawks topple Senior boys in OT

Esam Al-Yasseri scored the second of his two goals early in overtime to lift Jefferson past Dubuque Senior, 2-1, Thursday in a Mississippi Valley Conference boys soccer game at lower Kingston.

Senior (1-5, 1-4 MVC) took a 1-0 lead early in the game on a goal by Teo Razic. Jefferson (4-5, 3-3) had multiple attempts to score that just did not find the back of the net until the second half.

Al-Yasseri's first goal, off an assist from Tomas Damjanic, tied the game at 1-1, which is how regulation ended.

Within the first two minutes of the overtime period, Zach Trcka found Al-Yasseri, who scored the golden goal that gave the J-Hawks a victory.

Jefferson 2, Dubuque Senior 1 (OT)

Goals -- DS: Teo Razic; CRJ: Esam Al-Yasseri 2. Assists -- DS: Michael Schmit; CRJ: Tomas Damjanic, Zach Trcka.

J-Hawks split in boys soccer

Andrew Patience scored three goals and Stefan Krohn had three assists to lead Jefferson to a 9-2 rout of Waterloo East Saturday afternoon in a Mississippi Valley Conference boys soccer game at lower Kingston.

The win salvaged a split for the J-Hawks, who lost 1-0 to No. 5 Cedar Falls on a second-half penalty kick in the opener.

Levi Jellison had a pair of goals and an assist for Jefferson (3-5, 2-3 MVC) against East (0-4, 0-4).

Jake Schmidt, Victor Garcia, Ahmed El Serougui and Jordan Owen completed the J-Hawks' onslaught. Mitchell Khader had two assists and Patience, the J-Hawks' regular keeper, had an assist.

Cedar Falls 1, Jefferson 0

Goals -- CF: Not available.

Jeffferson 9, Waterloo East 2

Goals -- CRJ: Andrew Patience 3, Levi Jellison 2, Jake Schmidt, Victor Garcia, Ahmed El Serougui, Jordan Owen; WE: Admir Babic 2. Assists -- CRJ: Stefan Krohn 3, Mitchell Khader 2, Andrew Patience, Mohammed Al-Jabr, Levi Jellison, Reece Suckow.

J-Hawks come up short against Cougars

The third-ranked Kennedy boys soccer team continued to roll Thursday, beating Jefferson 3-2 at Kingston Stadium.

The Cougars (4-0, 3-0 Mississippi Valley Conference) jumped on top of the J-Hawks (2-4, 1-2) in the 24th minute on a free kick from junior midfielder Gabe Christianson from about 35 yards out.

“I just saw it, I had a good angle on it, so I just laced it up and hit it and bent it into the side netting. It was exciting,” he said.

Gabe Christianson struck again when his brother, senior forward Garet Christianson, found him deep in the penalty box. He struck it across the goal, hitting the far side post and bouncing it in. It came just 1:34 before halftime, giving the Cougars a 2-0 halftime lead.

“That second goal we lost a mark,” said Jefferson Coach John O’Connor. “That is kind of our trademark, we lose marks every once in a while.”

Kennedy struck again early in the second half and looked poised to run away with the game when Garet Christianson took a pass from Matt Peak and sneaked it along the ground into the bottom corner of the net.

Jefferson wouldn’t quit, however.

“That was really big for us, to be down three to nothing and to decide to come back and play hard,” O’Connor said. “We kept our heads up and we fought hard. We took our opportunities up top and our penalty kick was earned by the great hustle from Tomas (Damjanic).”

The penalty kick came in the 58th minute and Esam Al-Yasseri hammered it home.

“I hit it as hard as I could in the right-hand corner and luckily it went in,” Al-Yasseri said.

The J-Hawks kept the pressure on and managed to break down the Kennedy defense again in the 76th minute. Lucas Shatzer took a pass from Damjanic and hit a hard ball on the ground that got underneath Kennedy keeper Ben Feltes and went in.

“We were just trying to sit in there and defend,” Gabe Christianson said. “They brought it to us really hard there for a little while and put that second one in and it got a little scary, but we were able to edge them out.”

Kennedy 3, Jefferson 2

Goals -- Kennedy: Gabe Christianson 2 (24th, 38th), Garet Christianson (43rd);  Jefferson: Esam Al-Yasseri (58th), Lucas Shatzer (76th). Assists -- Kennedy: Garet Christianson, Matt Peak; Jefferson: Tomas Damjanic 2.

J-Hawk boys blank Hempstead

Jefferson beat Hempstead, 4-0, in a Mississippi Valley Conference boys soccer game Monday at lower Kingston.

Four different J-Hawks scored. Junior Andrew Patience pitched a shutout in goal.

Jefferson 4, Dubuque Hempstead 0

Goals -- CRJ: Eric Jones, Tomas Damjanic, Mohammed Al-Jabr, Reece Suckow. Assists -- CRJ: Esam Al-Yasseri, Jordan Owen, Jake Schmidt.