Park opens with 1-0 win in boys' soccer
Park senior forward/midfielder Logan Zumbado-Viehauser put in the only goal of the game as the Wolfpack opened the 2024 soccer season with a 1-0 win over …
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Park senior forward/midfielder Logan Zumbado-Viehauser put in the only goal of the game as the Wolfpack opened the 2024 soccer season with a 1-0 win over visiting Bloomington Jefferson.
Zumbado-Viehauser’s goal came with just under 36 minutes remaining in the second half. Gavin Oberding got the assist.
“It was nice, I had the opportunity, so I just hit it.” said Zumbado-Viehauser, an exchange student from Costa Rica. “The defense was very good. They didn’t pass too many times, and we possessed very good.”
Park goalies Ben Fee and Leo Eiden-Giel combined for the shutout in the net.
“I’d say we moved the ball well, we possessed pretty much the whole game, they didn’t really get very many shots, we were just in their hat the whole time,” said senior captain Mac Maluski. “We need to play less east and west and more north and south. Get it up the field more and make quicker switches.”
“Possession, really good,” said head coach Andrew Bourgoine. “If there was a stat it would probably be 85/15 possession wise. Probably the best I’ve seen a team possess in a long time here at Park. But we didn’t go anywhere with it. It was all east and west, back and forth. That’s what practice is going to be the next couple of days, trying to figure out how to get possession, which we can do really well, off the field as a team and then finishing the product up. We had 15 shots probably today and just finished one. And then made it chaotic then last 10 minutes.”
Park plays at fourth-ranked Minnetonka (1-0) Thursday in a game starting at 3 p.m. The Skippers will undoubtedly be out for revenge after the Wolfpack defeated Minnetonka 1-0 in the Class AAA quarterfinals last season.
Three Suburban East Conference teams were ranked in the preseason poll, done by the Minnesota State High School Soccer Coaches Association. Woodbury was ranked No. 3, Stillwater No. 7 and Cretin-Derham Hall was ranked No. 10.
