I came eager and ready to get my mission accomplished. I sat with Brian Kamler, who is a sports color analyst for ESPN700, so I knew I could listen to him and his partner call the game and I could listen to it to make sure my notes were also correct. The game went well and I came up with nearly 4 pages of notes. I talked with MLS.com writer Randy Davis, and he told me that he was asked to write a recap by one of the RSL interns. I told him I was doing the same, so we both agreed to write a different kind of angle on the game, so it wasn't the same.
I came home that evening after the 1-1 tie game and doing some interviews and helping PR with the journalists. I thought I had a deadline, so I worked fervently. After about 2 and a half hours I finally finished my RECAP that I wrote in a rush. I emailed it into my boss.
It has been 2 days since then, and he has not emailed me back giving me any kind of feed back. I emailed him again Sunday morning with a slightly altered version of the release just in case...Still no reply over a day later. I went onto RSL's website only to find that Randy's version of his RECAP had been published, and not mine. He has some quote from players and the head coach, who we didn't even interview after the game. He did a great job as always, but I'm a little upset that mine didn't go up as well. It's more of a play-by-play recap, and I thought I did well writing it. So i'm a little upset that it didn't get published after spending my entire Saturday evening and night working on it. If my release wasn't needed, it would have been nice to know, and I wouldn't have written it. Either way, I didn't want it to go to waste, so Ithought I would post my RECAP Release, so that it can be another sample of my writing to my blog.
REAL SALT LAKE Finish With a 1-1 Draw at
BYU Exhibition Game
Provo,
UT. (Saturday, May 19, 2012) – Real Salt Lake (8-3-2, 26 points,
West #1) Finished with a draw in the first exhibition game against BYU since
October 2009. RSL MF Will Johnson
found the back of the net for the team’s only goal in the 46th
minute where the opportunity was created by Fabian Espindola, when
Espindola chipped the ball in to the center of the box, where Johnson right
footed the ball toward the right side of the net.
Played
on the South Field on BYU’s campus, RSL came out attacking early with Espindola
getting a shot on goal in the 2nd minute. RSL continued attacking
BYU with multiple shots. A head-in from Bonfigli in the 16th minute
came off the cross bar. From there RSL had 3 corner kicks in the late teen
minutes that set RSL up for a couple more shots that seemed to be blocked by
BYU’s defense. BYU rallied back and took a shot on goal giving Kyle Reynish his
first save of the game in the 21st minute. BYU did a fantastic job
clogging up the mid field and made some really solid runs on RSL. BYU’s defense
made it difficult for RSL to get a clear shot on frame until the very end of
the first half after BYU took their first corner in the 45th minute
which resulted in the ball headed out and brought down the field where
Espindola chipped the ball into the center of the box to find Johnson, who then
put the ball away to the back of the right side of the net in the 46th
minute.
Following
the 1-0 first half, RSL brought early energy to the second stanza, most of it
through Cody Arnoux. The New York striker harassed the Cougar backline, only to
have an open shot blocked by a slide tackle from BYU’s Sterling Hancock, which
prevented Arnoux from scoring. RSL continued to do a good job wearing down BYU,
but BYU managed to keep their players fresh with 6 substitutions in the first
half, and 8 in the second half, while RSL’s only substitutions came at the
beginning of the second half with 4 substitutions.
RSL
came close a few more times in the second half with two shots by Saborio, and
another by Grabavoy that bounced off the wood work. The game started to change
starting in the 80th minute when Cruz was issued a yellow card for a
hard tackle on BYU’s David Gates.
RSL’s
last chance at scoring came in the 87th minute when Saborio was
fouled at the top of the 18 yard box that set up a free kick taken by Grabavoy
that ricochet off the far post. RSL
missed passes that created opportunities for BYU to come back into the game and
score in the 89th minute by David Gates, assisted by Dallin Cutler. BYU’s
Garrett Losee had a steal in the final 92nd minute which left him
with a wide open shot just a few yards in front of GK Kyle Reynish that went far
left of goal bringing the crowd of 3,845 to their feet to end the game.
Real
Salt Lake Match Notes – BYU 1 : 1 RSL
•
RSL
DF Chris Wingert did not suit due to
a left hamstring injury which occurred in the Seattle match. Also Chris Schuler
was missing due to a foot injury. RSL was already out talismanic MF Javier Morales due to a right
quadriceps strain.
•
Last
exhibition game against BYU was on October 2, 2009, which resulted in a 3-1
victory for the Claret-and-Cobalt over the Cougars’ turf. This occurred nearly
a month and a half before RSL captured the MLS Cup 2009 title
• BYU Men’s soccer team recently
returned from Costa Rica where they won all 3 of the games played there. BYU
host their home opener against the Los Angeles Misioneros May 24th
on the South Field at 8 p.m.
•
Real Salt Lake returns to action at its Rio Tinto
Stadium home against FC Dallas on Saturday, May 26. Tickets for that
night’s game can be purchased at www.RealSaltLake.com
or by calling (801) 727.2701.
•
RSL
had players who went to their respective national team camps, as MF Kyle Beckerman, GK Nick Rimando were called to national team camp U.S. and were not in
attendance. MF Will Johnson (Canada)
and FW Alvaro Saborio (Costa Rica)
could potentially participate in the early June FIFA dates … 18-year old RSL MF
Luis Gil could potentially be
included in the U.S. U-20 camp this summer as well.
Brigham
Young University 1: REAL SALT LAKE 1
SATURDAY,
MAY 19, 2012
South
Field
Goals
by Period
1
2 F
Brigham
Young 0 1 1
Real
Salt Lake 1 0 1
Scoring
Summary: RSL
– Johnson (Espindola) 46’
BYU
_ Gates (Cutler) 89’
Misconduct
Summary: BYU – (Hard Foul) 47’
RSL
– Alvarez (Hard Foul) 64’
Cruz
(Hard Foul) 80’
RSL
Shots- 21, Shots on Goal 3
BYU
Shots- 3, Shots on Goal 4
Lineups:
Real
Salt Lake (4-4-2) – Kyle
Reynish; , Jamison Olave, Terukazu Tanaka, Chris Estridge (Andreas Chronis 46’);
Leone Cruz, Yordany Alverez, Will Johnson (Ned Grabavoy 46’), Luis Gil, Jonny
Steele, Emiliano Bonfigli (Alvaro Saborio 46’), Fabian Espindola (Cody Arnoux
46’) Substitutes Only Made at the beginning of second half
Brigham
Young Cougars (4-3-3) – Hale Bryan 00 GK, Sterling Hancock 5,Douglas Clark 6,
Jonathan Junca 8, Will Burton 23, James Bindrup 22, Dallin Cutler 4, Jace Green
19, Scott Heaton 15, Garrett Losee 13, David Gates 12
Substitutes
Used: 6 substitutes in the first half, 8 substitutions in the second half
with the last sub coming in the 91st minute.
Referee:
Alex
Krelow
Referee's Assistants: Brad Jensen, Hamed Sadeghi 4th
Official: Justice Jex
Attendance: 3,845
Time
of Game:
5:05
Weather: Clear and 70 degrees
