Noblesville's Spencer Holland scored a second-half goal for the Millers during their 3-0 win over Carmel Thursday at Murray Stadium. (Richie Hall)
POSTED BY: RICHIE HALL AUGUST 20, 2021 (originally published on www.readthereporter.com)
The Noblesville boys soccer team got a big win over a big rival on Thursday, as the Class 3A No. 1 Millers beat 3A No. 7 Carmel 3-0 at Murray Stadium.
Noblesville scored its first goal in the eighth minute; Palmer Ault found the back of the net off a Jake Johns assist. Spencer Holland added the second goal early in the second half, then Michael Crandley converted a penalty kick with under four minutes to go.
Millers coach Ken Dollaske was happy with the result, which gave his team a 2-0 record for the season.
“I know playing Carmel in the second game of the season, there’s still just so many emotions going on. Everybody comes in very amped up. Great crowd from our guys, from Carmel guys. There’s just so much energy.”
“Was it a perfect game. By no means, no. But I kept telling the guys that if you keep bringing heart every single game, even if you don’t have it 100 percent skill-wise, we’re going to win a lot of games this season.”
Carmel dropped to 1-1 with the loss, but coach Shane Schmidt remained upbeat.
“I thought our boys played well,” said Schmidt. He credited his team with continuing to work hard, even after the Millers scored their second goal.
“We started off the season playing the No. 7 and No. 1 and No. 3 teams in the pre-season poll,” said Schmidt. “Not many teams in the state want to take on that type of challenge, but we did and we work hard to hopefully continue to get better and we figured out a couple things tonight that we might have capabilities of being able to do and continue to work.”
Noblesville will travel to Ohio on Saturday to play Olentangy Liberty, one of the top programs in that state. Carmel will stay in the county, traveling to 3A No. 3 Hamilton Southeastern.