EAST ORANGE, NJ – Ibrahim Ilbaudo scored midway through the second half as the East Orange Campus High School boys’ varsity soccer team defeated Glen Ridge HS, 1-0, Oct. 6, at Paul Robeson Stadium to clinch the Super Essex Conference-Colonial Division championship for the third consecutive season.
Aduro Guira made 10 saves for the Jaguars.
Shaun Gordon and Roshard Jervis each had a goal and an assist in the 3-1 win at Bloomfield on Saturday, Oct. 8, in a non-division game. Desire Gonza had a goal; Dave Cornet had an assist and Guira made seven saves for the Jaguars, who won their seventh straight game to improve to a 10-1 record.
The Jaguars are 6-1 in the SEC-Colonial Division.
In earlier action, Khamary Blair and Gordon each had a goal and Jervis had one assist in the 2-0 divisional win over Science Park on Oct. 4 in Newark.
The Jaguars this season have used a balanced approach.
“The strength of our team is our balance,” said EOCHS head coach John Burdorf in an email to The Record-Transcript. “We have many different players who can play a variety of positions and succeed in them as if its their primary position. There are bunch of key players in a host of positions with really strong seniors leading the way for us. We also have younger players who have been relied heavily on as well and are playing fantastically. Up to this point in the season we had some really important and fiercely contested games in which we came out with a win. At the beginning of the season our first goal was to not only compete but to win our division, which fortunately happened. Now we have to focus on the ECT (Essex County Tournament).”
The Jaguars, seeded 10th, were scheduled to visit seventh-seeded Montclair Kimberley Academy in the ECT on Oct. 19 at 4 p.m. The winner will visit second-seeded Newark East Side in the quarterfinals on Oct. 22.
“We are coming together as a team, building good chemistry on the field and off, which doesn’t always happen, so it’s great to be a part of that,” Burdorf said. “For the rest of the season, we will have a one- game-at-a-time approach and hopefully play our best soccer yet.”
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