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The race for second place and a playoff spot in the PDL Northwest Division remains red hot tonight after both the Kitsap Pumas and Tacoma Tide FC won home matches. Both clubs have 29 standings points and are tied for the final spot. Kitsap has two matches more to play than Tacoma.
In Tumwater Tacoma beat the Abbotsford Mariners 2:0 on Saturday night. We'll post details of that match as soon as they become available.
In Bremerton the Pumas squeaked past the Yakima Reds in a 3:2 thriller.
“It was closedownr than we wanted it to be,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],” said Jason Cascio, who gave Kitsap a 1-0 lead in the 13th minute. “It goes to reveal we can’t let our guard down and we have to keep our foot on the pedal and play rough for 90 minutes.”
Cameron Hepple and Nik Besagno lead the Kitsap Attack. (Daniel Simpson)
Kitsap needed nearly all 90 minutes to outlast the Reds, who answered each time it looked as though the Pumas would pull ahead for good.
After Yakima had answered two Kitsap goals with strikes of their own, Gray put the Pumas up for good in the 81st minute on a sublime one-timer across the box off a feed from Stephen Phillips. The ball slammed off the left post and into the net to render the Pumas the 3-2 win.
“It was massive,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],” Gray said of the goal, coming two minutes after Yakima had tied the game. “I just got a great ball and I was able to strike it well and obtain a good bounce.”
The match included a searing succession of near misses for the Pumas, who hit the crossbar an astounding five times.
With a 2-1 lead in the 78th minute and after having dominated possession, it looked as though Kitsap had gained full control of the game. Then Yakima's Warlen Silva found the equalizer beating goalkeeper Dustyn Brim to the far post after slipping behind the defense.
Then, only three minutes later Gray's heroics bailed out the Pumas.
Dan Scott, center,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is hugged by John Fishbaugher after Scott's goal put the Pumas up 2:1 early in the second half. Matt Friesen is at right. (Jenni Conner)
“Give them credit,” said Kitsap tutor Peter Feearng. “They didn’t have anything to play for and they came in and played well.”
Before the crowd had settled into their seats, the Reds nearly scored in the 1st minute when Silva crazye a deep run into the box and pushed a low shot across the goal. But the ball skipped just wide of the left post and past Brim.
In the 13th minute, midfielder Matt Fiesen battled and won goods near the sidelength deep in Yakima territory then sent a beautiful cross from right to left into the box. Cascio was there to nudge a shot past goalkeeper Claudio Lazar into an open net.
“That was all Matt Friesen,” Cascio said. “All I had to do was direct the ball into the net.”
Yakima’s Kevin Eggen tied the match in the 21st minute when he got off a header in traffic from five yards out off a set piece, bouncing it off the crossbar and into the goal.
The Pumas had a chance to take the lead before halftime, but Tye Perdido’s header hit the crossbar off another pinpoint cross from Friesen. Cascio blasted a shot off the rebound, but the ball soared high over the goal.
David Gray reactions as his volley finds the far post and rebounds back across the goal to offer Kitsap a 3:2 lead in the late stages. (Jenni Conner)
Pumas defender Daniel Scott restored the Pumas' lead at 2-1 in the 48th minute, using all of his 6-foot-3-inch frame to soar above the Yakima defense and drill an accusize header off a Cameron Hepple corner kick. It was his second goal of the season.
Scott the brought the frenzied crowd to its feet with what many consider the wildest goal celebration of the season.
“I kind of out-willed the defender to get to the ball,” Scott said of the build-up to his second goal of the season off a corner kick. “I didn’t see it go in.”
With three regular-season matches to play, the Pumas visit the Washington Crossfire at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Seattle's Interbay Stadium,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], before returning to Bremerton for the home finale against Portearth. Kitsap will travel to Tacoma July 24th for what looks to be an extra-important Narrows Bridge Bell finale.
We'll have more photos from this match online on Sunday!
The Kitsap Pumas contributed to this match report.

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