Freedom High School boys soccer team wins fifth straight Lehigh Valley Conference contest

The surprise team of the Lehigh Valley Conference so far this season has no superstar scorer but a lot of offensive weapons including underrated ones like senior midfielder Brendan Kaulius.

The team has no clamp-down defender, although the core five in the backfield rotation are pretty solid and play in front of a good goalie in Josh Wasilick.

The squad also has a five-game LVC winning streak and remains in first place in the East Division following today's 2-0 win over Northampton.

Say hello to the Freedom High School boys soccer team, which won a total of four games last season and set a school record with 13 losses.

"I'm a little surprised myself," said beaming Freedom coach Michael O'Connell, who inherited a good portion of last year's team and in eight games has completely turned around its attitude. "We're playing a team game and supporting each other and not relying on one player."

Freedom (6-2 overall, 5-1 LVC) immediately took control of play on its home field. Northampton (4-4, 4-2) was flat even though it came riding a four-game winning streak. Only three Konkrete Kids teams, in 29 years, ever won as many as five games in a row.

"Our touches were rough, we had our heads down, we were not anticipating well and we were playing slow," Northampton coach Craig Carvin said. "I'm not sure why. Maybe we thought it was going to be as easy as some of our other games."

Junior midfielder Nigel Long gave the Patriots a 1-0 lead 7:34 into the contest with his second goal of the season. He scored from 15 yards out with a low shot after taking a pass from Baidy Ba.

Freshman Stephen Gabor scored his team-leading fifth goal of the season to make it 2-0 just 1:52 into the second half on a pass from Brendan Kaulius.

"That's how we score a lot of our goals," Kaulius said. "Dribbling it down and laying it off and somebody putting it in."

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Freedom High School boys soccer team wins fifth straight Lehigh Valley Conference contest