Soccer Recap: Nease Has No Trouble Against Fernandina Beach

Nease's game last Thursday was a loss, but they didn't let that memory haunt them on Friday. Everything went their way against the Fernandina Beach Pirates as the Nease Panthers made off with a 7-1 win. Tyler Ghazanfari was a massive factor in the win as he booted in three goals all by himself.

Pablo Diaz, who's played more minutes than anyone else on the Nease squad sat out for Friday's game. With Diaz sidelined, Nease had to make some big changes to the lineup. Samuel Ortiz played for 70 minutes having averaged 46.2 this season and Tegan Bartell got 80 vs. an average of 51.1.

Panthers

Previous 3 Games (Home)

01/17/25 vs Fernandina Beach	7-1
01/11/25 vs Bishop Kenny	5-1
01/07/25 vs Tocoi Creek	3-1

Nease pushed their record up to 7-5-3 with the victory, which was their third straight at home. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 15 goals over those three matchups. As for Fernandina Beach, their loss dropped their record down to 8-7-1.

Nease will get to enjoy the win for a while: their next game is against Matanzas at 5:30 p.m. on January 28th. Matanzas is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 2.6 goals per game this season. Fernandina Beach has already played their next contest, an 8-0 win against Andrew Jackson on the 24th.