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Saturday, April 21, 2012
Malinda Excels For Leesburg, January 8, 2004
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| Hubert O. Dabney Stadium, Home of the Jackets |
The Midfielder Is The School's All-time Leading Goal Scorer With 77, Including 12 This Season.
LEESBURG
-- Despite playing most of his career as a midfielder, Stephen Malinda
has accomplished quite a bit around the goal for Leesburg's soccer team.
Malinda,
18, earlier this season became Leesburg's all-time scoring leader and
currently has 77 goals. He also has equaled Leesburg's single-season
goal-scoring record, getting 27 goals in both his sophomore and junior
seasons.
Last year, Malinda may have shown his value to Leesburg's team when
forward Danny Delgado went down with a torn anterior cruciate ligament
in a knee during the team's second practice of the season. Malinda moved
from midfield to forward and Leesburg's goal-scoring threat hardly
skipped a beat.
Now, Malinda is back at his more comfortable
midfield position, though he sometimes will move to forward. He has 12
goals and 14 assists for the season.
"God gave him the gift in his left foot, and there are plenty of colleges
out there looking for a left midfielder,'' Leesburg Coach Jason Gray
said about Malinda's possibility of playing beyond high school. "He is
playing midfield, but we are actually moving him around a little bit. If
we are playing a team with a weak right back, we will put his left foot
up there.''
But give Malinda his choice and he will play midfield.
"I
definitely feel a lot more comfortable at midfield,'' Malinda said.
"Forward is a good position because you get a chance to score a lot of
goals, but you are not in the game that much. In the midfield, you
control the center part of the game. It doesn't matter where I am
playing as long as we are winning.''
And Leesburg has been winning with a 9-5-2 record.
Malinda's
big left foot has also come into play on the football field, where he
has scored 99 points. He kicked 47-yard field goals twice in his career
and kicked a 55-yard field goal in practice.
In baseball, Malinda
is right-handed. An unusual combination of being a
left-footed/right-handed athlete, Malinda plays shortstop on Leesburg's
baseball team.
"I write right-handed and I throw right-handed,''
Malinda said. "I am the only person I know who is left-footed and
right-handed.''
Gray said Malinda came to him as a smart soccer player and goal scorer.
"He
is just level-headed,'' Gray said. "Somebody taught him at an early age
how to pick his shots. Somebody also taught him not just to kick the
ball really hard into the net. He has been taught on how to position the
ball and finish.''
Gray said it is obvious that Malinda would rather play in the midfield area.
"He is a lot better facing people. He likes to see everything,'' Gray said.
"I
can see him playing at the next level as the left-side mid. He loves
facing the goal, being in front of it. For him, to be facing the goal,
playing forward, we have to depend on the long ball or the through ball
[to get it to Malinda] and that is not always there with good
high-school teams.''
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Byron Lynum at Talladega College
#12 Byron Lynum
Position: Def
Hometown: Leesburg, FL
2011 Men's Soccer Roster
| # | Name | Cl. | Pos. | Ht. | Wt. | Hometown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nelson Zavala | SO | GK | Guayaquil, Ecuador | ||
| 2 | Stephen Ouintonilla | SO | Def | Sylacauga, AL | ||
| 3 | Palaash Sahai | SO | Def | Oxford, AL | ||
| 4 | Ezekiel Auther | SO | Mid | Accva, Ghana | ||
| 5 | Craig Fairley | SO | Def | New Orleans, LA | ||
| 6 | Soloman Mensah | FR | Mid | Riverdale, GA | ||
| 7 | Daniel Garzon | SO | Mid | Bogota, Colombia | ||
| 8 | Juan Alzate | SO | Mid | Cali Colombia | ||
| 10 | Romick Vertilius | SO | Mid | Bombardopolis, Hatti | ||
| 12 | Byron Lynum | FR | Def | Leesburg, FL | ||
| 16 | Di-Stephano Occila | FR | GK | Portau-Prince, Hatti | ||
| 17 | Guy-Fedson Medard | FR | Mid | Bombardopolis, Hatti | ||
| 20 | Mario Clermont | SO | Def | Portau-Prince, Hatti | ||
| 21 | Michael Duff | SR | Fwd | Lincoln, AL | ||
| 22 | Jabrowski Floyd | SO | Mid | Atlanta, GA | ||
| 23 | Luciano Cepeda | SO | Fwd | Orlando, FL |
Charles Long - Head Coach
Jeremiah Massa - Head Coach - 2nd season
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Jackets boys soccer team to face Belleview in 3A playoff action, January 31, 2012
Daily Commercial Sports Staff
Daily Commercial
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
On the strength of its Friday night victory over Citrus High School, the Leesburg High School boys soccer team has advanced to the regional playoffs and will take on Belleview High at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Leesburg Memorial Field/Hubert O. Dabney Stadium. Tickets are $6 at the gate.
The winner will advance to the final 16 in the Division 3A playoffs.
On Friday, the Jackets won the Division 3A-6 championship. Leesburg came back from a 2-0 deficit on the strength of a goal from Clay Walters and two from Clayton McDaniel, to defeat Citrus, 3-2. Leesburg held the visitors scoreless over the final 53 minutes, while netting three unanswered goals to advance.
The Citrus County Chronicle reported that, during stoppage time of the opening half, "Clay Walters launched a 25-yard shot from outside to the right of the box, finding the net under the diving hands of Hurricanes goalkeeper Kris Malz to cut Citrus' lead to 2-1.
In the second half, the Yellow Jackets defense tightened as Clayton McDaniel scored his first goal to bring the Jackets to within a goal.
"McDaniels would provide Leesburg (14-6-1) wtih the winning goal just three minutes later, booming a shot from 30 yards out, over the top of a pulled-up Citrus defense," the Chronicle said.
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January 31, 2012
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