Comets Aim To Continue Winning Ways

The Missouri Comets are 3-0 on this young season, after defeating the Milwaukee Wave in thrilling style over the weekend and the Wichita Wings twice in an opening weekend series. With a win on Friday night at 7:35 p.m. against the visiting Syracuse Silver Knights, the Comets can equal their longest winning streak since the team returned in 2010. Syracuse comes to town with a 1-2 record, losing to the Baltimore Blast and the newest MISL franchise, the Chicago Soul. Their lone victory is against their upstate New York rivals, the Rochester Lancers.

Team captain and Week 1 MISL Player of the Week, Vahid Assadpour has his team firing on all cylinders so far this season. The Comets have goals from 11 different players in their three wins. Their defense has shut down the high-powered Milwaukee Wave offense and the goal-scoring threat of Wichita’s Geison. Goalkeeper Danny Waltman continues to shine in the net, and currently sits second in the MISL with a 0.723 save percentage.

Over the offseason, the Syracuse Silver Knights signed CNY midfielder, Nate Bourdeau and former Norfolk SharX forward, Matt Clare. However, forward Slavisa Ubiparapovic and defender Nelson Santana are the players this team is built around. Ubiparapovic was last year’s MISL Rookie of the Year and Santana currently leads the team with 10 points.

The last time these two teams faced each other, the Comets set several records in a 33-12 runaway win at the Independence Events Center. That was last season though and the Comets know that both teams have changed for the better.

“We can’t hang on to what we did last year,” Head Coach Kim Roentved said, “This team is completely different now, and so are they. We have to focus on who we are now and what we need to do to accomplish our goals.”

Friday night’s game is also ‘Blue Out Night’. The team is encouraging all fans coming to the game to come decked out in their Comets’ Blue as they cheer on the hometown squad. Doors open at the Independence Events Center at 6:35 p.m. and kickoff is scheduled for 7:35 p.m.

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