Three is the magic number for Aegean Hawks
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Andreas Nydal's hat trick leads Hawks to 3rd straight MDCVSA crown
The Aegean Hawks continued their dominance of the Metro DC/Virginia
Soccer Association with a narrow 3-2 win over World Bank SC in the
MDCVSA final. Andreas Nydal scored a hat trick for the Hawks to lead
them to their third straight MDCVSA championship, and a place in the
USASA Region I finals next year.
10 minutes into the match, World Bank struck first, only to have
Nydal equalize in the 37th minute after he put home a rebound off an
Alan Golden shot. Just after the halftime break Justin Bodiya sent a
cross into the area that found Nydal for his second of the game. In
the 60th minute, World Bank brought the game level after the referee
awarded them a penalty kick, but 10 minutes later, Nydal dribbled
through traffic and completed the hat trick and scored the game-
winner with an impressive individual effort.
The Hawks held on for the last 20 minutes to make their third
straight trip to the Region I finals. Last year, they won the
regional tournament and not only earned their first appearance in the
Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, but they booked their ticket to the
national cup finals in Seattle. They were knocked out of the Open Cup
in the first round by the Harrisburg City Islanders of the USL Second
Division, and advanced to the national semifinals where they fell to
eventual champion El Paso Indios USA of the NPSL.