DESMIT’S DONE IT AGAIN

Quakers’ junior Ryan DeSmit scored the game-winner in the second overtime to lift visiting Friends over Boys’ Latin, 1-0. The win extended the Quakers unbeaten streak to nine games, also avenging an earlier loss.

DeSmit, a junior midfielder, ran onto a long throw-in from senior teammate Tommy Goldman, then drove it into the net’s lower corner from 24 yards out, according to Friends’ coach Doug DeSmit.

The win avenged an earlier, 2-1, loss to the Lakers on Sept. 14, and extended an unbeaten streak of nine games (8-0-1) for the Quakers.

Goalie Marshall Daly made six saves for the Quakers, who improved to 10-2-1 overall, and, 9-2 against the conference.

The Lakers (11-4, 10-2) had won 10 straight league games, and 10 of their previous 11 games.

The run had included a nine-game winning streak during which the Lakers had out-scored the opposition by a combined, 24-8, with four of their five shutouts.

Also, the Lakers were coming off of Saturday’s 2-1 victory over Fallston of Harford County, a team that had been ranked No. 5 in The Baltimore Sun.

The Quakers, meanwhile, were coming off of a 3-2 victory over Division II rival Glenelg Country School, ending the Dragons’ three-game winning streak with yet another singularly overwhelming effort by DeSmit.

In that game, the Quakers trailed, 2-0, at halftime before DeSmit sandwiched two second half goals around his assist on a third by senior teammate Justin Prushansky.

The Quakers’ run includes a 6-0 shutout of Division I leader Annapolis Area Christian; a 2-1 victory over Severn, the defending B Conference champion; a tie with Archbishop Spalding of the A Conference, which also has tied A Conference power McDonogh; and the win over Glenelg Country School to avenge an earlier, 3-1, loss.

The top three teams in each of the MIAA B Conference’s two divisions make the playoffs.