[1/4/03]MADISON There were no moral victories to be had for the St. Aloysius Flashes Saturday against Madison Central, and an ordinary victory was just as elusive.

St. Al (7-2-1) hung tough against the ninth-ranked Jaguars, but Madison (9-2-1) scored two goals in a 90-second span late in the second half to beat the Flashes, 3-1.

“We didn’t get much out of that game. All we did was argue with each other. Nothing got accomplished,” said St. Al junior Michael Head, who scored the Flashes’ only goal. “I don’t know what it was. We just didn’t play as a team.”

Head scored on a cross from Joe Theobald about 4 1/2 minutes into the second half to tie the game 1-1, and the action was nonstop for the next 15 minutes.

Both teams had several solid scoring chances, but great saves by both goalies and critical mistakes thwarted most of them. Madison was whistled for a half-dozen offsides plays in the second half, including two close calls that ruined breakaway opportunities. Another offisdes call in the first half negated a Madison goal.

“This game should have been seven, eight, nine to one,” Madison coach Sergio Moura said, adding that he rested several key players for a game later in the day against No. 7 Madison-St. Joe. “We were worried more about the second game than the first game.”

Finally, with just over 10 minutes to play in the second half, Madison’s Dustin Waggener broke free from his defender for an instant, and took a shot from just a few yards in front of the goal.

St. Al keeper Andy Gough stopped the shot, but the ball bounced off his hands and to his right as he fell to the ground. Waggener got the rebound and booted it in over Gough for the goal and a 2-1 lead.

Play was stopped for several minutes when St. Al defender Brett Bailess suffered a knee injury, and Madison put the game away moments after play resumed when one of its players headed in a loose ball past Gough to make it 3-1.

The ball passed through a hole in the net and was initially waved off. After a brief conference, however, the officials let the goal stand.

“It went in the goal. I was just trying to play it off like it wasn’t a goal, to see if I could get a free call,” said Gough, who made 15 saves against 20 shots.

St. Al managed only one more scoring chance, but Theobald was stopped on a breakaway. It was a similar story for the Flashes earlier in the game, when they missed three solid scoring chances in the first 10 minutes.

“That really kind of set the tone, I think,” St. Al coach Carlos Lee said of his team’s missed opportunities early on. “I thought we had good chances, and if we had scored one or two it would have been a whole different ballgame.”

St. Al 3, Ridgeland 1

In the second game, St. Al beat Ridgeland 3-1 behind a two-goal performance by Michael Head. Daniel Edney added a goal, while Joe Theobald and Patrick Sadler each had an assist.

(B) WC 7, Greenville-St. Joe 0

Greg Carroll had his second hat trick in as many games, and Dusty Pennington also scored three goals as Warren Central routed Greenville-St. Joe.

Trey Waldrop added a goal and an assist for WC, Allen Carlisle had two assists, and Luke Sellers recorded the shutout in goal.

WC (7-3-1) will host Vicksburg in on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

(G) WC 3, Greenville-St. Joe 0

Alisha Lawrence, Megan Carlisle and Kari Lieberman all scored second-half goals to break a 0-0 halftime tie and lead the Lady Vikes (5-8) to the shutout.

Kara Cretsinger and Carlisle had an assist each for the Lady Vikes, who have outscored their last two opponents 16-0.