RECAP | Scorpions 2, Indy 1

San Antonio Scorpions midfielder Marvin Chavez helped create a pair of goals to lift the visitors to a 2-1 win over Indy Eleven in front of 10,090 fans at Carroll Stadium.

Completing a quickly developing play, newly signed forward Kris Tyrpak posted his second goal in as many games for San Antonio in the 79th minute to quickly change the momentum of the match and bury Indy just 10 minutes after the Boys in Blue had equalized. The beneficiary of Chavez’s second assist of the night, Tyrpak fired low and snuck the shot under Indy Eleven goalkeeper Keith Cardona and inside the right post for the decisive goal of the match.

With his team-high fourth goal of the season, Indy Eleven midfielder Dylan Mares was the beneficiary of an excellent team play, posting the equalizing in the 69th minute after crashing the net on the weak side of the play. Wide open, Mares received a pass from Marvin Ceballos, who scrapped with four Scorpions inside the six-yard box, before settling and firing the equalizer into an open net. Eleven forward Duke Lacroix set up the play on the other side of the field, working the ball into the center before Ceballos maneuvered through traffic.

The Indy Eleven goal neutralized San Antonio’s first counterattack goal, capitalizing on a few touches to move from the Eleven’s 18-yard box into the back of Cardona’s net. It was the seventh time in the last eight matches Indy has conceded the first goal, and the Eleven are now 1W-3D-9L when being scored on first during the Fall Season. Sprawling to his left, Cardona could not get a hand on the low shot off the boot of Scorpions striker Giuseppe Gentile. His first goal of the season in 12 appearances, Gentile was set up wide after Chavez kept their march down the field alive.

Both teams struggled to get much going early in the first half, with San Antonio’s quick counter off a Dragan Stojkov corner kick on the other side of the pitch being the first fluid play of the match. Indy Eleven would take 10 shots up the opening half, but couldn’t put one on frame to test Scorpions ‘keeper Daniel Fernandes.

While things opened up dramatically for Indy Eleven in the last half hour, the only chance to truly put Fernandes on edge outside the Mares goal was a poke in the 83rd minute by Ceballos, but the scrambling Scorpions shot-stopper made a recovering kick save after getting stranded off his line seconds earlier.