Allen’s Patrick Alouidor delivered when his team needed it most in a 3-1 comeback win over Pratt Saturday. The Turks and Caicos native scored all three goals for Allen.
It was sweet revenge for the Red Devils (7-2-1; 4-2 KJCCC), who fell to Pratt earlier this season and suffered a shock 2-1 loss to the Beavers in last year’s playoffs to end Allen’s season.
“The win feels good,” said Alouidor. “Last year I didn’t get much playing time as a freshman, so they didn’t know I could score. It’s been great to help the team.”
Pratt’s Gregor Brown scored the opening goal only 11 minutes into the game to put Allen in an early 1-0 hole, but the second half was all Allen. Five minutes into the second half, Alouidor connected with a pass from Ayoup Bader to tie the game at 1-1.
Alouidor then scored an unassisted goal only a few minutes later to put the Red Devils ahead, 2-1.
“We’ve started slow in the first half a lot, and we have to work on finishing our chances,” said Alouidor. “The second half was way better, and we brought a better attitude. We found our way to the goal, which is all that matters in the end.”
Alouidor stayed hot, scoring his third goal of the game and 11th goal of the season off a feed from Wisdom Nkwamba to take a 3-1 advantage late in the second half.
Allen’s Alouidor led the way offensively with a team-high four shots on goal and five shots total while Jose Haboud, Jeff Beljour, Calum Murphy and Bader each had two shots.
Guarav Sandhu, from Toronto, Canada, had a busy day in goal for Allen, going for nine saves out of Pratt’s 10 shots on goal.
“In the second half we got more organized and started talking more,” said Sandhu. “We calmed down and played our game in the second half, but in the first half we were playing a bit of their game.”
The Red Devils face another tough matchp this week, when
“We know that Johnson is a tough team and is going to cause us some problems,” Bader said. “We are still going into the game with the same mentality from the first game, yet the coaches prepared us and now we have to work and improve for the game tomorrow.”
The Red Devils travel to Johnson County Community College on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
