It took the fourth game of the season for St. Charles East to score a goal last year.

It didn’t take them nearly as long when the Saints opened their season on Monday at Oswego .

The Saints scored the first three goals of the game and then had to tighten up on defense down the stretch to hold on for the 3-2 victory.

“I don’t think the boys were expecting to play that well in that first half, and even the first 10 minutes of the second half, and then the wheels kind of fell off in the way we defended dead balls,” Saints coach Vince DiNuzzo said. “We have to be much better. It was two corner kicks that we just didn’t deal with, you know, and they made us pay and then we scrambled for our lives for the last five minutes defending.”

Aidan Richbell used a first-time volley to deposit so

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