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State pro notes: Marshfield's Finlay firing on all cylinders for Crew

07/07/2015, 10:45pm CDT
By ERIC ANDERSON
Ethan Finlay

Ethan Finlay (Marshfield) might lead Major League Soccer in assists this season, but the fourth-year pro certainly can finish off passes, too.

Finlay continued his red-hot run of form Saturday night, scoring both goals in Columbus Crew SC's 2-1 victory over the visiting New York Red Bulls. (Watch highlights below)

The 24-year-old has had a hand in six of the Crew's seven goals over the past three matches, scoring three times and setting up three goals. Finlay was named to the MLS Team of the Week for the second straight week on Monday.

Against the Red Bulls, it was a case of role reversal – Kei Kamara, who leads MLS in goals, assisted both of Finlay's goals. The duo have 17 goals and 15 assists between them and have combined for the goal and an assist on eight of those goals.

Finlay pulled Columbus level in the 33rd minute, running on to a ball flicked on by Kamara on the right side and bending a left-footed shot around New York goalkeeper Luis Robles. Then in the 74th, Kamara headed a cross from Federico Higuain across the box to set up Finlay, who beat Red Bulls left back Kemar Lawrence to the ball and knocked it in for his fifth goal of the season.

On Twitter: @EthanFinlay13

  • Andrew Stadler (Wauwatosa West) scored the lone goal in the 67th minute as Landskrona BoIS topped host Kristianstads FF 1-0 in a Division 1 Södra match Monday in Sweden. Stadler is tied for ninth in the third-division league with six goals in 13 matches and has 11 goals in 19 appearances in all competitions. On Twitter: @AndrewStadler
  • Forward Carlos McCrary, who played three seasons with the Madison 56ers of the National Premier Soccer League, signed with Sportfreunde-Seligenstadt of the German fifth-division Hessenliga. McCrary had 11 goals for 1. FCA Darmstadt last season, tied for 14th in the sixth-division Verbandsliga Süd, and scored last weekend as his new club opened the preseason with wins over Gastgeber Germania (4-0) and Germania Großkrotzenburg (6-1). On Twitter: @CarlosMcCrary
  • Rebekah Roller (Brookfield East) was the third star of the match Saturday as host Merilappi United lost to HJK 2-1 in a Naisten Liiga match in Finland. On Twitter: @RebekahRoller3
  • Genevieve Richard (UW) posted her first clean sheet as a professional Saturday as host Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sagamihara blanked Sfida Setagaya FC 2-0 in a Nadeshiko League Division 2 match in Japan. Richard is 4-1-0 with a 1.72 goals-against average for Nojima Stella (10-3-1), which is in second place in the 10-team league but is nine points behind league leader AC Nagano Parceiro (13-0-1) midway through the season. On Twitter: @GenRichard_GK

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