Highlight Reel: Okemos/Forest Hills Central
October 24, 2014
The Okemos boys soccer team defeated Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central 1-0- with a shootout in a Division 1 Regional Semifinal on Wednesday. See below for highlights and a link to watch the game in full (click the headers to watch).
A CHANCE FOR OKEMOS - Okemos kept Forest Hills Central keeper Noah Barton busy early in this Division 1 Boys Soccer Regional Semifinal. The Chiefs' Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci tries to score in this sequence.
SCORING CHANCES FOR THE RANGERS IN OT - Lake in the second overtime, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central had a pair of scoring opportunities that just missed. Okemos would win this Division 1 Boys Regional Semifinal on penalty kicks, 5-4.
You can watch the whole game by Clicking Here. Keep an eye out for more MHSAA.tv highlights from this week's Regional games.
Be the Referee: Soccer Penalty Kick
By
Paige Winne
MHSAA Marketing & Social Media Coordinator
September 16, 2025
Be The Referee is a series of short messages designed to help educate people on the rules of different sports, to help them better understand the art of officiating, and to recruit officials.
Below is this week's segment – Soccer Penalty Kick - Listen
We have a soccer “You Make the Call” for you today.
A player is lined up to take a penalty kick. His shot gets past the keeper and hits the post, rebounding back to him. Since the keeper dove to stop the shot, he has a wide-open net, and calmly sends his second attempt straight to the back of the net.
Good goal?
It is not. After a penalty kick is taken, the kicker can only play the ball again after the goalie or another player touches it. A ball kicked off the post and directly back to the original kicker cannot be played.
In this instance, the goal is not awarded, and the defending team is given an indirect free kick at the spot of the infraction.
If the original P-K had glanced off the keeper first, then hit the post and back to the original kicker who scored, then it would have counted.
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