February 25, 2015 - Major Arena Soccer League (MASL) Comets Complete Regular Season MASL-terpiece

2/25/15 - The Missouri Comets put an exclamation point on their perfect season with a 17-1 rout of the Tacoma Stars, finishing the regular season 20-0.

Leo Gibson scored the first four and the last three goals of the game and finished with a league record 12 points (eight goals, four assists). Danny Waltman allowed a season-low one goal to improve to 17-0, breaking Jesus Flores's old record of 16 wins set last year.

The Comets won their division by seven games over the Milwaukee Wave and won their games by an average margin of 7.2 goals per game. The Comets scored a league-high 12 goals per game and had the fourth best defense, allowing 4.8 goals per game. The Comets were number one on the power play, converting 63.27% of opportunities and their penalty killing unit was fourth best at 72.97%.

Gibson led the league in goals (48) and set records for assists (45) and points (93). Vahid Assadpour finished fourth with 61 points and Bryan Perez was 12th with 44 points. From the back, John Sosa (3rd), Brian Harris (4th), Alain Matingou (6th) and Andre Braithwaite (12th) finished among the league leaders in scoring by defenders.

In their three biggest challenges, the Comets rallied from 5-2 down to beat the Milwaukee Wave 9-7 on November 15. On New Year's Eve the Comets allowed the Wave to tie the game with less than one second left and in overtime a Bato Radoncic shot was stopped by an intentional Sosa handball, but the Wave failed to score on the penalty shootout and the Comets eventually won the game on shootouts. On January 25 the Monterrey Flash held a 7-6 lead until Missouri tied the game with 17 seconds left and won in overtime.

Going back to their tenure in the MISL, the Comets have won 25 straight regular season games.

MASL Team of the Week

GK - Danny Waltman, Missouri Comets

This is Waltman's first team of the week selection this season. The Comets finished the season 20-0 and Waltman played a total of 1006:45 minutes this season and broke the record for most wins in a season (17) in which he recorded a total of 236 saves, 10 of them on Sunday. He allowed only one goal against the Tacoma Stars and has a .744 save percentage.

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MASL Weekly - Week 18