PORTLAND — With only two games remaining before the Class A tournament begins, the Deering High School Rams boy’s varsity soccer team is making the most of their time, winning 2-0 Tuesday afternoon against Thornton Academy’s Golden Trojans.

The score stood at a solid stalemate in the first half, 0-0. In the second half an indirect kick by Erick Pereira deflected off the Trojan goalkeeper into the net, creating Pereira’s second goal this season.

With less than twelve minutes left in play, Deering’s Iessa Ramadan tallied an assist when his shot deflected off the goalkeeper and was knocked in by Chris Irakoze for the goal. That was Ramadan’s seventh assist of the season and Irakoze’s third goal.

“I’m happy we didn’t make any big mistakes,” said Deering head coach Joel Costigan, in his sixth year of coaching, “Our energy was pretty flat all game. There’s stuff we need to work on. Ramadan played pretty well. Conor Doane played well. Today was definitely the best game we’ve played in two weeks. We played clean.”

Thornton Academy varsity coach Andrew Carlson said, “We knew they’d be a good team coming off a loss from Massabesic. We played a great sixty-five minutes but we lost the impetus in the last ten to fifteen minutes. You’ve got to play a clean game with the playoffs coming up.”

Deering record stands 10-1-1 for the season. Deering hosts Cheverus Thursday at 5 p.m. and Portland on Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m.

The Golden Trojans finished off 7-4-2 for the season. The Boys Class A state tournament preliminaries begin Oct. 21st.