Six Yellow Cards Assure Rematch Clean as Whistle : Soccer: Harvard-Westlake’s 2-0 victory in first game with Notre Dame since Angelini incident is uneventful.

At long last, a happy ending.

Harvard-Westlake High defeated Notre Dame, 2-0, Wednesday at Harvard-Westlake in a Mission League soccer match that was thankfully uneventful.

In the previous meeting between the teams last February, Notre Dame’s Ryan Herrera was kicked in the head by the Wolverines’ Dwight Angelini, ending both players’ seasons and touching off a painful legal and emotional ordeal for both.

Angelini graduated last year but his brother, Brian, and Herrera both played--Herrera at sweeper and Angelini at midfield. As players and coaches confidently predicted before the match, the two players--and the two teams--played a routine match in which the referee doled out six yellow cards, but compared to last season’s meeting was sparkling clean.

“I’m just glad it turned to be a very clean match,” said Angelini, who scored the first goal for the Wolverines. “There were no problems or anything. That’s what I expected.”

Herrera, who suffered headaches and neck pain for many months after the kick, was unhappy about the defeat but acknowledged he felt a tinge of relief.

“At least coming here is gone,” he said. “It was the scariest part of the season. But I feel great.”

Said Notre Dame Coach Colm McFeeley: “We’re all real pleased. It’s good for the game that there were no injuries.”

The first half was a scoreless struggle. In the second half, Harvard-Westlake (10-0-3, 5-0 in league play) created some good scoring opportunities and converted.

In the eighth minute of the second half, Angelini received a crossing pass on a free kick from junior midfielder Jeremy Kroger, touched it past Notre Dame goalkeeper Charlie Butterworth and scored to make it 1-0. Wolverine junior Warren Davidoff added an insurance goal in the 28th minute.

Notre Dame (9-5, 2-3) could not generate much offense and was outshot, 12-3.

“I’m extremely disappointed,” McFeeley said. “Not to take anything away from these lads here, but I don’t think (Harvard-Westlake) is as good as they were last year or the year before. We should have done a lot better.”