Joseph girls soccer team back on winning track
TRUMBULL St. Joseph didn t need to make any drastic formation changes to turn its Class LL match with Cheshire on Thursday in its favor. Instead, the defending champions just needed some patience.
The third seeded Cadets bounced back from their surprising FCIAC quarterfpatagonia backpack discountinal loss, netting four second half goals to beat the 14th seeded Rams 5 1 in the second round of the girls soccer tournament.
Goals by Miranda Quint and four minutes apart early in the second half helped the Cadets open up a 3 1 lead after a tense, evenly matched opening half.
The first half we created chances, Cadets coach said. We just didn t key on them. I just said, You ve got to stay patient. Just stay patient and we re going to get our chances. If we put them adiscount patagonia fleece vestway, we re going to be fine.
St. The sixth seeded Mustangs beat St. Joseph 1 0 on Oct. 16, snapping the Cadets 36 game (33 0 3) unbeaten streak.
Cheshire, which got a first half goal from Hannah Bonitz, finished with a 12 6 3 record.
The Cadets will carry momentum into the rematch with help from Jenna Bike. The junior scored twice on Thursday, including the game s fpatagonia chile houses for saleirst goal off a rebound 13 minutes in, and assisted on anpatagonia mountain guideother. national team, so she was eager to get the Cadets back on track.
We had 12 days of rest, so we had 12 days to prepare for this game, Bike said. I think that helped us a lot, cheap sale patagoniagetting our feet back and getting healthy and getting our minds straight.
We were really ready for this game.
With the Cadets up two goals and dominatpatagonia outlet store nevada1ing possession, Bike headed in a rebound off a corner kick wpatagonia outlet store nevadaith 22:12 left to widen the lead. Quint s goal, which put the Cadets up 2 1 with 37:24 left, was also tallied off a corner kick.
Cheshire s struggles with defending the corner kicks were all too familiar.
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The Cadets peppered the Chespatagonia outlet store nevada2hire net in the second half. They outshot the Rams 10 2 after halftime, forcing freshman goalie to make several top stops.
I thought we looked very, very good today in the second half withpatagonia everlong review movies the great combination play, Nogueira said. Jenna, Lindsey, Marissa (Grasso) up top, gave us exceptional speed.
Savko set up Grasso off a counter rush for the Cadets fifth goal with 4:02 remaining.
The Cadets are aware that the spotlight s on them, but they aren t feeling any pressure to repeat in Class LL after going 22 0 1 last year.
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We definitely know that we have the target on our backs, Bike said. But we re all prepared and we re all ready.
A first round bye provided the Cadets some rest off of their loss to New Canaan on penalty kicks. It also gave them time to learn from their mistakes.
It was just one of those things where the other team (New Canaan) defended well, Nogueira said. We didn t put our chances in. Our goal s the same wpatagonia kids vest for salee just want to come out and take every game as it is. .
