Our opponent for Senior Night for the Class of 2012 was Lawrence North. All 10 Seniors were able to start including Kayla Delaney who is one month out from tearing her ACL. This is always an exciting but emotional night for all. It is difficult to focus on the task at hand with the events taking place for our Seniors.
The girls played hard but it was not the cleanest game this year. It took 72 minutes for us to find the net as Maddie Malatestinic put away the game winner after a nice ball played through from Tayler Fitts. Annie Clark recorded her first shutout of her career in the 1-0 victory.
Goals: Maddie Malatestinic
Assists: Tayler Fitts
Saves: Annie Clark (5)
Game Stats
The JV Lady Braves came out fighting for a win tonight which is just what they received! The Braves beat Lawrence North Junior Varsity 6-0. The girls did just what I asked of them coming off our game Monday --finished the chances we are given and play team wide defense to protect our keepers and get a shut out!
The first half was played a little more evenly than it should have been. LN was marking well in their own half and we were having a hard time moving off the ball to separate ourselves from them. With a few substitutions and conversations on the sideline, we were able to go up one to zero on a goal by Betsy Bennett with six minutes to play in the half assisted by fellow captain Tayler Fitts! Betsy was the spark to our offense tonight with yet another goal, this time wth only two minutes to play in the half! Betsy received the ball outside the box and continued to take on three defenders before getting a beautiful left footed shot off for an unassisted second goal.
The Braves came out strong in the second half knowing that they needed to keep scoring. We continued to dominate the middle of the field by great central midfield effort from Abby Dill and Deirdre Kennedy. Abby captilized on her great efforts by scoring an unassisted goal with thirteen minutes left to play in the half! This opened the flood gates for our team offensively and our chances started falling into the back of the net. We had fifteen shots in the next thirteen
minutes! With 8 minutes to play Betsy played a great ball down the right side to Olivia Malatestinic who finished for our fourth goal. Just one minute late, Olivia (goal hungry) took the ball down the field herself and scored to make the score five to zero! With five minutes to play forward Kate Hahn ripped a shot from just outside the box that Zoe Stein was able to put away off the rebound. The Lady
Braves finished the game 6-0 with a great overall performance, but exceptional second half.
Goals: Betsy Bennett 2, Olivia Malatestinic 2, Abby Dill, Zoe Stein
Assists: Tayler Fitts, Betsy Bennett, Kate Hahn