Fleak’s four goals give BW 4-3 girls soccer victory

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Sky­lar Fleak capped a pro­duc­tive night by boot­ing home her fourth goal with 10 min­utes remain­ing to lead Big Wal­nut to a 4–3 non-conference vic­tory over the host Tigers last Thurs­day night at Pick­er­ing­ton Cen­tral High School.

Big Wal­nut (2–3) held a 2–0 lead at the half and a 3–2 second-half advan­tage fol­low­ing goals by the Tigers’ Lizzie Awuah and Megan Davis. In what was a very com­pet­i­tive con­test from begin­ning to end. Cen­tral bat­tled back to pull even at 3–3 on Tay­lor Johnson’s goal, but Fleak responded to the chal­lenge as she pow­ered her game-winning goal into the back of the Tigers’ net to snap a three-game Golden Eagle los­ing streak.

“We’ve been in every game so far this sea­son,” BW head coach Jim Rear­don said, not­ing his club had dropped a pair of 2–1 deci­sions to Hilliard Darby and Olen­tangy. “Even in our 5–0 loss to Wor­thing­ton Kil­bourne we had our oppor­tu­ni­ties, but we failed to take advantage.”

Fleak took advan­tage Thurs­day night with her four-goal barrage.

“Going into the game I told Sky­lar she was right there and as a team we were on the verge of putting every­thing together.” Rear­don said. “Every­one played well, both on offense and defense … I was very pleased.”

BW goal­keeper Mack­enize Pike anchored the back end of the Golden Eagle defense with 8 saves. Lisa Slat­tery rcorded 8 stops in the Cen­tral net.

OLENTANGY 2, BIG WALNUT 1 — Abby Schwing scored 20 sec­onds into the game, Pay­ton Nay­lor added an insur­ance goal later in the half and the Braves held off a late Golden Eagle surge to secure the Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal Divi­sion deci­sion last Tues­day (August 28) at Olen­tangy High School.

“We didn’t play our best, but we got the win,” Olentangy coach Drew Zellers said. “It’s bet­ter than play­ing well and los­ing, I guess.”

Sky­lar Fleak scored for Big Wal­nut (1–2, 0–1 OCC) while the Braves’ Bai­ley Hatch stopped five shots in the Olen­tangy goal. Macken­zie Pike, with 6, and Jor­dan Lyle, with 4, com­bined for 10 saves in the Golden Eagle nets.

Posted by Gary Henery on Sep 5 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.