Golden Eagles girls soccer boot Hayes, Teays Valley

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Big Wal­nut played even with vis­it­ing Delaware Hayes in the open­ing half of last Tuesday’s (Sep­tem­ber 4) Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal Divi­sion show­down at Golden Eagles Soc­cer Sta­dium in Sun­bury, but the hosts pulled away late to secure a hard-fought 3–1 victory.

“It was a good win,” Golden Eagle head coach Jim Rear­don said. “Delaware played hard, they have a very good team, but we’ve been 100 per­cent bet­ter fin­ish­ing games off than we were a year ago, and we did a good job again tonight.”

Sky­lar Fleak opened the scor­ing, giv­ing the Golden Eagles an early 1–0 lead before Hayes’ Moriah Howard scored to even things up, send­ing the teams into the inter­mis­sion dead­locked at 1–1.

But things fell apart for the Pac­ers in the sec­ond half. A red card had Hayes play­ing a man down most of the way, and the Golden Eagles cap­i­tal­ized. Haley Lescin­sky and Elyse Schn­abel broke the game open, scor­ing two second-half goals as BW lev­eled its sea­son and con­fer­ence records at 3–3 and 1–1.

“It was an unfor­tu­nate thing, the red card, but they played hard and didn’t quit,” Reardon said. “We played well, too, and I’m happy we got the win.”

BIG WALNUT 5, TEAYS VALLEY 0 — Sky­lar Fleak con­tin­ues to zero in on oppo­nents’ goals, pow­er­ing home three goals in last Saturday’s non-conference vic­tory at against the home-standing Vikings at Ashville.

Jen­nie Wenger and Elyse Schn­abel joined Fleak in the scor­ing col­umn. Macken­zie Pike and Jor­dan Lyle manned the Golden Eagle net with Pike turn­ing away the lone Teays Val­ley shot on goal.

With the win, Big Wal­nut climbed over the .500 mark with a 4–3 record.

Posted by Gary Henery on Sep 12 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.