SHS SOCCER: In shootout Lady Spartans keep their record clean
Published 1:52 pm Monday, October 4, 2010
Sumner High’s girls weathered a severe South Puget Sound League 2A soccer storm last week to improve to 6-0 in league action.
This mostly junior and sophomore group of Spartans wound up trimming Fife in a shootout and handed 4-1 Steilacoom High its initial setback of the season, blanking the Sentinels 2-0 Thursday at Sunset Chev Stadium.
In the SPSL 2A there are no ties, so when Sumner’s Sarah Carter knotted the tally at one apiece with a penalty kick moments before the buzzer signaled the end of regulation play, the contest evolved into a shootout.
The Spartans’ Makinzie Endicott rocketed one past the Trojan netminder, but Fife answered to tie it up. The shootout was short-lived, as Carter and Kaylie Rozell both struck gold on their shootout attempts and SHS goalkeeper Alex Hoyt allowed nothing more from Fife.
Hoyt’s net-minding skills came into play two days later when the Spartans slammed the door on a competitive Steilacoom squad.
Midfielder Megan Fenton legged one between the Steilacoom pipes in the 30th minute. For the next half hour the game was played in the middle of the Sunset Stadium turf, but Rozell took over with a shot into the unoccupied left side of the Steilacoom goal.
“Alex was particularly impressive in the game’s waning minutes when Steilacoom was desperately assaulting our net,” coach Robi Turley said. “She has come a long way in a very short time, as has the rest of this young team. This entire squad has really matured and gelled as a unit very quickly.”
