Jaguars beat Eagles, extend streaks
The Cooperative varsity girls soccer team extened its unbeaten, untied, and unscored upon streaks to three games with a 4-0 victory ground out against a feisty Christain Learning team on the Cooperative field Tuesday.
Aldana Roda notched the Jaguars first goal about mid-way through the first half with a long blast into the left-hand side of the net from about 20 meters out.
Ceceilia Aponte added the Jaguars' second score when she knocked the ball into the goal on a corner kick. The Jaguars led 2-0 at the half.
Tania Landivar made it 3-0 for Cooperative when she took charge of the ball at about the midfield stripe and waggled her way through the Eagle defense to score.
The final Cooperative was scored by Giovanna Varalta when she slid, baseball- stye, into a scrum of players in front of the Christian Learning goal and impelled the ball past goalie Erica.
Cooperative had numerous other opportunities to score, but were trhwarted by a tenacious defense, intrepid goaltending, and some sloppy marksmanship. (The Jaguars were shooting high Tuesday.)
Christian Learning could get the ball into the Jaguar defensive zone from time to time, but only had two real chances to score, both by Abbie Phillips. In both cases she got past all the defenders but one, and that defender was able to prevent a clean shot.
Griffins defeat Lady Knights 4-0
The International varsity girls soccer team finally overcame a somewhat rejuvenated Cambridge team 4-0 in a game played at International Tuesday.
The score at the end of the first half was 1-0, with the goal being scored by Griffin Beatriz Nallar. This was Cambridge's strongest half this year. The Lady Knights lost their season opener to Cooperative 11-0, and then forfeited against Christian Learning.
The Griffins broke the game open in the second half with goals by Maria Victoria Gutierrez, Maria Isabel Barrenechea, and Ana Marin. International is now 2-1 and in clear possession of second place in the League. Their four goals represented their biggest output in a game so far this year.
