Lady Eagles soar. score 4-0 win
The Christian Learning girls varsity soccer team finished its season in impressive style with a 4-0 victory over Cambridge Tuesday afternoon on the Cooperative field.
The Eagles, suiting up without either of their senior center backs (one busy, the other called in sick) and having to activate a second 7th grader for the game just to have 11 players, faced a determined (but also slightly short-handed) Cambridge squad on a hot, sunny afternoon.
Christian Learning, which had won both previous meetings between the two teams, controlled the game from the start, and the Eagles took the lead early on when Mariela Salinas punched in a short shot. That ended the scoring in the first half, but not before Eagle goalie Sharon Gabler had to pounce on a loose ball in the middle of a dusty scramble to preserve the lead just before half time.
Eagle star forward Abby Philips needed some hydration and sugar at half-time, and took off a few minutes into the second half to recover sufficiently to return into the game. Apparently refreshed, she figured in all three of the Eagles' second half goals.
The second goal , another sharp rap by Salinas, came off a Phillips corner kick. Still a bit woozy, but no less lethal, Phillips had enough left to add the last two goals, once kicking the ball out from between the Cambridge goalie's feet, and then arcing a shot over the goalie a few minutes later. She came within a whisker of completing an all-in-one-half hat trick when she shanked an open-goal opportunity into the cheap seats.
(Keith Wilcke of Christian Learning provided this account.)
