A.S.P.N on The Hill

The Hill – Last time that Patrick County and Carroll County had a Soccer ⚽️ Night, Mother Nature was the biggest obstacle as both Varsity matches were interrupted by lightning 🌩 storms.

Monday night, the Cougars dealt with another type of challenge as our Cavaliers teams played smothering defense across the combined 280 minutes of action 🎬.

Alexis Sheffey received plenty of backline defense support as the Adrienne Harris McGuire led Varsity team pitched a 3-0 shutout against the visiting Cougars.

Sheffey, a senior captain , has collected shutouts over her career that number into double figures, but this one came against a team with one of the most explosive players in the Three Rivers District, Kyra Titular. The defense backfield did a tremendous job preventing angles, and anytime that a ball made it past them, Sheffey was up to the challenge.

Offensively, McGuire saw a shift in production between Savannah ” The Artist 🎨 ” Swecker and Callie ” Half Pint” Harris. The duo combined for two of the three Lady Cavalier goals, with the difference being it was Swecker that put the biscuit in the basket 🧺 for the home team.

At 33:59 of the first half, Swecker corralled an offering from Harris to give CCHS a 1-0 lead. After losing a second goal to an offsides call at the 30:00 minute mark, Alisia Torres Lopez found the back of the net at 22:25.

Minutes later, Harris dinged the cross bar with a shot, but the Lady Cougars dodged that bullet, and the game went into the break at 2-0.

29:10 remained in the contest when Harris once again found a streaking Swecker to push the lead out to 3-0. The duo flirted with adding to the score sheet the rest of the way, but Patrick County held them at bay.

The victory was a solid bounce back victory after two late goals by James River allowed the Knights to escape with a 2-0 victory in Buchanan.

The team returns to action 🎬 on Wednesday evening when Galax comes to The Hill.

Coach McGuire checked ✔️ in with her thoughts on her teams latest victory :

Goal #1 – Savannah Swecker
Assist Callie Harris

Goal #2 – Alisia Torres Lopez
Assist – Yeili Urbina

Goal #3 – Savannah Swecker
Assist Callie Harris

Another awesome night for the girls!! The girls came out strong and scored in the first 7 minutes of the game with a goal from Savannah Swecker and an assist from Callie Harris. We continued with the offensive momentum, putting shots on goal and hitting the crossbar 3 times in the first half. Then, we finally found the back of the net again after many close attempts. It was a goal from Alisia Torres Lopez from a beautiful assist from Yeili Urbina to make it 2-0.

In the second half, Callie found Savannah again for her 2nd goal of the night to make it 3-0. Our offense and midfield had a great night of moving the ball around to create opportunities on goal. We had a lot of different players get playing time in the midfield and up top tonight.
Our defense had a huge night!! In Patrick’s 11 games this season, this was only the second game they have been held to 0 goals. The only other team this season to hold them to 0 goals was Christiansburg.

Our defense did an awesome job stepping up to the plate tonight because Patrick has a very strong forward that has been scoring a lot this season. Our defense did a great job of shutting her down and not giving her many opportunities. Melissa Mize stepped up for us and played center back due to having to move Genesis Harmon to a fullback position tonight due to an illness. Genesis also did a great job of stepping up for us as a fullback for the night, along with marking Patrick’s best player. Aliza Hardy and Jackie Arellano-Torres had a great night on the backline for us as well.

All 4 of our defenders had a very solid night of defense. They shut down an offense that has been pretty successful all season with putting the ball in the back of the net. The few chances Patrick had our goalie Alexis Sheffey stepped right up and took care of them. Alexis finished the night with 6 saves. Overall, it was a great night for the Lady Cavs!!

Meanwhile, over on the Southside of Stuart, both Forrest Johnson and Jeremy Puckett found success against their hosts.

Jv won 3-0 with a hat trick by Joni Rosales. And 2 assists by Christian Solis-Ruiz.

Hat 👒 Trick by Rosales, doesn’t that sound familiar ??? Young Man 👨 is on Fire 🔥!

Varsity won 3-2.
Hector Castro with 2 goals and Hez Mejia with 1 goal.

Three victories by a combined score of 9-2 gives plenty of reasons for the Cavalier faithful to leave the schools feeling good about the night.

Brittany Kinney and her JV squad also played some stifling defense in limiting their counterparts to just two goals over their 60 minutes of action. The teams went to the break tied nil – nil, and the score remained that way until 25:18 remained in the second half when the Lady Cougars scored the first of their two goals.