In their first game back home after weekend trips to Massou Valley and Anchorage, the Lathrop women's soccer team showed confidence as a group playing in their home country with the back of road trips and lessons. Conversely, the visiting Palmer Moose lost 8-0 to the Malemutes, just a few hours away after a six-hour bus ride.
Lathrop scored right after the start, and Jordan Rowe sent the ball from the center of the penalty box to Maya Scanlon on the left side for a goal. Senior captain Madison Spencer put the Malemutes up 2-0 soon after, and Rowe nearly extended the lead from there, but the ball went just to the left of the half-empty net.
Spencer put another ball into the right pocket of the net early in the first half before Keo Ostnes scored the extra point for a 4-0 lead. Lathrop further extended its lead midway through the first half off a corner kick.
“We've been playing around with some lineups a little bit and trying to figure out what's best for a lot of the girls. We talked about tactics last night and went over it again this morning. So I thought they executed really well from the beginning. “I would say this,” Lathrop co-head coach Damon Crutcher said after the game. [the start] It was as expected. We always want to score early. ”
Scanlon scored again on a rebound after a shot was deflected by Palmer's goalie and then scored once more, the ball bouncing past the goalie to give Lathrop a 7-0 advantage before halftime. .
Lathrop removed most of his starters early in the second half. Fiona Beardsley scored Maremutes' only goal midway through the second half off an assist from freshman Erica Ward, and Lathrop finished the game with an 8-0 victory, marking its highest score of the season. Palmer (4-3-2 overall) currently has losses to West Valley and Lathrop, a combined 13-0.
The Malemute girls (currently 3-3-1 overall) will play Colony on Friday, May 3rd at 3:30 p.m., and then face Wasilla on Saturday at 10 a.m. He lost to the former and won against the latter during the match. A trip to Mat-Su two weeks ago. Crutcher feels he can go into the rematch with more confidence now that he has a full squad and more games.
“We scored quite a few goals today, but we tend to struggle shooting the ball at times,” Crutcher said. “We tend to struggle to get the ball cleanly into the attacking third, so being a little more attack-minded will be our goal.”