LVS tops Hockaday

The Lady Vikings Soccer Program gets 2 wins on the evening starting with 2-1 JV win with a goal by Koryn Brookshire and the game-winner by Lauren Bettinger.  The win tonight moves the Lady Vikings to 2-1-1 overall on the season.

The JV will be in action next against Grapevine and Southlake Carroll on January 2nd at Dragon Stadium in Southlake for a couple friendly matches to get the year started.

The varsity team rebounded from a loss earlier in the week by topping Hockaday by a score of 3-0.

The first half ended in a scoreless battle between the 2 teams until the Lady Vikings came on strong in the second half.

Mikaela Gamboa started off the scoring in the 46th minute of play.  A well timed pass in behind from Hannah Allred put Gamboa in front of the 18, only to knock it around the goalkeeper giving her a simple tap in for the evenings first goal.  That turned out to be the only goal the Lady Vikings would need.  Head coach, Jay Fitzgerald said, "We got much sharper as the game went on and scoring early in the second half was key."

Meghan Kittleson scored her first goal of the year of a cross from Gamboa less then 10 minutes later and that was a lead that the Lady Vikings would not surrender.  Instead, Regan Hafer added the third and final goal of the match just 3 minutes after that.  Kate Kleiser collected a mis-cleared ball for the assist.

Sophomore, goalkeeper, Sarah Becan came up with some much needed saves in the first half of play and cleaned up the box in the second half to preserve the shutout moving the Lady Vikings to 6-2-0 on the season.

"Hockaday is a solid team and I am happy about the result especially going into final exams next week... much easier to study when you are coming off a win," commented Fitzgerald.