District play continues; Home Opener

The Lady Vikings continue district play, Monday night, as they come home after a 3-0 loss to Ursuline in their TAPPS 1-6A district opener last Thursday evening.  Liberty Christian comes to Fort Worth marking their first district match of the season.  Kick off is set for 6:00pm at Doskocil Stadium.  The match will broadcast LIVE @NCHSmedia.

With goals given up in the first and last moments of the first half last Thursday night, the Lady Vikings could not dig themselves out of a 3-0 halftime deficit to Ursuline.  Despite solid LVS moments, Ursuline keep the clean sheet to move to 2-0-0 on the season with a 3-0 win over John Paul II earlier in the week.  LVS head coach, Jay Fitzgerald mentioned, "Ursuline is a solid team, the started strong and capitalized on key moments in the game.  We were not consistent in any phase of the game and we sure did learn a lot about ourselves."

Fitzgerald is opportunistic even though the consistency was not their.  His team were able to put good pressure on the Lady Bears and their goalkeeper had to push away some opportunities that may have changed the complexion on the game.  "Leah (Ursuline GK) came up huge, twice, and managed her box well.  We didn't start strong but when we started to get some rhythm, she answered," Fitzgerald commented.  The second half of play did not produce any goals but was end to end with some half chances here and there.

While the varsity was kicking off district play, the JV was competing in the Liberty Christian Varsity Tournament where they went 0-2-1.  Emma Hernandez and Sophie Bailey each scored in the first match against Prince of Peace.  The match ended up locked at 2 a piece.

Needing a result to control their own destiny, next up was TCA, last years TAPPS 1-6A semi-finalist.  Neither team could score a goal but a 0-0 draw was all the Lady Vikings needed to go into the final group play match controlling their destiny.

With a win, they advance to play host Liberty Christian.  Tyler Grace was the opponent and they were too much for the Lady Vikings scoring 4 first half goals to advance to the semi-finals.  LVS JV head coach, Alex Mechalske was pleased with the showing and used this event to establish roles and expectations.

The JV will travel to Ursuline this Thursday to kick off district play.  Kick off is set for 5:00pm.  The varsity will continue their home stand playing host to Parish on Wednesday at 5:00pm.