Friday Night Lights; Underclassmen roll

The Lady Vikings improve to 3-2-0 in district play with a 9-0 win over Parish Episcopal on Friday night.  The usual suspects were on tap on the evening with seniors Megan Bettinger, Meghan Kittleson (3 assists), and Mikaela Gamboa accounting for 5 of the 9 goals.  Bettinger and Gamboa each scored 2 goals.  Bettinger commented about the team, "We got a shutout and our 3 points and have really worked on our structure and shape as a team going into Prestonwood.  I am really proud of us going into next week and the rest of the season."

Of the 6 goals, underclassmen had a part with freshman, Abby Geiser leading the way for the Lady Vikings with a hat trick on top of 2 assists.  Sophomore, Rachel Firestone scored her first career high school goal on the evening as well.  Maggie Tepera added a goal and assist.

"We have to make up for 50 goals we lost year to graduation and the leadership from our seniors and juniors are making its way down to our younger players and with 26 goals in 5 games is a start.  There are a lot of good things we have taken from our first 5 games and we are much farther ahead then we were at this time last year," commented LVS head coach, Jay Fitzgerald.

The Lady Vikings continue district play next week on the road on Tuesday at Prestonwood.  The very next day the JV and Varsity travel to Hockaday for a 5:00pm kick-off, both teams play at the same time.  Then on Friday, there will be a JV doubleheader as the Lady Vikings host Greenhill at 5:30pm with the boys following at 7:00pm.

- Match Report -

Match: Nolan Catholic Lady Vikings vs Parish Episcopal Panthers
Date: Dec. 1, 2017
Competition: TAPPS 1-6A District Match
Venue: Doskocil Stadium
Kickoff: 6:00pm CT
Weather: 65 degrees

Scoring Summary:    1      2      F
LVS                           6      3      9
PES                           0      0      0

LVS: Megan Bettinger 3' (UA)
LVS: Abby Geiser 10' (Maggie Tepera)
LVS: Mikaela Gamboa 20' (Meghan Kittleson)
LVS: Abby Geiser 25' (UA)
LVS: Megan Bettinger 27' (Meghan Kittleson)
LVS: Abby Geiser 32' (Meghan Kittleson)
LVS: Rachel Firestone 42' (UA)
LVS: Maggie Tepera 51' (Abby Geiser)
LVS: Mikaela Gamboa 68' (Geiser)