Lady Vikings improve in district; Lynch on Thursday

The Nolan Catholic women's soccer team improved to 5-0-0 on the season with tonights 4-0 shutout on the road against Liberty Christian.  Jordan Gamboa started the scoring off after Gwennie Puente was brought down in the box by the goalkeeper.  Gamboa followed up the lose ball and put the Lady Vikings on the board in the 2nd minute of play.

The buildup play continued as Lady Vikings goalkeeper, Piper Head started the attack with an early ball out to Emily Keoughan who connected in the midfield and then through to Gabbie Puente down the left side who sent an early ball to her sister, Gwennie who deposited it in the top corner to double the Lady Viking lead.

Just before half, Gwennie Puente took another ball from Gabbie and smashed it near post for a 3-0 lead just before halftime.

Throughout the 1st half, senior GK, Piper Head came up with a couple saves to keep the clean sheet and that continued through the second half and the end of the game for her 5th shutout of the season.

Jordan Gamboa, Marissa Baldasti, Emily Keoughan, and Megan Bettinger all had quality opportunities in the 2nd half and kept the pressure on the Lady Warrior back line and just couldn't get one in until the end of the half when Gamboa scored her second goal of the game and of the season off a cross from Sarah Brown.

Associate Head Coach, Todd Fitzgerald said, "When you keep pressing and attacking good things happen, we won both halves and we didn't have our best stuff but those goals were fun to watch."

The Lady Vikings return home just for the 2nd time this season as they host Bishop Lynch on Thursday night.  The JV kick-off at 5:30pm and the varsity follow at 7:15pm.