Saturday, January 24, 2015

Varsity in championship; JV fights back but edged in PKs

LVS battles in 2 tournaments across town from each other with the varsity in Duncanville and the JV in Justin.  Gabbie Puente scores 2 goals yesterday afternoon to help the Lady Vikings improve to 16-4-0 over Cedar Hill.  The Lady Vikings carried a 4-1 lead into halftime of the Duncanville Kick-Off Classic semi-final and were able to hold on to advance to the championship match which will be played today at 1:00pm.  Gwennie Puente and Megan Bettinger both scored for the Lady Vikings as well.

Lady Vikings head coach, Jay Fitzgerald said, "This was an important game today as we were able to battle through some adversity and stick up for each other."

Junior, goalkeeper, Gracie Emrich saved a penalty kick in the last minute of the game to preserve the 4-2 win for the Lady Vikings.

Across town at Northwest High School in Justin, TX, the JV just missed out on advancing to the semi-finals in a shootout.  Mikaela Gamboa helped the Lady Vikings to a 1-0 win in the morning over WF Rider and then scored 3 more goals in the quarter-final.

Going up a goal in the first half, then down 2-1 at halftime, the Lady Vikings battled back to take a 3-2 lead but Keller was able to even the score before the end of regulation.  Keller prevailed in the shoot-out by a score of 4-3.  LVS shootout goals were scored by Taylor Shlemon, Abbey Button, and Koryn Brookshire.

The JV takes their 12-5-2 record into todays 12:30pm match against Byron Nelson in the 5th place match at Northwest High School Stadium.  This brand new stadium was just added to the campus last year.

They have 3 stadiums on campus: NISD Stadium where LVS played their first 2 matches, Texans Stadium which sits across the  parking lot, and NHS Stadium where LVS will play tomorrow which is located across campus.


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