Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Road trip complete; Bettinger gets the trick

Six games into the season, Nolan Catholic has been on the road for the last 5 matches returning home next week.  LVS improves to 5-1 on the season with a 5-1 win over TCA tonight with Megan Bettinger scoring her second hat trick in just 6 games.

The Lady Vikings took a 2-0 lead before the Lady Trojans got one back before half. Bettinger started the first half scoring and just 2 minutes after, Emily Keoughan scored what would turn out to be the game winner.

In the second half of play, the Lady Vikings spoiled the evening for TCA scoring 3 unanswered goals; 2 more came Bettinger's way and the final goal was credited to Hannah Allred.

"We scored some quality goals tonight and created several others, " said LVS head coach, Jay Fitzgerald.

The TCA goalkeeper pushed away 19 of the Lady Vikings 24 shots on goal. FItzgerald continued, "We were patient, attacked in waves, and kept the ball nicely."

Brennan Flynn, Bettinger, Keoughan, and Allred were all credited with assists on the night.

The Lady Vikings return home next week with a pair of games starting on Tuesday night as they host district rival, Ursuline. The JV gets the night started at 6pm with the varsity at 7:45pm. T

Thursday night Hockaday comes to town for a 6pm and 7:45pm kick-off
as well.

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