Friday, January 19, 2018

LVS continues unbeaten streak

The Lady Vikings returned for their first home district game of the new year coming away with a 3-1 win over Liberty Christian.  Freshman, Maggie Tepera also returned after being out for ac couple weeks with a concussion and scored the games first goal with a blast from outside the 18 in the top corner.  The game turned a bit sloppy throughout the first half of play even with the Lady Vikings outshooting the Warriors 7-0.

Start of the second half the game turned a bit more consistent and senior, Mikaela Gamboa added to the Lady Viking lead with a nice feed from Abby Geiser.  Gamboa found the open space in the back of the box to slot home for the eventual game winner.

The Lady Vikings continued to put the pressure on the Warriors but half way through the second half, the Warriors cut the lead in half with a goal on their first shot of the evening.

Switching off for a brief time, the Lady Vikings answered right back and Geiser and Gamboa reversed roles with the freshman doubling the lead.

"All year we have responded well to adversity and as soon as we conceded we went right at them to answer," said LVS head coach, Jay Fitzgerald.

A week of recovery saw a fresh Lady Viking team take the field Thursday night improving their record to 15-4-3.  Fitzgerald added, "Our rhythm was off a bit but to be expected after we spent the week to recover going into the second half of our district season."

Splitting home and away next week starting with Parish on the road on Monday, the Lady Vikings return home on Thursday to take on TCA.

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