Many different opponents would need to be faced before the Cicero-North Syracuse and Liverpool girls soccer teams met again.
Following up on its 4-1 win over the Warriors on Oct. 8, the Northstars handled Auburn two days later and then, up against West Genesee last Monday afternoon, slowed down in the course of a 0-0 draw.
All through regulation and overtime, C-NS probed and attacked, ultimately taking 14 shots, each of them stopped by Wildcats goalie Cameron Rosenthal.
By contrast, C-NS had far less defense to play, but managed to answer any time WG tried to pull in front as Avery Byrnes recorded seven saves.
Now the Northstars would challenge Baldwinsville on Thursday night, and while it put up a solid effort, C-NS, like many previous opponents of the Bees, was done in by the scoring prowess of Hannah Mimas.
Things were scoreless for nearly half an hour before Mimas, in the 30th minute, powered a shot past Byrnes. And it stayed 1-0 as C-NS got its fair share of opportunities to pull even.
Try as it could, though, the Northstars were denied, all eight shots turned back by Jenna Boutilier, and Mimas returned in the 54th minute to net an insurance goal.
As for Liverpool, it tried to break its four-game skid against East Syracuse Minoa last Monday afternoon but met with more late frustration in a 1-0 overtime defeat to the Spartans.
This was a back-and-forth contest in terms of opportunities. Each side could not convert in the 80 minutes of regulation, nor in the first of two 10-minute OT periods.
Maggie Tifft had nine saves, as did ESM counterpart Isabelle Chavoustie, but in the second OT one more Spartans attack proved successful, Jenna Hudgins taking a pass from Abby Hudgins and edging the ball past Tifft.
This effort looked better in retrospect because ESM would stun Fayetteville-Manlius 1-0 a couple of days later.
In the meantime, Liverpool would again find itself kept off the board last Friday night during a 2-0 defeat to the West Genesee Wildcats.
The Warriors took six shots, all stopped by WG’s Cameron Rosenthal. On the other end, Tifft had 11 saves, but the Wildcats’ Sarah Petrus netted one goal and assisted on the other, by Marlee Pontello.
