CENTRAL NEW YORK – Determined to climb backto the top of the area Class A ranks, the Jamesville-DeWitt girls soccer team is putting up some encouraging early efforts.
The Red Rams’ season began Sept. 3 against Liverpool, who went to the Section III Class AA final a season ago, and this match ended in a 1-1 draw.
Neither team scored in the first half and then exchanged goals after intermission, with Brooke Bort scoring for the Red Rams and Grace Muller converting for the Warriors.
Then neither side could win it in 20 minutes of a new overtime format where a “golden goal” would end it. Lindsay Parker made eight saves for J-D.
Then J-D made it to the win column last Tuesday, pummeling Auburn 8-0 with a diverse, deep attack that featured seven different goal-scorers.
Only Bort converted twice, with Harmony Russell getting a goal and two assists. Megan Baker, Amber Bates, Katie Callahan, Paige Kinahan and Meghan Kenna had one goal apiece.
In the weekend Hall of Fame Tournament, J-D beat Rochester Mercy 2-0 with goals from Baker and Bort. Then it lost, 7-2, to Long Island power Garden City, though Baker and Kinahan came up with goals.
Christian Brothers Academy opened its season last Tuesday against Homer, taking a 1-0 defeat to the Trojans when Cammy Cole scored in the 54th minute off a long pass from goalie Catherine Apker.
Not only that, but Apker stopped all 13 of the Brothers’ shots she faced. CBA goalie Kate Radford had four saves.
Reaching the win column on Friday night, in the opening round of DeRuyter’s tournament CBA earned its own shutout, blanking Sackets Harbor 6-0.
Bishop Grimes lost, 2-0, to General Brown on Sept. 2 in its season opener. Under assault most of the way, Olivia Bitz recorded 17 saves, only allowing goals to Ainsley Fuller and Kori Nichols.
A 2-1 defeat to Fabius-Pompey followed in the OHSL Patriot division opener. Angelina Delledera scored off a feed from Olivia Garland and Bitz had 20 saves, only to see the Falcons pull it out thanks to Maddy Haaf assisting on goals by Carlena Wallace and Payton Taylor.
Meanwhile, Manlius Pebble Hill opened with its own 2-1 loss, to Altmar-Parish-Williamstown. Abby Hinshaw’s goal was not enough as Mira Fadda-Conrey recorded 14 saves yet could not stop a pair of Katie Schick goals for the Blue Devils.
When Grimes met APW on Thursday afternoon, the Cobras lost 3-2. Loyi Mugushu converted twice and Bitz had 17 saves, but the Rebels won with two goals from Bella Scott and one goal from Emma Millerschin.
That same day, MPH tied Faith Heritage 3-3, unable to hold on to a 2-1 halftime advantage, though Emily Fadda-Conrey notched a pair of goals and Maggie Stokes-Rees also scored, Hinshaw earning an assist.
