WINGATE — Rachel Veneziano only needed to stop one shot in posting the shutout, and three different Lady Eagles found the net as Bald Eagle Area notched its first win of the year, 3-0, over visiting Tyrone in Centre County girls’ soccer action Sept. 17.
“The girls looked great,’ said BEA coach Jared Moore. ‘They dominated possession and worked the ball well. The goals looked great and the hustle was phenomenal.
‘This was a great first win after a few tough losses. This is just what we needed to jump start the season.’
Bald Eagle Area entered the match with an 0-2-2 mark, while Tyrone was responsible for pinning Mountain League leader Penns Valley with its only setback of the young campaign.
However, Addison Proctor scored 15:05 into the contest to provide the Lady Eagles with, as it turned out, the only goal they needed.
Bald Eagle Area outshot the visitors 13-1.
“The defense was lights out,” Moore said.
Allison’s Cowan scored unassisted at 61:03 for insurance for the Lady Eagles. Zoey McHenry scored at 73:52 — the assist going to Grace Holderman — to set the final.
Bald Eagle nearly had gotten into the win column the previous match against perennial league and district power Central before falling by a 2-1 count Sept. 13. Proctor’s goal at 29:56 had evened the contest at a goal apiece, but Central’s Averey Black responded with the game-winner for the Lady Dragons.
Falen McHenry assisted on Proctor’s goal, while Veneziano stopped three shots. Ashley Negley accounted for Central’s first goal.
STATE COLLEGE
The reigning District 6 Class 4A champion Lady Little Lions split a pair of contests at the Altoona Lady Lion Shootout on Sept. 15 and picked up a Mid Penn Conference victory over Cedar Cliff on Sept. 13.
State College also dropped a 3-2 verdict at Central Dauphin on Sept. 18, making the Lady Little Lions 4-3-1.
Erica Feese netted an unassisted hat trick, as State College amassed a commanding 27-2 shots-on-goal advantage in a 10-0 rout of Juniata in Altoona. Makenzie Graham added a goal and an assist for the Lady Little Lions.
State scored five goals in each half. Jessica Lingenfelter opened the scoring unassisted seven minutes into the contest, and Madison Edwards added to the Lady Little Lions’ lead a minute later off Graham’s feed.
Tori Steward, Megan Stotzfus, Kara Bates and Loren Tobic also recorded goals for State College, while Savannah Schoonmaker, Josie Garrigan, Jordan Fralick and Olivia Noel had assists.
State College was unable to hold on to a 3-2 halftime advantage in the opening match against East Juniata, falling 4-3 on the strength of Thea Niemond’s goals at 45:00 and 49:00.
Steward scored off a Natalie Stewart pass 16 minutes in to tie the match at 1-1, then put State College ahead nine minutes later by driving home an Abby Edelman assist. One minute after East Juniata drew even at 38:00 on Kierstyn Fogle tally, Graham found Edelman, who found the net to give the Lady Little Lions the lead once again going into the half.
Hailey Swartz scored the match-opening goal, one minute in.
Graham scored three goals, and Feese registered a goal and an assist in State College’s 6-0 victory at Cedar Cliff on Sept. 13.
Feese got things going with an unassisted marker 15 minutes in, then assisted on Graham’s goal a minute later. Graham sandwiched a pair of tallies around another Feese goal early in the second half as the Lady Little Lions pulled away.
Torbic scored State’s final goal. Schoonmaker and Lingenfelter had assists for the Lady Little Lions, who outshot the hosts 22-9.
Graham’s second-half penalty kick got the Lady Little Lions within a goal of Central Dauphin, but they never could get the equalizer.
Graham also scored State’s other goal unassisted at the 22-minute mark to tie the match at 2 before Central Dauphin got goals from Taylor Luckenbill (53:00) and Mikayla Mustard (56:00) to put some space between itself and the Lady Little Lions.
“We lost a close game against a strong team,” State College coach Doug Bates said. “I felt that we had our changes, in fact, more than them. They simply did a better job of capitalizing.’
Luckenbill opened the scoring with a goal seven minutes in.
Central Dauphin was a 2-0 winner in the junior varsity match.
BELLEFONTE
Bellefonte split a pair of matches, dispatching visiting Tyrone, 4-1, Sept. 13, but dropping a 2-1 decision at Clearfield on Sept. 17 to check in with a 3-4 season mark.
Mallorie Smith continued her scoring tear for the Lady Raiders with three goals and an assists in the Tyrone match. Mia Johnson netted Bellefonte’s other goal and assisted on two of Smith’s tallies.
Bellefonte jumped out to a 3-0 lead and never looked back.
Tara Woomer also got an assist for Bellefonte. Cati Besch turned away seven of the eight Tyrone shots she faced.
Aaryanna Wright accounted for Tyrone’s only goal.
Maddie Morelli’s goal at 48:47 tied the Clearfield match at a goal apiece, before Alayna Ryan headed home the eventual game-winner a little under seven minutes later to lift the Lady Bison to the Mountain League win.
Smith assisted on Morelli’s goal. Besch had five saves.
Emma Hipps opened the scoring unassisted at 31:47.
PENNS VALLEY
Hannah Montminy registered a hat trick in the first 19:50 of the match to power Penns Valley to a 4-2 victory at Huntingdon on Sept. 13. Montminy’s goals at 15:10 and 15:40 were unassisted. Katie Martell passed to Montminy for a score that made it 4-0 Penns Valley at 19:50.
Hannah Denger got the Lady Rams (3-1) on the board at 9:31, converting an Emma Narber pass.
Kylie Auman stopped four shots for Penns Valley, which prevailed despite being outshot 11-10.
Amanda Gwinn and Jacee Deline were responsible for Huntingdon’s goals.
PHILIPSBURG-OSCEOLA
Philipsburg-Osceola dipped to 0-3, dropping matches to Clearfield and Moshannon Valley. Jocelyn Hunter recorded 18 saves for the Lady Mounties in a 7-1 loss to Clearfield on Sept. 13.
Schenley Farrell and Riley Yurky notched goals in P-O’s 6-2 defeat at the hands of visiting Moshannon Valley on Sept. 15.
GRACE PREP
Emma Will’s second goal of the contest off Abigael Fisher’s second assist gave Grace Prep a 2-2 tie with DuBois Christian on Sept. 13, one of a pair of draws the Storm played in the last week.
Makayla Ley made 16 saves against DuBois Christian for Grace Prep, which was outshot 21-11.
DuBois Christian took a 1-0 lead on Rorrie Maynard’s unassisted goal in the first half and, after Will evened things up later that half, regained the advantage on Colesy Brownlee’s second-half tally.
A pair of Fisher goals and Amaryah Haushalter’s first career goal gave Grace Prep and 3-1 halftime lead on Sunbury Christian on Sept. 18, but the Storm couldn’t hang on. Marissa Spangler’s second and third goals of the contest tied it, and the match ended, 3-3.
All three Grace Prep goals were unassisted. The Storm outshot Sunbury Christian 17-6. Ley had three saves.
The Storm are 1-2-2.
