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Grey’s effort from about 30 yards out found its way over the outstretched arms of Christopher Dock goalkeeper Alyssa Leister with only 54 seconds left in the second half as the visiting Trojans girls soccer team earned a 2-1 non-league win over the Pioneers Tuesday afternoon.
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more, if not just as much as they were on our end. So I think the game, we easily could have won, we just needed to put it together.”
Despite the season-opening defeat, Dock coach Ray Hess was still positive about what he saw from the defending District One Class A champs.
“I thought we played well and I’m extremely happy with the way that we’re playing. So, and we can only get better,” he said. “We’re stringing some nice passes together, things like that. We got a lot of options with people, moving them front and back and all sorts of things. I got to see some of that today, even though we didn’t win.”
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Neal collected the equalizer for Christopher Dock wLWK 4:11 OHIW, WDNLQJ D SDss from Olivia Seavy and beating Stone with a strike to the near post.
“It was a perfect pass,” Neal said. “Our whole strategy is trying to play it behind their defense, because we’re running on it gives us an advantage and it’s really nice when we’re able to do that. The speed of the ball was played really nicely.”
Before Grey’s gamewinner, Dock came close to pulling ahead, but Shisler was denied by the right post. The Dock sophomore also KLW WKH IUDPH LQ WKH fiUsW KDOI after getting behind the Wissahickon defense.