Soccer: LFO, Heritage girls off to solid starts
The LFO Lady Warriors picked up their first win of the season with an 8-1 home victory over Trion in a non-region match last Tuesday.
Sydnee Brown and Chelsey Lindsay each had a hat trick for the Red-and-White, while Sydney Moss and Alyssa Leverrett each had solo goals. Michelle Dunn and Deandra Rowe led the way for a strong Lady Warriors’ defensive effort.
LFO girls 5, Coahulla Creek 1
Thursday night at Lakeshore Park in Dalton, the Lady Warriors led 2-1 at halftime before pouring it on in the second half to move to 2-1 overall and 1-0 in Region 6-AAA play.
Brown recorded her second hat trick of the week, while Leverrett and Hannah Elleman each scored once. Keeper Rebecca Leggett had 10 saves in net, including stops on two consecutive penalty kicks.
Trion boys 5, LFO 0
No further details were provided as of press time
Coahulla Creek boys 7, LFO 0
No further details were provided as of press time. The Warriors are now 0-3 overall and 0-1 in region play.
Heritage girls 4, Rome 2
The Lady Generals picked their initial win of the 2018 season last Tuesday by doubling up the Lady Wolves in Rome.
Anna Boley had a pair of goals and one assist for the Navy-andRed, while Brianna Smotherman and Caylee Carpenter each had a goal and an assist.
Heritage girls 6, Gilmer 0
The Lady Generals got two goals from Smotherman and Austin Brookshire and one goal each from Boley and Carpenter in the road win in Ellijay.
Smotherman also assisted on three goals. Carpenter had two assists and Boley recorded one as Heritage moved to 2-0-1 overall and 1-0 in Region 6-AAAA play.
Gilmer boys 2, Heritage 2
In the nightcap, the Generals got two goals from Denis Viars and an assist from Eli Darger in regulation. However, the Bobcats won the penalty kick shootout, 5-4, to collect the region win.
The Generals dropped to 0-2 overall and 0-1 in region play.
Southeast Whitfield girls 8, Ridgeland 1
In Rossville last Tuesday, the Lady Panthers (0-2) took a 1-0 lead on a Katie Carruth goal in the eighth minute of the match. However, the visiting Lady Raiders would score twice in the first half to take the lead at intermission.
Southeast would tack on two goals in the first nine minutes of the second half and poured it on the rest of the way to score the Region 6-AAAA victory.
Riley McBee stopped 17 shots for Ridgeland, while Courtney Durham had two shots on goal.
Southeast Whitfield boys 4, Ridgeland 0
The Raiders (20-1, 1-0) would score three minutes into the contest and again before the end of the half. Southeast, the defending Class 4A state champions, would tack on a goal midway through the second half and added their fourth in the final minute of play.
“We fought really well for 80 minutes,” Panthers head coach Tim Sparks said. “(Southeast) controlled the bulk of the game with possession and outshot us by a large margin, but we were organized and even created a handful of legitimate scoring chances. They are once again a great team and we have a lot of work to do.”
Ridgeland fell to 1-1 overall and 0-1 in Region 6-AAAA play.
LaFayette-Trion postponed
LaFayette’s home matches against Trion, scheduled for this past Thursday, were postponed due to wet field conditions.
The matches will be made up on April 10 back at LaFayette.