Work continues for area teams

Plenty of competitive conference races in Suburban One League

As shocking as it sounds, there’s roughly a month left in the high school soccer regular season.

Teams are starting to approach the midway point of their respective league schedules and there are a handful of highlight fixtures coming in the next 10 days. As soccer goes however, there are still plenty of sides looking to stamp down their identity or put the puzzle pieces in the right places.

A handful of area teams have established themselves as early league title contenders, but there’s still a lot of matches left to be played.

“What people may not see or remember is, it’s the same players but there’s a different mental outlook on the season,” Pennridge girls soccer coach Audrey Anderson said after Monday’s 1-0 win over Souderton. “People want different things, they have different goals, they’re going different places. It takes a little bit of time for everybody to buy in to what we want to accomplish.”

The Rams, part of the loaded Suburban One League Continental Conference, sit just a point up on Souderton going into Thursday’s road match at Central Bucks East. Any coach in the Continental will say, but there’s no such thing as an easy fixture on that schedule.

Souderton is a good example of where a lot of squads sit at this point of the season. At 2-12, the Indians have played relatively strong soccer but they’ve left some points on the pitch and still haven’t decided if they’re deploying their players in the right formation. First-year varsity head coach Lindsy Jones, formerly the JV head coach, has plenty of talent and like many coaches, finds herself still in the evaluation

DEBBY HIGH — FOR DIGITAL FIRST MEDIA Souderton’s Grace Kelley moves fast as Pennridge’s Holly Harbeck has her eye on the ball during their game Monday.