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Seniors help SHS girls soccer shut out Coeur d'Alene, 3-0

Bonner County Daily Bee | UPDATED 5 years, 4 months AGO
| August 28, 2019 1:00 AM

By KYLE CAJERO

Sports Editor

COEUR d’ALENE — Led by goals from seniors Holly Kassa, Hannah Eddy and Emi Lynch, the Sandpoint girls soccer team shut out 5A Coeur d’Alene 3-0 on the road on Tuesday afternoon.

“Our senior leadership stepping up to get results was a positive,” Sandpoint head coach Conor Baranski said. “Our attack was okay at times. A lot of times it was disjointed, but with scoring three goals a game, we were obviously you’re doing something right. It got better in the second half, but we’re still gelling as a team.”

Holly Kassa opened up the scoring moments after she was subbed into the game in the 28th minute off of a cross from fellow senior Emi Lynch.

Later, Hannah Eddy added to the scoring after Kylie Williams pressured Coeur d’Alene’s goalkeeper Lily Foster. Foster managed to block Williams’ first shot, but Eddy was in the right place at the right time to chip the ball over Foster’s head as she tried to recover.

Sitting with a 2-0 lead in the first half, Sandpoint’s defense held firm when the Vikings tried mounting a comeback.

“They did quite well to get the shutout —both the defenders and Hattie [Larson],” Baranski said. “Hattie didn’t have a ton to do, but other than that, she did really well to command her area,” Baranski said. “I thought she was doing well communicating with her defenders.”

In the waning moments of the game, Lynch put the finishing touches on the game with a sequence that Baranski said “encapsulated who she was as a player.”

Lynch nearly lost control of the ball in the box, regained composure, dribbled from a tight angle into the far upper corner of the net to put the finishing touches on the game.

“The first half was a struggle for us,” Vikings head coach Andy Vredenburg said to the Coeur d’Alene Press. “Hats off to (Sandpoint coach) Conor (Baranski), they played a formation that we weren’t expecting to see and played an extra player in the midfield. It took us a while to figure out how to defend it. I was happy with how we played in the second half, but just couldn’t get it in the back of the net.”

While Baranski admitted the communication and fitness shown in the team thus far wasn’t quite at the level he had hoped for, the Bulldogs have until next Tuesday’s game at Post Falls to get some more work together under its collective belt.

Sandpoint (2-0) travels to Post Falls next Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.

First half — 1, Spt, Holly Kassa (Emi Lynch), 28:00. Second half — 2, Spt, Hannah Eddy (Kylie Williams), 58:00. 3, Spt, Emi Lynch (Erin Eddy), 79:00.

Shots on goal — Spt 11, Cd’A 3.

Saves — Spt, Hattie Larson, 3; Cd’A, Lily Foster, 2.

Mark Nelke of the Coeur d’Alene Press contributed to this report

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