Cougars win away against Trojans

Thursday, October 16, 2008. Gaithersburg High School

The Cougars improved their record this evening to 8-2 after defeating the Trojans at Gaithersburg High School, by the score of 2-0. The game looked to be played at a frenetic pace as the 1st minute of play found Quince Orchard deep in Gaithersburg's end of the field with a cracking shot by Leah that went just wide of the net. The next 33 minutes came at a much slower pace with QO pushing forward into the Trojan half of the field more often than not. The Cougars stuck to their plan of taking many shots on net and waiting for the right opportunity to present itself for them to score. And present itself it did in the 34th minute. Gaithersburg had a free kick and the player sent the ball deep into the Cougar defense where junior Emily D'Italia headed the ball out of the back to Sophomore Shannon Dwyer, who passed the ball forward to Junior Yvonne Latour who put the ball into the back of the Gaithersburg net to put QO up 1-0.

The second half opened much like the first half with good penetration and shot taking by the Cougars. Gaithersburg's goalkeeper was up to the task, or tasks! We did not have to wait to as long this half for QO to find the back of Gaithersburg's net, as in the 24th minute Junior Kayla Clarke sent a corner kick into the box, and Senior Lane Kurkjian's header sailed past the Trojan's keeper to put QO up 2-0.

Late in the 2nd half Coach Keiller made quite a few substitutions allowing some of the reserve players to get some time and touches on the ball. We even saw some forwards back in midfield and central defenders up in the midfield. Freshman Gabby Paolini even made an appearance in goal and touched the ball about as often ans Senior Keeper Amanda Whitney did. Which is to say, not much at all, which is what we like.


Go Cougars!