Maryland Playoff Details

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Bengals fall to Cougars on Senior Night 5-0

The Cougars defeated the visiting Blake Bengals Wednesday night 5-0, a special Senior Night treat. The class of 2010 players were escorted out onto the field tonight by their families while announcer Mike Cuthbert read each player's "future plans for college and careers!" They were all very funny!

The game was one of the most beautiful games I have seen the girls play in quite a while. Blake, while clearly outmatched by their hosts, did not give up and gave their all against a superior team. The Cougars demonstrated beautiful passing and possession and were dominant from the opening whistle.

The Cougars opening goal came from a shot taken by Allie Solomon that the keeper blocked away only to have the rebound tucked away by Shannon Dwyer for the goal.

The second goal could be one of my favorite goals I have seen the team make this year. Kayla Clarke delivered a beautiful cross from the right side that gracefully arced across the goal mouth and the onrushing Shannon Dwyer deftly one-touched past the sprawling Blake keeper. 2-0 Cougars.

The Cougar's third goal came as Clarke again delivered a great ball up the right side to a running Kelsey O'Conner who dragged a cross on the ground in front of the Blake keeper and onto the foot of Leah Prentice who also one-touched the ball into the back of the net, 3-0.

In the second half the scoring continued when Shannon Dwyer crossed the ball to Leah Prentice, who scored her second goal of the game from a close range shot.

Leah completed her hat trick when she received the ball yet again from Dwyer, and she settled the ball and blasted a left footed long range shot into the upper corner of the Blake goal. A great shot that had to be seen to truly appreciate! Beautiful!

Well done girls a great cap off to a wonderful senior night celebration.

The Cougar's next game is away at Northwest High School Tuesday night at 7:00.


Go Cougars!

Cougars defeat Patriots 2-0

In what was billed to be the hardest of the remaining regular season games, the Cougars took Wootton close to the end of the game scoreless and then scored twice within 8 minutes to seal the victory 2-0. The two teams were very evenly matched and play was well distributed between them. The midfields dominated play on both teams with strong performances from both defenses as well. But in the end it was the offense of QO who prevailed. QO's first tally came from a strong move up the center of the field by Emily D'Italia. Em slotted the ball to Kayla Clarke and Kayla buried the ball into the back of the Patriot's net. Eight minutes later, Allie Solomon and Sami Slonim combined to score the Cougar's second goal of the evening. Allie passed the ball into the 6 yard box and after a few pinball bounces, Sami Slonim shot the ball past the Patriot keeper for the insurance goal.

I overhead Coach Keiller in a post-game interview make some great quotes, which I will share with you. "A gutsy performance." "We were able to correct some things we have been working on." And finally, regarding playing without injured forward Ele Margelos, "It was tough playing without Ele, first time in 4 years we've had to do that."

QO's next game is Wednesday night at home 7pm against Blake High School. It is QO Senior night.

COUGARS!

New Photos: Einstein, SV, Damascus

More great photos of our Cougars in action!

Cougars defeat Titans 4-0

Quince Orchard defeated Einstein tonight by the score of 4-0. The first Cougar goal came in the 7th minute when Shannon Dwyer threw the ball in to Emily D'Italia who slid a great pass through the Titan defense to the feet of Leah Prentice who sent her left footed shot past the sprawling Einstein keeper. Goal number 2 came in the 30th minute when Allie Solomin fed Sami Slonim who slotted the ball across the goal mouth and into the net just inside the far post. The score at the half was 2-0. The second half opened with Leah Prentice feeding the ball to Yvonne Latour who shoots and scores the first of her two goals. Latour's second goal came from a pass from Shannon Dwyer. Yvonne dribbled past the Titan defense and scored in the 14th minute. The entire squad received some quality play time allowing coach Keiller to rest some players and give some extra recuperation time to some injured players. The goal keeper duo of Gabby Paolini and Kelsey O'Conner (celebrating her 16th birthday!) combined to give the Cougar's their 6th consecutive shutout. In the Cougar's last 6 games we have out scored our opponents 28-0. Well done ladies!

The Cougar's next game is Monday night the 19th at 7 p.m. home in the Cougar Dome.

QO clinches Division title with 2-0 win over Damascus.

The Cougars waited until late in the game to score their first goal. In the 27th minute of the 2nd half Emily D'Italia sent a nicely weighted pass through to Sami Slonim who took a few touches and calmly put the ball past the Damascus keeper to put the Cougars up 1-0. Eleven minutes later in the 38th minute Yvonne Latour sent a ball through to Leah Prentice who put the Cougars comfortably in front 2-0.
The Cougars played their normal game, a little slow and groggy in the first half, but came alive in the second half to totally dominate the Hornets and control the game.
The victory clinced the Divisional Championship for the Cougars.

The Cougars next game is Tuesday the 13th, 7pm, away at Einstein HS.

New photos just posted

Once again, Ele's aunt Becky has provided the team many great photos of the BCC, Clarksburg, Poolesville, and WM games. You can view them under "Photos" in the online viewer or by going to my picasa album by pushing "George's" button. There are over 200...

Thank you Becky!!

QO takes it to Seneca Valley 9-0

The Cougars definitely put on a show of how to play the beautiful game last night scoring 9 goals in 80 minutes of play. It was obvious in the first few minutes that the Eagles were going to be no match for the mighty Cougars. The girls totally dominated the game in all offensive statistical categories. We saw a lot of composure and maturity from the Cougars who stuck to their proven possession style. Goals were scored by 5 different Cougar players: (3) from Senior Ele Margelos, (2) from Senior Leah Prentice, including a very confidently struck PK. (2) from Sophomore Allie Solomon and (1) each from Freshman Kelley Whiteis and Junior Sami Slonim.

Sophmore goal keepers Gabby Paolini and Kelsey O'Connor shared the duties between the posts and kept the limited number of shots on goal by Eagles well away from the net.

Well done Cougars!

The girl's next game is this Wednesday night, home at the Cougar Dome against the visiting squad from Damascus at 5 p.m.

QO v. Watkins Mill

The Quince Orchard girls continued their winning ways with a 4-0 win over Watkins Mill on Thursday at the Cougar Dome. Ele Margelos opened the scoring in the 17th minute when she buried a rebound off Emily D'Italia's blast at goal. The Cougars added to the lead in the 39th minute, when Shannon Dwyer sent a diagonal ball over the right side of Watkins Mill's defense. Morgan Dorset made a run from the midfield to get on the end of the cross and put it away for the 2-0 lead.

The second half started off the way the first half left off, with Yvonne Latour feeding Leah Prentice off the kickoff for the score. After playing the first 65 minutes in goal, Kelsey O'Connor entered the game as a forward, and in the 78th minute, made her way to the back post on a Leah Prentice corner kick to knock in the final tally.

Sophomore goalkeepers Kelsey O'Connor and Gabby Paolini combined for the shutout, the team's fourth of the season and third consecutive.

QO defeats Watkins Mill 4-0

Sorry I was not at the game and can provide no report other than the score.

QO's next game is away at Seneca Valley HS Monday the 5th at 5pm.