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The girls soccer team scores two first-half goals
Thursday en route to a 3-0 home win |
By B. Scott Anderson, Newberg
Graphic sports editor
E-mail Scott at banderson@eaglenewspapers.com
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Freshman Ariel Snyder scored two
goals in the first half and sophomore Kym Witmer added an insurance
goal in the second half to give the Newberg High School girls soccer
team a 3-0 home win Thursday over Canby.
The
Tigers (2-3, 1-0 Pacific Conference) got on the board in the ninth
minute when Snyder’s shot from the right found the net in the upper
left hand corner of the goal. Snyder gave the Tigers a 2-0 lead in
the 26th minute when she dribbled into the middle of the Canby
defense and poked a shot past the goalkeeper that slowly dribbled
across goal line for the score.
Up 2-0 at half, Witmer’s shot in the 61st minute bounced off the
right post and into the net for Newberg’s third goal of the game.
“That’s what we were looking for — that third goal,” Newberg coach
Nick Chapman said.
Sarah Wolfer added a pair of assists for the Tigers in a win where
Newberg seemed a step quicker to the ball throughout the game.
“The girls played well and did what they needed to do to get the
win,” Chapman said. “That’s all there was to it, really.”
Newberg came into the game off Tuesday’s 1-0 home win over Sandy
off a first-half goal by Snyder off an assist by Alysha Beck.
“The girls played all right,” Chapman said. “It should have been
more, but it’s all right. It’s a win.”
The victory over Canby was just the first step in Newberg
qualifying for the state playoffs, a fete the Tigers couldn’t
complete last year when a single point in the standings kept the
Tigers at home after its fourth-place league finish.
This season, with only six teams in the Pacific Conference,
Newberg’s odds of qualifying for the playoffs are dramatically
increased because four of the six teams in the league will qualify.
“We get four shots out of six, so you can’t really beat that,”
Chapman said. “But the good thing is that we’ll play everybody twice
and that helps.”
The Tigers return to action Tuesday with a 5 p.m. game at
McMinnville. |
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From
Sept. 23, 2006, Newberg Graphic
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