The Huntsville Lady Eagles finished the 2010 soccer season with a post season trip to the State playoff Tournament at Burns Park in North Little Rock. The Lady Eagles (8-8), a fourth seed from region 1, faced off against defending state champion, Conway St. Joseph, the first seed from region 3. St. Joseph (13-6) topped the Lady Eagles by the score of 6-0.
St. Joseph relied on their star forward, senior Brooke Ederlin to put Huntsville in a hole from the start. Ederlin scored two goals in the first three minutes forcing Huntsville to concentrate on shutting her down. The Huntsville defense adjusted to stop the high-powered St. Joseph attack for the next thirty-two minutes until St. Joseph exploded for three quick goals at the end of the half to take a 5-0 lead.
“We thought that we had a pretty good game plan to stop their passing game,” said Huntsville coach Steve Harwood. “But when that forward of theirs dribbled through our defense and scored those two quick goals, we had to scramble around to get that stopped. After the opening shock, Ashley Johnson did a good job of closing her down but by that time they had us backed up on defense. Tiffany McGlumphy had them contained on the other side of the field all game long. But we didn’t have very many scoring opportunities in the first half. Eustacia Templeton got us going offensively in the second half with good passing but we just couldn’t get a goal to drop in.”
St. Joseph scored an additional goal in the second half to get to the final margin.
“This was a good experience for our young team,” said Harwood. “We only have four seniors and we had to rely on a lot of sophomores and freshmen this season. This should really help them see what they have to do to compete at this level.”
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