Monday, October 14, 2002
Fall 2002 Game 4
The Scotch Plains U11 Girls’ soccer team, the Gold Rush showed their resilient side Saturday. Stung by a late first half goal that negated a dominant performance and tied the game, the Gold Rush erupted for three unanswered goals and produced their most balanced offensive performance of the year in a 4-1 victory over the White Sabres at Terrill Middle School.
Neha Pannuri moved up from her fullback position to deposit a loose ball into the net from fifteen yards late in the first half for the game winner. It came shortly after the Sabre goal which came on a breakaway. Earlier Nikki Hodulik alertly pounced on a rebound of a Laura Toffolo shot to open the scoring early in the first half.
In the second half the Gold Rush clicked on all cylinders and only some spectacular goal keeping kept the score down. Toffolo scored an insurance goal on a hard high shot from ten yards off a perfect pass from Gina Pelosi. Caitlin Hoynes-O’Connor was rewarded for her hustle by out fighting two defenders to score the final goal from short range.
The Gold rush, now 3-0-1 once again received solid goalkeeping from the trip of Mary Beth Fiedler, Katie Gartner and Eve Rosenheck. Making things easier for them was the defensive group of Pannuri, sweeper Shannon Reimers, Jessica Moore, Christina Bobyack and Sarah Lazarus.
As usual Pelosi,Toffolo and Hoyne-O’Connor dominated the midfield with assistance from fast improving Amanda Rodriguez.
Providing excellent line play was Hodulik,Christine Murphy and Allison Staniec.
With no game next week the Gold Rush are hoping to have the injured Toni Ann Gattozzi back in the lineup for their final regular season game on October 19.
Neha Pannuri moved up from her fullback position to deposit a loose ball into the net from fifteen yards late in the first half for the game winner. It came shortly after the Sabre goal which came on a breakaway. Earlier Nikki Hodulik alertly pounced on a rebound of a Laura Toffolo shot to open the scoring early in the first half.
In the second half the Gold Rush clicked on all cylinders and only some spectacular goal keeping kept the score down. Toffolo scored an insurance goal on a hard high shot from ten yards off a perfect pass from Gina Pelosi. Caitlin Hoynes-O’Connor was rewarded for her hustle by out fighting two defenders to score the final goal from short range.
The Gold rush, now 3-0-1 once again received solid goalkeeping from the trip of Mary Beth Fiedler, Katie Gartner and Eve Rosenheck. Making things easier for them was the defensive group of Pannuri, sweeper Shannon Reimers, Jessica Moore, Christina Bobyack and Sarah Lazarus.
As usual Pelosi,Toffolo and Hoyne-O’Connor dominated the midfield with assistance from fast improving Amanda Rodriguez.
Providing excellent line play was Hodulik,Christine Murphy and Allison Staniec.
With no game next week the Gold Rush are hoping to have the injured Toni Ann Gattozzi back in the lineup for their final regular season game on October 19.
# posted by David Lazarus @ 12:20 AM 
