Sumner gets revenge for defeat to Capital

SOCCER: Spartans beat Cougars, 1-0, ending Capital’s season at 3A districts

The Olympian | • Published November 08, 2009

Comments (0)

OLYMPIA – One goal was all it took for the Capital girls soccer team to see its season end.

Ten minutes into the Cougars’ winner-to-state, loser-out 3A district girls soccer game against Sumner, a 25-yard shot by Spartans midfielder Kelsey Hansen was the lone goal in the 1-0 loss for Capital on Saturday afternoon at South Sound Stadium.

“It was pretty far out,” Capital coach Anna Boatright said. “We had to play well and we didn’t play as well as we could have.”

The loss ends Capital’s season at 13-5. Sumner advances to the Class 3A state tournament, which begins Tuesday.

It was a sweet revenge of Sumner, which lost to Capital in the teams’ nonleague matchup earlier this season, also by a 1-0 score.

The Cougars were the subdistrict’s No. 1 seed after a 2-1 come-from-behind victory over North Kitsap on Tuesday, and looking to qualify for state for the second time in three seasons.

They had some opportunities to score, especially in the second half when the Cougars showed signs of being the more dominant team. Two of Capital’s shots hit the crossbar, and the Cougars couldn’t capitalize on a late one-on-one opportunity.

“The defense played well,” Boatright said, “and the forwards had some chances.”

Kennedy 8, Yelm 1: The Tornados had reason to hope they could win their winner-to-state, loser-out game against the Lancers after Sydnee Anderson scored for the Tornados in the third minute of the game.

Yelm was still in it at halftime, trailing 2-1, before Kennedy scored six second-half goals.

“We just kind of fell apart,” Yelm coach Shelley O’Dell said. “Once they scored the third and fourth goal, we just lost it. It was like watching a balloon deflate.”

It was Yelm’s first 3A district tournament game in school history after the Tornados won their subdistrict game against Port Angeles on Tuesday, 2-0. Yelm ends its season at 7-10.

Emerald Ridge 4, Olympia 1: The Bears’ season ended in their winner-to-state loss to the top-ranked Jaguars.

Deidra Woodward scored Olympia’s only goal.

Olympia was the fifth seed from the Narrows League tournament, defeating Central Kitsap, 2-0, to earn a match in the winner-to-state, loser-out district tournament.