Giants soccer solid? You bet
Wanna know what else is solid? Keeping the Cougars out of your end of the pitch for most of the second half.
We hear this is pretty solid too: Holding an at-times electrifying Stuarts Draft offense to one first-half goal the entire match.
You betcha this is solid: Having two choice goalkeepers to choose from. In the first half Meicke went with Sam Crickenberger who stopped one shot, then in the second half, he inserted Jose Cruz who, well, all he did was stop two shots.
Two good goalkeepers? That’s a solid problem to have if you’re Meicke. “It sure is,” he said.
Cruz is a sophomore, Crickenberger is a junior. Looks like the Giants’ defense will be anchored very solid for a few years to come.
Solid years, you say? You know it. Cougar senior keeper Matt Sundeen is no joke himself — evident by his sweet stop of a Hugo Fernandez shot. But, on one goal the Giants put in the net past him, freshman Alex Farrington hooked up with sophomore Orlando Marin to give the Giants a 2-1 lead. That’s three years of combined high school experience scoring on four years. Yep, you guessed it. That’s pretty solid too.
Waynesboro junior Martin Mandujano, the Giants’ all-(then)-Valley District 2007 forward powered in a penalty kick with 7:56 left to play Monday that, for all intents and purposes, sealed the proverbial deal for Waynesboro.
“Martin is a workhorse,” Meicke said. And Mandujano is pretty solid himself.
Gotta give Draft coach Chris Loomis his ups, though. With all the hype surrounding his old-man team, he kept it in perspective throughout the start of the season. Yep, he knows his team is good and has the experience, but he told everybody excited about Cougar soccer to keep their Umbros on. He said, after all, that his team is still in the same district at Waynesboro.
You know, that team that’s pretty solid.
Of course, you have to give it up for Meicke too. He knows one win over Draft hasn’t given his young Giants anything other than respect. “We still have to play them over there,” he said.
Respect doesn’t win titles. It does, however, make you more solid.
And another thing: First Katie Botkin set up Sara Lamneck for the score. Then, using superior defense, Brittney Roberts made sure the lead stuck. No, silly pants, we’re not talking about Buffalo Gap’s run to a girls Group A, Division 1 basketball title. We’re talking about the Bison girls soccer team that, don’t look now, is off to a 5-0 start and has its eyes on Riverheads.
A question: Does anybody at Buffalo Gap only play and excel at one sport? Hey, I’m just asking.
The Giants couldn’t finish their business Monday in a 10-6 Southern Valley District softball loss to Stuarts Draft. After watching Brittnie Siron cruise through five innings and the offense push out a 5-0 lead for its ace, the Cougars finally got to her in the sixth as they scored six runs.
The end result? A 10-6 loss to Draft. A win the Cougars needed badly.
“We started to become excited in the dugout and we needed to cheer,” said Amber Christy, who took a break from driving in three runs to chat it up with the press after the win.
Staying solid: Waynesboro’s boys soccer JV team also beat Draft. That match ended 2-0 and gave the Little Giants their fifth win in six tries. Looks like we know what Waynesboro is going to be for years to come.
Yep. Solid.
