After being outplayed for parts of the first half, North East girls soccer coach Matt Roberts elected to move junior midfielder Savannah Dorey to more of an attacking role. The decision paid off when Dorey scored midway through the second half to help the Indians nip Edgewood 1-0 Wednesday, October 3, on a natural grass field at Calvert Regional Park. Dorey ran on to a pass from Mia Cudmore and slipped a shot past the onrushing Rams' keeper, all while being hotly pursued by a defender.
"When we first got the ball, I saw a clearing in the middle," Dorey said. "We passed the ball to Mia (Cudmore) and I just made the run in the middle and Mia got it to me in the center. We had to build it up from the back, though. It was the team who got it up the field." Once Dorey received the pass, she still had to deal with an Edgewood defender giving chase. "You just have to trust them you can either get by them or out-run them," said Dorey. "Your teammates tell you where to go and how far away the defenders are. They were telling me the defender was behind me and that if I just kept running I could get past her. The final touch was a little bit difficult just because of the defender who was on me, but I just got it off and it went in." Five minutes before Dorey's goal, Edgewood had a golden opportunity during a goalmouth scramble, but could not convert. The second half was much more back and forth after the Rams had maintained possession for much of the first 40 minutes. "I was very happy, especially with the second half," Matt Roberts said. "The effort and intensity we played with, I told them it was a gut-check win. I think they wanted it in the second half and came out and played really well together." Goalie Delaney McDilda recorded the clean sheet with plenty of support from her defenders. "I told the girls, everybody who played back there did well," said Roberts. "Emma (Haggerty) anchors the back of our defense. Regan Day on the outside was solid. Savannah did a great job on defense and then we were able to push her up and get the goal with her. The combination of the girls we had in the middle, marking, and Sarah Jones on the other outside was solid as well." Clinging to a one-goal lead, North East faced a few anxious moments in the waning seconds. With about three minutes left, Edgewood was awarded a free kick when an Indians player was whistled for a handball, which was ruled to have occurred just outside the penalty area. Instead of shooting from 19 yards out, the Rams made a pass and that shot was deflected over the end line for a corner kick. An Edgewood player sent a shot wide to give North East a goal kick. "We kept our heads up the whole game," Dorey said. "All the way through to the end, we gave it 110 percent. No matter what came at us, we just kept on going." Comments are closed.
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