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Wildcats Maul Mayville

The University School girls soccer team beat Mayville 7-1 Friday.

After its rousing overtime victory against Brookfield Academy Wednesday, the University School girls’ soccer team was ready for another good opponent.  Friday, USM traveled north to play Mayville, a team that made it to the state tournament last year.  The Wildcats mauled Mayville, 7-1.

“We wanted a tough schedule this year, so we scheduled Mayville because they were in the tournament last year.  We played a good game against them,” said USM’s head coach, Patrick Flanagan.

Flanagan was a bit worried before the game.  “We had to travel, and our warm-up was not that good,” he admitted.  “But we got a goal in just two minutes for a good start.”

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Senior Jenna Seter started USM’s scoring by running with the ball into the Cardinals penalty area and firing a bullet of a shot that beat Mayville’s senior goalie Kari Groth at 2:01.

 Flanagan added, “We try to score in the first fifteen minutes of each half.  It’s good to get ahead of a team, puts them down quickly.”

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The Wildcats had the Cardinals down, and fulfilled their coach’s strategy by adding two more goals to their total in the game’s first fifteen minutes.  Their second goal came at 5:27.  Sophomore Amber Baker sent a crossing pass into the Mayville box. Freshman Kate Nosbusch moved toward the oncoming ball. Swinging her leg like a Ninja’s kick, she hit the ball out of the air straight into Mayville’s net.

USM made the score 3-0 at 7:57. Senior Erika Hurth ran the ball down the sideline and sent it in toward Groth.  The ball caromed off the goalie to Seter, who promptly booted it in.

The Wildcats scored again near the mid-point of the half.  Senior Sally James gained control of the ball down the sideline and crossed it in to Baker.  Baker ran to it fervently and tapped it past Groth at 17:57.

USM had a five-goal lead before the end of the first half.  Freshman Sarah Aik sent a pass to James near the top of the penalty area. James blasted her shot into Mayville’s net at 31:00.

James scored USM’s next goal as well.  Early in the second half she took a pass from senior midfielder Margot Peterson, moved in, and like a dentist she drilled her shot into the Cardinals’ goal at 42:14.

At half time Flanagan replaced USM’s starting goalkeeper, freshman Merrill Read with senior Emily Hendrickson.  Hendrickson has not played much goal, and she was hesitant when asked about going in, “Um, hmm.  It was very interesting.  Even when you’re ahead by five goals, it’s nerve-racking having number thirteen coming at you.”

Mayville’s number thirteen is junior Chelsea Turk, the Cardinals’ leading scorer.  She scored Mayville’s lone goal by slotting a low shot under the diving Hendrickson at 50:34.

At 68:24 the Wildcats scored their final goal.  Nosbusch got the ball on the side and dribbled deep into the zone. She described the rest of the play, “I cut along the end line, dribbled into the six, and shot.  It made me happy because one of their players said, ‘can someone please stop her?’”

In the game Groth stopped 16 shots for Mayville.  Read made 5 saves, and Hendrickson made 8.

Mayville is now 6-4.  USM is 5-1 and 3-1 in the Midwest Classic Conference North.  The Wildcats play a conference game at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday against Dominican at USM.

(Thanks to Lindsay Teisl, Grace Florsheim, and Margaret Bodalski for their excellent help in preparing this report.)

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