Our two year reign as state champs, at U15 and U16, had come to an end earlier in the spring of 1998 when we lost an overtime decision to arch rival Cherry Hill Rockets in the first round. (Payback is tough – two years earlier, at U15 - we had beaten the Rockets, former state champions, 3-0 in the first round of the Cup.) JAGS was all we had left to play for this year.
The tournament was at Rider College and I can’t remember who we played and haven’t had time to look it up. We made it through to the final and drew the Wyckoff Torpedoes, who had just a few weeks earlier won the U17 State Cup and were headed to regionals.
Don’t recall much about the game except that it was on one of the back fields at Rider and Lauren Calone, who went on to play at Georgetown, scored our only goal and we held on for a 1-0 win. That night I received an e-mail from Renee Engelhardt, mother of Torpedoes star, Erin Engelhardt (who later played at UVA) congratulating us and saying if Wyckoff had to lose, she was glad it was to us.
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