Haddonfield Girls are still looking for their first win after yesterday's 3-1 loss to non-conference Group 3 rival, Winslow Township. Well, at least we scored our first goal of the year.
The Bulldawgs were blanked by Sterling, 2-0 in the season opener on Wednesday. Yesterday was the home debut in the Haddonfield Stadium and when Winslow's heralded Taziarra King (featured a week ago in the Inquirer) rifled a shot into the upper right corner just 8:44 into the contest, it looked like it might be another long day. To their credit, Haddonfield girls, who started three sophomores and three freshman, settled down and took control of play.
In the 30th minute the referees seemed to miss a call that would have given us a penalty kick, but 8:13 before the half freshman Wayden Ay found the goal and it was 1-1 at intermission. Given our momentum and the outstanding goalkeeper we have in Taylor Sehdev (who is bound for my alma mater, Gettysburg College) things were looking good - until King took control and scored twice within 1:38 to put the game out of reach.
Collingswood is on tap in the stadium Tuesday night.
I didn't get to announce the game because the wireless mike was left in the school, but no matter. I'll be that much more ready for Tuesday's game. More important, so will the players. Given the youth of the team and the outstanding coaching staff we have, I expect we will see tremendous growth and improvement all season.
As an aside, in the "I really feel old now" department, the assistant of Winslow is Wesley Roach, who played with Scott for the Medford Strikers for a year or two at U12 and against him for the Evesham Outlaws in some classic South Jersey Soccer League Premier Conference games back in the '90s.
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