It was a busy week on the Vashon soccer pitch for the Pirates. The varsity played three games in four days, coming out with two wins and a loss. The JV had two games, both big wins. And the girls finished the week with picture day on Friday.
Monday, Sept. 14, was a banner day for all Pirates with four different teams in three sports sweeping Eatonville. Girls soccer varsity topped the Cruisers 6-1, JV soccer won 4-0, boys tennis won 4-1 and JV football beat the Cruisers 34-33 at the Cruisers home field.
On Tuesday, Seattle Christian soccer survived a second half assault to defeat the Pirates 5-2, and on Thursday Vashon bounced back for a convincing 4-2 win over the Orting Cardinals after the JV set the stage with a 6-1 win over the Cardinals’ JV.
Eatonville was the final non-league opponent for Vashon until playoffs begin in late October. The Pirates took care of business early. In the eighth minute Cat Amick headed in a Teal Sigler corner kick. Eight minutes later Anna Jones connected on a free kick.
Amick got another goal in the 20th minute with an assist from freshman Lena deGuzman. DeGuzman got another assist when she fed the ball to Sigler for a goal in the 28th minute.
Sigler placed a corner kick under the top left corner of the goal seconds before the end of the first half.
The Cruisers snuck in one goal early in the second half before Sigler completed her hat trick and the scoring with a 35-yard free kick in the 51st minute.
The Pirates opened Nisqually League play hosting the Seattle Christian Warriors Sept. 15. Vashon outplayed the visitors most of the way, but the Warriors managed a 3-0 lead by halftime and extended it to 4-0 before the Pirates put on a furious rally resulting in two Sigler goals with assists from Amick and deGuzman. Seattle Christian put the game away with its fifth goal late in the game.
The Pirates took control of Thursday’s Orting game quickly and never let up. Sigler scored in the 13th minute. Orting came back with a goal by DaniRey Edwards in the 32nd minute, but Vashon came back in the second half and put the game away with three goals in less than five minutes. Sigler drove in a solo goal in the 46th minute. Less than a minute later Amick took a pass from Carlyle Scott to make it 3-1. Amick and Sigler exchanged passes, and Amick put the ball in the net in the 51st minute.
Orting’s Bethany Gross-nickle converted a penalty kick in the 72nd minute.
Pirate goalkeeper Sophie Nespor and the Vashon defense kept the Cardinals out of the net to preserve the victory.
The Pirate JV saved their scoring for the second
half on Monday against Eatonville. Brooke McKallor scored unassisted in the 46th minute and with an assist from Megan Hackett in the 52nd. Marya Munsey got a 56th-minute goal with Anna Osborne getting the assist. Hackett, with an assist from Taylor Hernandez, scored in the 70th minute. Goalkeeper Larissa Kuhns got the shutout.
McKallor scored the first two goals against Orting, in the 15th minute with a Samantha Clements assist and three minutes later on a pass from Micaela Beytebiere. Hackett made it 3-0 in the 27th minute with a Marielee Storms assist.
A moment of inattention by the Pirate defense gave the Cardinals their lone goal in the opening seconds of the second, but Clements came right back with a goal in the 42nd minute. Hackett set it up with a pass.
Hernandez and Munsey finished the Pirate scoring with unassisted goals in the 62nd and 73rd minutes.
Kuhns, Taylor Knowles and Courtney Gateman shared goalkeeping duty.
The Pirate varsity goes on the road for six games starting at Chimacum tomorrow, Sept. 24.
