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girls’ soccer
week is quiet
The Woodstock Academy girls’ soccer team played Parish Hill early last week and then practiced for the remainder of the week.
Woodstock Academy raised its record to 6-1 with a 7-0 win over their visitors from Chaplin.
Senior Peyton Saracina scored two goals to raise her team-best total to 13. Saracina added an assist as did sophomore Grace Gelhaus who also finished with two goals and now has eight goals and eight assists on the season. Stella Brin raised her goal total to four as she also put a pair in to go with an assist and Lucy McDermott also tallied. Adeline Smith had her seventh assist of the season and Emma Massey also assisted on a goal.
Field Hockey
The Centaurs upped their record to 4-2 on the season with a 2-0 win over Waterford early last week.
The Centaurs took the lead in the first half when senior Olivia Ott got past the Lancer defense for a breakaway and Rachel Canedy found her with the pass, helping Ott record her fifth goal of the season. Eliza Dutson added insurance at the very end of the first half. Dutson inserted the ball off a corner with time ticking down. Alexia Adams got the ball back to Dutson who fired it into the cage, her first goal of the season, as time expired in the half.
Volleyball
It was one of those “if only things had gone a little differently” kind of moments for the Woodstock Academy volleyball team.
The Centaurs were on a roll, having taken an 11-3 lead in the second set of their match with two-time defending Class S state champ, Lyman Memorial.
Unfortunately for the Centaurs, the Bulldogs rallied and kept their perfect 2020 season going.
Not only has Lyman Memorial not lost a match in eight outings, they hadn’t dropped a set coming into their showdown with the Centaurs.
That didn’t change as the Bulldogs walked away with a 3-0 win over the Centaurs (5-2).
Lyman Memorial, which has visited the state championship in six of the last seven years, gradually built its own momentum in the first set. The two teams felt each other out threw the first 20 points, coming out with 10 apiece.
But Lyman opposite hitter April Beckwith presided over a four-point run from behind the service line and helped the Bulldogs open a 19-13 lead.
It was all Lyman Memorial needed as both teams scored six points over the remainder of the first set giving the Bulldogs the 25-19 decision.
Two kills from middle hitter Amelia Large and another by Aurissa Boardman (10 kills, 16 digs) gave the Centaurs a 4-1 lead. A block and a kill by middle hitter Sierra Bedard, two more Boardman kills and a Kileigh Gagnon service ace helped double that advantage, giving the Centaurs the 11-3 lead.
But things began to unravel. Lyman went on a 14-6 roll to tie the game at 17. Lyman took its first lead at 19-18 and followed up with the next three points en route to 25-20 win.
The Bulldogs put away the win with another 25-20 victory in the third set.
Tabby Bezanson had 24 assists for the Centaurs while Garbutt finished with 14 kills.
There was a silver lining. The Centaurs were able to identify a Lyman weakness in the back and they exploited it often in the match.
Despite the loss, Bottone thought it was a plus to play Lyman.
Marc Allard
Director of Sports Information
The Woodstock Academy