![]() Through nine games, Hughesville is among the leaders in the area with 34 goals scored. HUGHESVILLE (7-2): The Spartans’ offense has been playing as well as you’d want a team to play. Montoursville is a tough team all around and have established themselves as one of the area - and District 4’s - top teams.Ģ. That’s a credit to Natalie Reeder, Emma Wood, Natalie Bennett and Payton Bragalone on the backline. MONTOURSVILLE (8-0): If you read my column and didn’t just jump to my rankings, you’d have seen that the Warriors have allowed just three goals so far this season and haven’t given up more than one in a game yet. The Bulldogs also have posted two shutouts this year, blanking both Warrior Run and Towanda, and held Central Columbia, Bloomsburg and Mifflinburg to just one goal apiece.ġ. Cameron Fishel in goal has come up with some big saves this season.” “When those two have played together (Isaiah missed the Danville game), teams only scored set piece goals against us. I stand by my preseason statement that we have the two best center backs in the district,” Cornelius said. “We played a very aggressive style of defense led by our two center backs Pete Bellomo and Isaiah Reibson. And that’s a credit to Jersey Shore’s defense playing great. In Jersey Shore’s five wins this year, the Bulldogs have yielded just four goals in those contests. “We may not be the most talented team, but we are the hardest working team on the pitch.” Everyone knows their role and goes out and does a great job at it,” Cornelius said. “We have an unbelievable team commitment this year. Jersey Shore finished 5-13 last year and the Bulldogs have already matched their win total from 2021 with a 5-2 record so far this year. Jersey Shore tied Lewisburg in that game 1-1, making many fans in the area take notice of the Bulldogs. “Tough game to lose but it showed that we are here to compete this year.” When Lewisburg scored the first goal right before half normally a team would get down and fall apart but we came out in the second half and kept the intensity up,” Jersey Shore coach Mitch Cornelius said. After losing to them last year by 12 goals to show the intensity that we had this time was amazing. ![]() While Jersey Shore lost, it still played great against a perennially solid program. The Bulldogs weren’t going to let another dominant performance happen and Jersey Shore played absolutely outstanding in a 2-1 narrow loss to the defending Class AA state finalists. 15, fans may have thought another rout would ensue. So, when some saw Jersey Shore was hosting Lewisburg this year on Sept. The Green Dragons, who went on to last year’s PIAA Class AA championship game, dominated the game and won big. With two games remaining on Jersey Shore’s schedule in 2021, the Bulldogs traveled to Lewisburg and lost in a rout, 12-0. We don’t have to worry about them getting the ball because the defense is great.”Īnd that’s a large reason the Warriors are sitting with a 7-0 record. This was definitely our toughest test so far this year.” This is early in the season, this is a really good test for us. “We’re just super proud of how they play and we have to keep getting better. When they see that zero or one in opponent’s score, that’s their score. They’re defenders, they have that identity. That foursome in the back work perfectly together as a unit and take pride in the fact they can not only shut teams down, but not allow many to get off a great shot for a goal. Montoursville’s defense also came up big against an undefeated Dallas team on Saturday, handing the Mountaineers their first loss on the road, 1-0. They play defense together and we’re happy to have all four of them back again this year.” They’re always around the ball even when someone does get by them, they chase it down,” Montoursville coach Vic Gorini said. They read each other, they hustle, they never give up. They blanked Dallas, 1-0, on Saturday, posting yet another shutout as the back line gave up just four shots before cruising past Danville, 6-0, on Monday night. Against Shamokin and Loyalsock in back-to-back games in a three-day span, Montoursville not only shut both teams out 3-0 and 5-0, respectively, but didn’t allow a single shot.
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