Denison-Schleswig girls start soccer season with 5-0 win

**Karla Sanchez scores against Creston.** Photo by Rhonda Rauch

The Denison-Schleswig Lady Monarchs started its season with a 5-0 conference victory at home against Creston on April 4.

“Tonight was a great win to start the season. Defensively, we dodged a bullet very early as we nearly were down 1-0 right away. After that, we played great defense and stopped almost all of Creston’s counters without a shot,” said Head Coach Chris Eller. “When they did shoot, Sam Chandler did a good job of saving all their shots on goal.

“Offensively, we passed the ball pretty well and more importantly the girls played very unselfishly,” he added. “Our movement and spacing were pretty solid for most of the game. At times we got bunched up, or we kept the ball on one side of the field and had too many bodies to try to get our shots through. When we swung the ball side to side we got some one-on-one shots. We got a couple of goals on very good passes through gaps in their defense.”

Eller added that Creston’s goalkeeper had some very nice saves.

“I thought the girls did a great job of recognizing when to shoot and we had lots of girls take the shots when the opportunity was there,” he said. “I really like the trust the girls showed with their teammates tonight.”

Shots: Denison 31, Creston 5

Shots on goal: Denison 21, Creston 4

Saves: Sam Chandler had 4 saves in goal

Halftime score: Denison 2, Creston 0

Goals

1) Aremy Santos scored her 1st goal of the season with 12:45 left in the 1st half. The goal was assisted by Karla Sanchez (1st assist).

2) Estela Lupian scored her 1st goal of the season with 10:50 left in the 1st half. The goal was assisted by Janet Castillo (1st assist).

3) Aremy Santos scored her 2nd goal of the season with 37:35 remaining in the match. Hally Escobar (1st assist) got the assist as Escobar passed the ball 35 yards through a gap.

4) Libby Leon scored her 1st goal of the season with 26:49 remaining in the match. The goal was assisted by Mia Garcia (1st assist) and Karla Sanchez (2nd assist).

5) Karla Sanchez scored her 1st goal of the season with 5:32 remaining in the match. Hally Escobar passed the ball 35 yards over their back line to Sanchez running the right sideline. Sanchez dropped the ball to Nadia Medina who took a shot from 15 yards out. Medina’s shot was saved by a Creston defender, but the rebound went to Sanchez who finished the shot from 10 yards out near the right post.

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Lady Monarchs shut out Riverside in soccer

The Denison-Schleswig Lady Monarchs improved their record to 2-0 with a 6-0 win in soccer over Riverside in an away match on Tuesday.

Denison-Schleswig led 5-0 at halftime.

“We didn’t play our best soccer, but we did enough to get a win and also got 23 girls into the match for significant playing time,” said Head Coach Chris Eller. “With three games in four days, I didn’t want to have anybody play too many minutes tonight.”

He added that his team struggled with its touches as Riverside’s grass football field was very bumpy; the ball took a lot of funny hops on passes.

The Lady Monarchs also had a lot of shots go over the crossbar or just wide of the goal. At least three shots hit the post or the crossbar.

“Defensively, we had some breakdowns and dodged a couple of bullets when we substituted,” Eller said. “We will need to develop some depth this year because we won’t have all of our players for several games this year due to other activities that the girls are involved in. Hopefully, that depth will develop with continued learning at practice.”

Shots: D-S 31, Riverside 3

Shots on goal: D-S 13, Riverside 1

Saves: One save for Jocelyn Serrato. Sam Chandler also played in the goal but didn’t face any shots on goal.

Goals

1) Aremy Santos scored her 3rd goal of the season just 1:43 into the match, assisted by Rosy Segoviano (1st assist of the season). Segoviano had the ball on the right wing and kicked the ball over the head of the Riverside sweeper to Santos who took one dribble and hit the shot from 6 yards out.

2) Aremy Santos scored her 4th goal of the season with 25 minutes left in the 1st half, assisted by Libby Leon (1st assist of the season). Leon stole a pass from a Riverside player 18 yards from the goal, dribbled past 1 defender and passed the ball to Santos who was 8 yards from the goal. Santos 1-touched the pass just inside the left post.

3) Aremy Santos scored her 5th goal of the season with 14:39 remaining in the 1st half. Karla Sanchez (3rd assist) had a shot on goal that the goalkeeper deflected back on the field. Santos crashed the shot and finished the rebound from 3 yards out.

4) Karla Sanchez scored her 2nd goal of the season from 28 yards out on a direct kick following a handball by a Riverside defender, with 10:38 remaining in 1st half.

5) Mia Garcia scored her 1st goal of the season on a penalty kick from 12 yards out with 8:01 remaining in the 1st half. The penalty kick was the result of Alexa Santos being tripped in the box after receiving a throw in and trying to dribble around a Riverside defender.

6) Libby Leon scored her 2nd goal of the season, assisted by Rosy Segoviano (2nd assist of the season). Rosy beat a Riverside player to the ball about 8 yards from the goal and passed the ball back to Libby who hit a 1 touch goal from 18 yards out with 31:30 remaining in the match.

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