News for the Week of Nov. 5. 2012

Program Notes for the Week of 11/5/2012:

Over the next few weeks we will recap the past season with awards, stats and other fun facts. This week let's announce our All Lorain County honorees:

All Lorain County First Team - Sarah Nasr (Soph.)

All Lorain County First Team - Christine Gates (Sr.)

All Lorain County Second Team - Kailey McClain (Sr.) and Emily O'Connor (Jr.)

All Lorain County Honorable Mention - Ali Robinson (Jr.) and Catie Corrigan (Fr.)

In addition, the following girls were selected to play in the Lorain County All-Star Game - Christine Gates, Kailey McClain, and Claire Jones


Season Stats:
Let's look at some team stats this week:

Goals Scored:      20         

Goals Scored per Game:   1.25

Assists:                 14

Goals Given Up:   39

Goals Given Up per Game:   2.44

Shutouts:   2


All Time Records:
For a little fun and to satisfy some curiosity, over the next several weeks we will present our all time record against various opponents.

Avon  7 wins - 3 losses - 4 ties - We started playing Avon on a yearly basis in 2000 and this has become a great rivialry that we used to dominate in the early years, but the quality in Avon soccer has rapidly inproved to the point where they won the District championship in 2011.

Brecksville  0-7-1 - They joined the SWC 8 years ago and we have never beaten them. The one tie in 2010 allowed us to win the SWC championship outright with a 6-0-1 record.

Amherst  11-7-4 - Another SWC rival and 5 of the losses took place in the first 3 years of our program where we went 0-5 against them, but we have been pretty dominate since then.


Regional Update:
Westlake played Medina on Thursday of last week after the effects of Sandy had moved on.  Medina ended up defeating Westlake on a shot from 30 yds. out in the first overtime period.  Medina then went on to be defeated by Northwest Ohio power Perrysburg 2-0 on Saturday which advanced to the State final four. 

In Division II, Rocky River put up a great fight but were defeated by state power Walsh Jesuit 2-1 who has moved on to the State final four.

Strongsville is also still alive as they won a Regional championship with a 4-1 victory over Solon.  The Mustangs will next face undefeated 20-0 Perrysburg on Tuesday.


Soccer Site of the Week:
This week we will start to feature various club websites that you can visit to make arrangements for off season training.  Tryouts have already begun and almost every club is looking for HS girls to play.  We will start out with Cleveland United which may be found at:

http://www.clevelandunited.org/

A number of our Shoregals play with Cleveland United including Sarah Nasr, Clare Adams, and Rada Zunich.   Check them out!