The Danvers Varsity Girls Soccer Team hosted Beverly Monday night.  The 2 Teams played a couple of weeks ago in Beverly with the Falcons winning 3-1.  This game was bound to be a back and forth battle.

 

Both Teams played extremely well early on with each taking time attacking in the other's end and both Teams making great defensive plays throughout the half.  The back 4 of Addi McCarty, Maddie Hanas, Cassidy Randall and Ali Doucette did well to keep the fast Beverly forwards away from dangerous areas on the field.  Junior Ashley Freitas played a key defensive role as well in her defensive center mid position.  In the 13th minute of the game, the hosts got on the score board.  Freshman Maddie Hanas stole the ball from a Panther player and passed it to senior captain, Georgia Prouty.  Prouty took a dribble to her left and boomed a shot from 32 yards out right into the upper right corner of the Beverly goal for the early lead.

 

"We talked before the game to the players about trying to get an early lead to set the tone for the game.  Maddie created that goal by making a great defensive tackle and then finding Georgia.  Her shot from distance was perfectly hit."

 

At the end of the first half the score remained 1-0.  Only 9 minutes into the second half, the Falcons struck again.  Hanas started the play off again by playing a ball up the right wing to junior, Lila Doucette.  Doucette speed dribbled by 2 defenders and sent a ball into the box where junior DeAnna Figueiredo battled for the 50 / 50 ball.  The loose ball popped out to the top of the box where senior captain, Brooke Wynott crushed it into the back of the net for the 2 goal lead.  

 

"That was a great play by all of the girls involved.  Lila had to beat 2 defenders to get the cross off and DeAnna was in perfect position to battle for it.  Brooke made sure to hit it hard and it was a much needed second goal.  It was great to see Brooke get that one.  She had an awesome game tonight from her midfield position.  She was terrific at finding space on the field and she was finding teammates with great lead passes."

 

8 minutes later Beverly would get one back.  A ball played into the Danvers goal box produced a scrum of players going for the ball.  A lose ball came right to the foot of one of the Panther attackers and she was able to pass it into the side of the net to cut the lead to 2-1.  Danvers scrambled for a few minutes following the goal.  However, with 18 minutes to play in the game, the Home Team padded their lead once again.  Danvers was awarded a corner kick and Prouty hit a hard, low ball into the box.  Sophomore Emma Sutherland one timed a right footed blast past the diving Beverly keeper to make the score 3-1.  

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Goalkeeper Maddie Dembowski made a few saves in the final 10 minutes, giving her 15 total for the game and the Danvers defense hung tough to grind out the victory.  Danvers improved to 7-1-1 win the win.

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"That was a huge win for us against a very good, physical Beverly Team.  We got great play from so many players today.  I especially like the efforts of freshman, Cassidy Randall on defense and freshman Kaia Glover in the the attack.  Cassidy played with a ton of confidence tonight. Kaia played some great through passes to our forwards tonight and also got some good chances playing up top herself."

 

Danvers will be back at it Wednesday afternoon when they travel to Salem for another N.E.C. game.