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St. Joe Cruises Into District Finals With Easy 6-2 Win Over Ursuline

2 goals for Kaley Nieters in the second half. Angels face either Webster or Nerinx in the finals Wednesday,

There are differences between St. Joe and Ursuline Academy soccer teams. For one, St. Joe does not have to play its freshman goal keeper; Ursuline does.

Ursuline freshman keeper Jaime Spath was tested early and often and the Angels peppered the Bear nets for a relatively easy 6-2 district semifinal win.

The Angels have a fine freshman themselves in Rosie Breheny, but they start with sophomore Kelsey Ponder who has more experience.

The win sets up the Angels (15-2) against Webster Groves, 1-0 winner over Nerinx Hall. The Angels-Webster game will be played on the Angels' home turf Wednesday at 4 o’clock.

Hot or cold, sunny or not, the Angels keep on rolling. Six different attackers scored in the home win. Kaley Nieters notched a key second-half goal. It was pretty. She split the defense, working the ball from her left to right foot and toed in an easy pair past a bewildered Spath.

“I just pointed the ball and it went in. I was ready to score. I was just looking for the corner of the net. We can’t get too full of ourselves and I think we can continue this season. We have lots of experienced players,” said Nieters.

Others got into the scoring act. Kate Croghan scored the first of six team goals. From there Allie Henstchell, Ali Magaletta and Haley Kavanaugh all scored. The final goal was real team and crowd pleaser. Seldom used Megan Won pounded in the 6th and final goal, much to the delight of a large crowd in attendance.

Ursuline got second half goals from Abby Basler and Katie Richter.

Its been a tough season for Ursuline coach Annie Beekman. She gathered lots of wins as the former Incarnate Word coach. Her Bears finished up 7-9 this season and she and her coaches now go back to the drawing board.

For St. Joe, all systems are go in the district title game. The Angels have now won 11 of their last 12 games.

Was Maureen McVey, the hall of fame coach satisfied? “Yea, I thought we played really well. We distributed the ball well. We had a game plan going in and the girls did what we asked them to do, and now we move on.

We had a few errors today, and that’s not going to cut it further along. On this surface (well manicured grass) there’s no reason to be dribbling the ball so much. We’ll see,” said McVey.


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