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Burroughs dominates Brentwood in District Finals

Bombers Move On to Face Crossroads Next in Tournament Play.

The Brentwood girls soccer team entered Thursday’s Class 1 District 4 championship game averaging better than two goals per game. The top-seeded Eagles were not only shut out Thursday against host John Burroughs, they did not record a single shot on goal.

No. 2 Burroughs dominated the entire match and left Leland Field as district champions following a 4-0 victory.

“I think it’s a testimony to the way the girls trained and kept in good shape,” Burroughs coach Alan Trzecki said. “They stayed in formation and really played together as a team.”

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The Bombers (7-8-1) will play District 3 champion Crossroads (12-2) on Tuesday. Burroughs lost last year’s district title game on its home field to Kennedy on penalty kicks.

“This is a much better feeling,” Trzecki said, comparing last year to this year.
Trzecki said he didn’t know much about the Eagles, just that “they had a strong record and had scored some goals.” What the Bombers did Thursday was play keep-away, possessing the ball nearly the entire match. Each team had just two corner kicks, but both of Brentwood’s came in the final seven minutes.

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“We came in, looked at all their stats and knew we had to play with a level head,” Burroughs sophomore Sydney O’Neal said, “just come in and try our hardest.”
Trzecki said one of his team’s problems all season had been finishing scoring opportunities. Despite outshooting the Eagles 8-0 in the first half, the Bombers held just a 1-0 advantage. Several shots went wide and one – off the foot of Vanessa Asaro – caromed off the crossbar. But Burroughs scored on three of its six second-half shots to blow the game open.

“It was nice to get a couple of finishes in the second half,” Trzecki said.
One of the players who had a particularly tough time finishing chances early was O’Neal. On three separate occasions she watched her shots go wide of the net. She finally poked one into the left corner of the net in the 61st minute to give Burroughs a 3-0 lead.

“I was just really excited because right before that everyone looked at me and I was like, ‘I’m going to get one in if it kills me,’” O’Neal said.

Burroughs got the match’s first goal in the 13th minute when Kate Koby knocked in a rebound off the hands of Brentwood goalkeeper Haley Holtgrieve. The initial shot had come from sophomore Zoe Smith. Koby scored again in the 52nd minute, this time getting an assist from Asaro before blasting the ball past a diving Holtgrieve.

Asaro got her second assist on O’Neal’s goal that made it 3-0. O’Neal scored again in the 71st minute when her crossing pass went by Emily Goodloe to Caroline Stoner, who then knocked it back to the middle, where O’Neal headed it in.

The Eagles (12-8) had played just two previous games this season on artificial turf. While he gave Burroughs credit for being a “great defensive team,” Brentwood coach Cory Grage said his team never got used to the speed of the surface, “trying to figure out how long those through balls need to be and how to get settled quickly and move on. Just a tough day all around.”
 
BURROUGHS 4, BRENTWOOD 0
Brentwood                  0  0 – 0
John Burroughs          1  3 – 4
Scoring
JB – Kate Koby (Smith) 13:00
JB – Koby (Vanessa Asaro) 51:09
JB – Sydney O’Neal (Asaro) 61:19
JB – O’Neal (Caroline Stoner) 71:22

Statistics
Shots: Brentwood 0, Burroughs 14. Corner Kicks: Brentwood 2. Burroughs 2. Fouls: Brentwood 3. Burroughs 5. Saves: Brentwood (Haley Holtgrieve) 9. Burroughs (Haley Botteron) 0.

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