St. Mary’s girls defeat Classical 5-0

LYNN – The second game of the Lynn City Soccer Tournament doubleheader on Tuesday at Manning Field featured St Mary’s against Lynn Classical. St. Mary’s won, 5-0.Classical will play Pope John at 11 a.m. in the consolation on Saturday and English will match up against St Mary’s at 3 p.m. in the championship game.Classical coach Marcy Durgin is in her fourth season at the helm. When asked about the team’s progress during the preseason, she said, “We have 21 players on the team and eight are freshmen. It will take a while to integrate them in with the upperclassmen. We are playing five games in nine days. We should know by then.”Jim Foley, the Spartans’ head coach, is in his 10th season. He has a veteran club returning, led by all-everything Amanda Webster, who will attend Santa Clara University next year.The Classical goalie is Sochitta Men, whom Durgin recruited from the basketball team. She had never played soccer before. She received her baptism of fire in the first minute of the game, when Amy Bozarjian crossed the ball through the area to Courtney Winters, who shot. Men made the save and Winters put in her own rebound. St. Mary’s jumped out to a 1-0 lead.Classical recovered from the quick goal and took the game to the Spartans. The St Mary’s defenders, Mikaela Donovan, Briana Marotta, Stephanie Mowry and Bridget Donovan, were able to keep the young and inexperienced Rams away from keeper Megan Brickley.In the 22nd minute, Kristin Ferrari took a shot. The ball rebounded to Tonianne Gernigla, who scored for the Spartans’ second goal. With less than a minute to go in the half, Amanda Webster unleashed a rocket that hit the rear net before anyone could move to stop it. At the half, the score was St Mary’s, 3, Classical 0.The second half was six minutes old when Winters dribbled through the defenders and put it by freshman keeper Mackenzie Coppinger.Brittany Naumann finished the scoring in the 54th minute. The score was now 5-0. Both coaches emptied their benches for the rest of the game.