After an opening round loss the team rebounded with three strait wins including clean sheets in the semi finals and finals. According to coach Bolin: "Our athletes could have packed it in after the first loss, but they didn't". "They came back even stronger and reorganized themselves which shows a lot of heart". Second round action saw G97 Blue returning to their prior run of good form. Pinpoint passing and surgical finishing produced a 2-1 victory with Ashley Roskelly scoring the first goal with a clinical finish placing the ball calmly in the back of the net. Luli Bethencourt then provided the winning goal with a nice bit of skill beating the goalkeeper off the far post.
The victory was enough to place G97 Blue in the semi-finals were they faced the first place team from the other bracket. But Ashley Roskelly's 2 goal performance (both of which where 20 yard rockets!) was too much and G97's run of good form continued with a 2-0 victory. Back up goalkeeper, Jessica Matson, produced the clean sheet which set a rematch of game one for the final.
In the final, facing a determined and gritty silver team they had previously lost to, G97 maintained possession and balance which lead to a foul resulting in set piece just outside the penalty box. Set piece specialist, Kaylee Bolin, produced a wicked blast over the wall which proved too much for the goalkeeper putting Blue up 1-0 going into the half. The second half picked up where the first ended with G97 providing the majority of possession. With 10 minutes left in the game, Kaylee Bolin again fired a blast past the goalkeeper cementing the game and the tournament championship. Clean sheets were compliments of CC McPhee, Makayla Lictenwalter, Jules Zuniga, Audrey Briseno, and GK Gillian Kliss. Well done girls! And congratulations!
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