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Friday, Apr. 16, 2010
|Panthers win marathon soccer game with = Lancers
Sophomore Reed scores winning goal in second=20 overtime
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O'FALLON -- O'Fallon sophomore soccer player Brooke Reed made the = most out of=20 her second chance Thursday against the Belleville East Lancers.
An athletic midfielder, Reed beat Lancers freshman goalie Abby = Burgdorf with=20 a shot from 25 yards out with 3 minutes 17 seconds left in the second = overtime=20 to give surprising O'Fallon a come-from-behind 2-1 victory in a = Southwestern=20 Conference soccer game.
Reed , who had missed wide from nearly the same spot on the field = just 40=20 seconds earlier, got the ball, waited a split second, then drilled a = left-footed=20 bullet into the upper right-hand corner of the net.
"I think she (Reed) was a little upset with herself after she missed = the=20 first shot and her reaction was like 'I can't believe I did that. If you = noticed=20 she kind of pulled her jersey over head in disbelief,'' O'Fallon coach = Craig=20 Dippel said. "What Brooke is really good at is holding on to the ball = and=20 waiting for things to develop.
"That's what she did. She didn't panic, she made a couple of moves = and just=20 hit a great shot. Good for her and good for us.''
The SWC win is the second of the week for the Panthers (6-1-1), who = defeated=20 Collinsville on Tuesday. East, which dominated the first half and most = of both=20 overtimes, falls to 6-4 for the season.
Getting inspired play from several players, including freshman Kayla = Delgado,=20 East took a 1-0 lead late in the first half when freshman Anna Scoggins = scored=20 during a scramble in front of the Panthers goal following a free = kick.
The Lancers also had several other good chances in the first half, = but=20 O'Fallon junior goalie Alaina Bauer made several outstanding saves. = Bauer would=20 finish with 11 saves for the game.
"We had some very good scoring chances that we just failed to take = advantage=20 of tonight, especially in the first overtime,'' Lancers first-year coach = Alex=20 McDonald said. "On the game-winning goal, I think it looked like it = might have=20 been a little bit of a defensive breakdown on our part, but let's give = credit to=20 their (O'Fallon) midfielder. It was just a great individual effort.
"You know, we're 6-4 and we've probably had a couple get a way from = us that=20 we shouldn't have, but we're playing five freshmen a lot of the time. = We're=20 awfully young, but we're getting better game by game.''
O'Fallon put on some pressure of its own in the early stages of the = second=20 half, finally tying the game on an impressive individual effort by Paige = Pfunkuch, who took the ball the length of the field, then crossed a = perfect pass=20 to Katie Morris, who beat Burgdorf from point-blank range,
The goal came with 30 minutes remaining in regulation and while both = teams=20 had good chances to break the tie, the game remained deadlocked until = Reed won=20 it for O'Fallon.
Contact reporter Dean Criddle at 239-2661 or dcriddle@bnd.com.
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