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Thursday, Mar. 25, 2010
|Hats off to Althoff senior in victory over = O'Fallon
Pawloski scores hat trick in the triumph
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O'FALLON -- For Althoff senior Megan Pawloski, it was just a matter = of=20 time.
Kept scoreless in a Crusaders 2-0 season opening win over Granite = City,=20 Pawloski tallied three goals in an eight minute span in the first half = Wednesday=20 to lead the Crusaders to a 5-0 victory over O'Fallon.
Owner of 102 career goals entering the season, including 43 a year = ago,=20 Pawloski tallied her first 2010 goal with 22:22 remaining in the first = half when=20 she beat Panthers junior goalie Alaina Bauer from point blank range. =
The All-American forward then scored after a brilliant pass from = Kelsey=20 Dinges at the 20:18 mark before beating Bauer with a laser shot from 35 = yards=20 out, still 15 minutes before the end of the first half.
"It might have been a little bit of opening night nerves, but Granite = City=20 had two players on her the entire game," Althoff coach Juergen Huettner = said.=20 "O'Fallon's playing a lot of younger players and they were pushing up on = us,=20 trying for some offsides. Megan's pretty quick and I thought Kelsey just = made=20 great plays and passes to get her the ball where she could score."
Dinges, who scored both goals against Granite City, added two more = against=20 the Panthers. The cat-quick junior tallied the only goal of the second = half on=20 what appeared to be a head ball in a crowded area in front of the = Panthers goal=20 with 27 minutes left.
O'Fallon, thoroughly outplayed in the first half, put up more of a = battle in=20 the second half. In addition to allowing just one goal, the Panthers = (0-1) also=20 had scoring chances from Amanda Schawrz and Jessie York in the final 20=20 minutes.
"I thought we played a much better second half. We were able to put = some=20 passes together, held them to just one goal and overall just played a = much=20 better final half of soccer," O'Fallon coach Craig Dippel said. "I don't = know=20 what the problem was in the first half. I don't know if we were nervous = or what.=20 But our intensity in the first half wasn't very good and Althoff got up = four on=20 us.
"I was proud with the effort in the second half. Down four to a team = like=20 Althoff, we could have quit. But the girls kept playing hard."
Leading 3-0 following Pawloski's third goal, Althoff continued to = apply=20 pressure on Bauer who made at least three outstanding saves to keep the = score=20 respectable.
Dinges tallied with nine minutes remaining as the Crusaders lead grew = to=20 four.
"Two goals against Granite City, two more tonight. Kelsey has really = stepped=20 up as have several other players. Last year she may have been in the = background=20 a little bit, but like said before, she's really stepped up and given us = another=20 option," Huettner said. "Overall, I was pleased tonight. Five goals = against a=20 good program, good play in from our forwards and backfield and sold play = in=20 goal.
Contact reporter Dean Criddle at 239-2661 or dcriddle@bnd.com.
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