Junior Varsity Girl's Soccer: Knights Improve In Skill and Style In Early Season

By Ben Spector
Winning After MidKnight

 

The Middletown High School Knights Junior Varsity Girl’s Soccer team has had every reason to believe that this season will be a successful one after a hot start to the Knights’ 2016-2017 campaign. Middletown has looked sharper on a day by day basis and they will look to translate those improvements into more victories.

The Knights will continue with those improvements that they have been making when they take on the Tuscarora High School Titans at Knights Field at Middletown High School at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday September 15^th.

Middletown (2-0) has started seeing continuous improvement from when they started the season up to the game against the Titans and for Middletown there is nowhere to go but up. Starting from the preseason and going up until this point the Knights have been continuously playing better and the results they have received from each game have showed for it.

The Knights ended the preseason with a 0-0 draw against the Walt Whitman High School Vikings and then would secure a victory in the first game of the season against the Brunswick High School Railroaders coming back from a two goal deficit to win 4-2.

Then, in the most recent game against the North Hagerstown High School Hubs, Middletown would tally four goals throughout the contest and would easily pick up the 4-0 win. Now, it wouldn’t be unfair to say that the Knights haven’t been helped out by playing some of the easier teams on the schedule at the start of the season as it has definitely help ease the Knights into the rigors of the regular season.

The Knights have been helped in those games with solid play all around as Middletown’s offense has been good at creating chances, the defense has played solid when they needed to play solid, and the Knights have gotten some lucky bounces at times to help them lock up the games.

The goaltending has been a plus for Middletown as the Knights have had excellent play from sophomore Molly Faron to power the Knights through the early games of the season as she has been solid when she needs to be.

It’s just one of many small improvements that can be seen across the board for the Knights as from some of the most inexperienced freshmen to the most talented sophomores all of the Knights have made small and sometimes big improvements in their play.

One of these can be seen up front in the play of sophomore Ally Pick, the eldest of the Pick sisters. Pick has already began the transition from a forward who played more in the midfield than need be to a forward who is making exciting runs on the ball up top and is creating offense with her speed and agility.

This has helped the Knights win games as although Pick has not scored for Middletown she has helped on multiple occasions by forcing the flow of the game up the field by stringing together a long run and picking up a shot on goal or getting a corner out of the play which in both ways allows the Knights to be able to move the formation that they are playing up the field and begin to develop a more offensive gameplan from deep inside their opponent’s zone.

There are a many more stories about how the players on the Knights have slowly improved early in the season but the best testament would be the fact that Middletown is winning games with more skill and style in every game they play.