Harwood’s girls’ soccer team moves to 0-4-1 after losing to Montpelier 1-0 on Tuesday night, September 27.
Montpelier’s Lexi Drew scored the only goal of the match in the 31st minute.
The Highlanders came out in the first half as the stronger team and gaining many chances to score. Forwards Brynne Quirion and Kaia Cormier looked to be on the brink of scoring for much of the first 40 minutes.
Unfortunately, they were unable to capitalize on their opportunities and there was no score by either team heading into halftime.
Montpelier came back much stronger in the second half and made up for lost time.
“I think they came back and they matched our intensity, they pushed the ball through and they had us chasing,” Harwood’s coach Mike Vasseur said of Montpelier in the second half.
“They had opportunities; they capitalized. We had opportunities; we didn’t capitalize,” Vasseur also said.
It is worth noting that through the first five matches the Highlanders have been without senior captain Piper Bielke. When she does return it will bode well for the team, but today’s match was not lost because of missing players, said Vasseur.
The team will have the rest of the week to prepare for Green Mountain Valley School, their in-town rivals.
Draw against Hartford
Last Thursday, September 22, the team tied Hartford, 1-1.
“I really thought we could have walked away with a win. We scored first; we let up one really good opportunity and they scored,” Vasseur said of last week’s match.
Vasseur said that his team does not put the ball in the back of the net enough.
