Sports
Patch girls still rule Div. II
May 25, 2003
Hanau's Patricia Foster (left) battles Patch's Laura Ingold for the ball during Saturday's Division II girls' soccer championship in Brunssum, Netherlands. (Jack Higbee / DODDS-Europe)
Hanau's Patricia Foster (left) battles Patch's Laura Ingold for the ball during Saturday's Division II girls' soccer championship in Brunssum, Netherlands. (Jack Higbee / DODDS-Europe)
Hanau's Jill Best (left) battles Patch's Haley Mitchem for the ball as Patch's Laura Ingold trails the play during Saturday's Division II girls' soccer championship in Brunssum, Netherlands. (Jack Higbee / DODDS-Europe)
Hanau's Claire Polcrack (right) tries to get the ball around Patch midfielder Misty Taylor during Saturday's Division II girls' soccer championship in Brunssum, Netherlands. (Jack Higbee / DODDS-Europe)
Their four-season winning streak might have come to an end this year, but the Patch Lady Panthers’ stranglehold over Division II soccer isn’t over.
Patch scored four second-half goals Saturday in a 4-0 victory over Hanau in the championship game in Brunssum, Netherlands, on Saturday.
It was the fifth straight soccer title for Patch. Patch won a combined Division I-II crown in 1999, and has reeled off four straight Division II titles.
Senior midfielder Courtney Allen scored Patch’s first two goals, the first on a penalty kick.
Freshman Bona Jones and junior Sabrina Silver also scored for Patch, which had its 48-game winning streak snapped earlier this season by Vilseck.
Hanau was one of two teams to defeat Patch this season. But Hanau couldn’t get a shot past Patch goalie Kyla Bye-Nagel, who made 10 saves.
Once Patch got the lead, the Lady Panthers employed a diamond defense, cornered by Sarah Doyle, Jessica Russell, Laura Ingold and Jennifer Crowley. The tactic cut down on Hanau’s scoring chances in the second half.
— AFNORTH employee Jack Higbee contributed to this report.