Pond Creek, Ky — Lawrence Co. ( 13-5 ) won their 9th straight District Girls Soccer Championship Thursday this time beating Belfry 4-1 to win the 58th District at Belfry High School.
2019 58th District Champions
Seniors Ally Moore, Hayleah Fletcher, Autumn Maynard, Sarah Lycans
Juniors Citori Branham, Ellie Webb, Karissa Jude
Sophomores Camran Diamond, Allyssa Moore, Jasmine Justice, Shelby Borders
Freshman Saibra Moore, Paylin Meek, Brylee Blair, Allyssa Howard, Head Coach Heath Webb
Belfry tied the score with 17 minutes left in the first half with a shot that scooted past goalie Ally Moore.
#33 Ellie Webb gave the Bulldogs the lead right back with a corner kick that bounced in for a 2-1 lead that the defense wouldn’t relinquish.
In the second half Sarah Lycans booted a goal 10 minutes in to give the Bulldogs some breathing room.
With 8 minutes left Webb hit Lycans with a pass that found the net to put the game away and wrap up another District Title for Lawrence Co.
The Bulldogs will host Johnson Central ( 13-4 ) Monday at 6:00pm in the 15th Region Tournament. The two teams didn’t meet in the regular season.
Belfry ( 11-8 ) will play Region favorite Prestonsburg ( 18-2 ) at the LCHS Soccer Complex at 8:00 Monday.
The 15th Region Championship Game will be Wednesday at 6:30 at the LCHS Soccer Complex.
Lawrence Co. Head Coach Heath Webb
“… It never gets old winning District, the previous eight were a little bit easier than this one. Tonight was different, give Belfry a ton of credit they came to play and outplayed us in the first half. We were fortunate to be ahead 2-1 at Halftime. The play of the game was Saibra Moore coming out of nowhere as Belfry was driving for a clear goal to knock it away and preserve our lead. Huge momentum play for our team.”
“… We were sloppy for the most part tonight. Belfry is a physical team with older kids. I told the girls coming into this season that Belfry will be a different team from years past. We have beaten them time after time 10-0 and they got tired of that. Only beat them 4-3 at our place so they were a confident team coming into this game, they thought they were going to win and they had the mojo.”
“… So proud of our girls for stepping up in a big game. Sarah Lycans played a great game, Ellie Webb and our midfielders Jasmine Justice and Brylee Blair were great. I could go on and on about are defense it was exceptional tonight.”
“…Whoever we play it will be a challenge, Prestonsburg and Johnson Central are both good. We played Prestonsburg and lost 6-2 but the score was much closer. They have played a great schedule and lost a couple games. We haven’t played Johnson Central this year but they are Johnson Central. It will be interesting and should be a great game. We will have home field advantage, so that is a plus.”
“… So proud of our program altogether at every level. We lost nine seniors off of last year’s team and 7 starters might have been our best team ever. These youngsters and all stepped into key roles and been terrific.”
