Summerville Girl’s Soccer defeats Goose Creek, 5-2, Mary Morgan Lewis Scores Five Goals In Final Two Regular Season Games
By Billy G. Baker
Publisher
Summerville — One day after a hard-fought loss to arch-rival Fort Dorchester (5-4), the Summerville Green Wave girls’ soccer team defeated Goose Creek, 5-2 and will now prepare for a first-round playoff game at Cane Bay on April, 30.
Senior tri-captain Mary Morgan Lewis made some scrap-book memories in her final two regular season games for the Green Wave. The talented “left-footed” striker left it all on the field against the Patriots, scoring a Hat-trick with three goals, while often being double teamed. Lewis followed that accomplishment up with two goals against Goose Creek 24 hours later on John McKissick Field.
“Last night’s game against the Fort was exhausting, and I came into this game today with tired legs and bruises all over my body, but you have to want it, and you have to keep going,” said Lewis who hopes to walk-on to the team (or play Club Soccer) at South Carolina next season. “I am a very competitive player and I love to win.
“I know sometimes, in my desire to win, I might take it out on my team as a captain, but I hate to lose and I love the game of soccer,” said Lewis. “I have been playing soccer for the past 11 years and I just do not want this season to end.”
Lewis leads the Green Wave in goals for the season as she scored her 16th and 17th goals of the season against the Gators. Lewis joined the varsity program at Summerville High late in her freshman season. She has been a three-year starter for the Green Wave and she was named all-region in her sophomore and junior seasons. She is an All-State candidate this season.
After the win over Goose Creek, Summerville head coach Mandy Holcomb (who played under retired Drew McNealey at West Ashley High) commented on the game, and on the leadership of tri-captains Lewis, mid-fielder Meghan Donoghue, and mid-fielder Logan Kelly.
“You always worry about playing a game the next day after a very competitive game like we had against Fort Dorchester last night,” said Coach Holcomb now in her third year coaching the team. “Even after we got down 2-0, I knew our girl’s had a lot of trust in each other and it was still early in the game. Much of this sport is a mentality thing and I had confidence in this team getting more mentally focused after getting down early.”
Coach Holcomb talked about the team’s captains. “Mary Morgan brings a lot of energy to the game and she leads this team both on- and- off the field,” said Coach Holcomb. “On the field it is always about the goals she scores. Mary Morgan has also been a good role model for our younger players coming up. We have a lot of youth on the team.
“Meghan plays center- mid along with our other captain Logan Kelly and they are able to dominate in the middle,” said Coach Holcomb. “Meghan is dynamic in that she is all over place and she is hard to nail down. Logan is cool, calm and collected and she is the yang to Mary Morgan’s yang. I rely on Logan to control the middle.”
Freshman Mary Bryce Nye had a hat trick of three goals against Goose Creek and she has a bright future in the sport. The Green Wave goalie is sophomore Addison Rollinson and she is consistent with her towering major college boots “high down the field” on a consistent basis.
Goose Creek head coach Chris Cooper told the HSSR after the game, “We were leading 2-0 before our striker (Maya Gonzales) went out with an ankle injury,” said Coach Cooper. “She is our leader on offense so losing her was a blow to the team.”
Gonalez scored the first goal of the game just two minutes into the game when she made a heads-up play beating the goalie to the ball in front of the goal for an easy score. The other goal for Goose Creek was scored by senior team captain Kamily Santanna who also assisted on the first goal.
Summerville rallied for five straight goals after being down 2-0. At the 17:02 mark of the first half Lewis scored on a break-away from a cross-over assist from Nye to cut the deficit to 2-1. With 1:30 left in the first half, Nye tied the score at 2 off of a penalty kick.
Summerville dominated the second half and the Green Wave kept the ball on their offensive side of the field for the second half. At the 30:09 mark of the second half Nye scored on a header off a corner kick to give Summerville a 3-2 lead. At the 18:49 mark of the second half, Lewis scored on an unassisted “streak shot” from the right side using her strong left-foot to arc over the goalie’s head into the back of the net to give her team a 4-2 lead.
Nye scored the final goal of the game at the 11:08 mark of the game on an unassisted goal from the left side of the field.
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