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MIRROR SPORTS November 21, 2013 © 2013 the Mirror Sports Section • Classifieds • Business Directory • real Estate page Maumee Girls Come Together To Set School Soccer Records BY J. PATRICK EAKEN MIRROR SPORTS The Maumee girls soccer team set a school record, scor- ing 104 goals, but that is not the mark of which they are most proud. The Panthers finished the season 13-6-1 and comprise the first girls soccer team in school history to win sectional and district tournaments and quali- fy for regional action. Maumee lost to Celina 1-0 on a 4-3 penalty kick shootout after neither team scored through 80 minutes of regula- tion, nor 30 minutes of two sudden-victory overtime peri- ods during a Division II regional semifinal. The Panthers had outshot the Bulldogs 27-7, but the Western Buckeye League champs did what they had to do to end Maumee’s season. For first-year coach Holly Hamilton, a 2005 MHS gradu- ate who played club soccer at Bowling Green State University, it was an incredible ride. She says her girls did what they had to do, too, when they Maumee’s girls soccer team were regional qualifiers this year and finished up with a solid 13-6-1 record. The squad included (from left) back row, won three tournament games Sam Korsog, Brynn Sautter, Jacq Korsog, Olivia Dameron, Erica Tullis, Nicole Wong, Kenzie Winkle, Victoria Dameron; and front row, Maddy and went 3-3-1 against Woolford. MIRROR PHOTO BY JOHN POLLOCK Northern Lakes League compe- I’ve had so many compliments stories about my team. One of mention. Victoria Dameron (two goals, challenges to overcome from tition. about Maddy on and off the the football coaches would Hamilton dished out two two assists) and junior last year, and I feel like they “I’m just so proud of them, field that I felt like she deserved joke around that my girls soc- Coaches’ Awards – to senior defender Taylor Wulf as the really did well. I had so many not just as soccer players, but it,” Hamilton said. cer team was more aggressive defender Kenzie Winkle (one team’s five three-year varsity compliments from teachers, overall,” Hamilton said. “I feel Senior midfielder Erica than his boys were, and they goal, one assist) and senior letter winners, with Victoria from administrators and from like when they came into it Tullis, who had 56 points (18 would play through anything. midfielder Nicole Wong (five Dameron and Wulf (three everybody about how the girls’ they didn’t really expect to get goals, 20 assists), has verbally They really would. Jacq would goals, eight assists). goals, one assist) having a attitudes changed and how as far as we did. committed to play soccer at do anything to help the team, “Regardless of whether they chance to earn a fourth next much better they were at team “They knew they were The University of Toledo next and she’ll definitely be greatly were injured or not, they were year. bonding.” good, but they just never came year, where her sister Brooke is missed.” still there to support the team,” Sophomores Emma Hamilton is hoping that together until almost the tour- a star athlete on the cross coun- Korsog set a new school Hamilton said. “They were the Rehberg (one goal, two some changes in state associa- nament. The second that tour- try team. record with most shutouts in a motivation.” assists) and Claudia tion rules will allow her more nament started, they were like, Hamilton said Tullis missed career (31) and is tied as the Junior defender-midfielder Woolford (12 goals, eight time in the offseason to devel- ‘All right, time to play.’ And making all-state by one spot, goalkeeper with the most Sam Korsog, for her play assists) are two-year letter op her underclassmen. they did what they had to do.” finishing seventh when the top career wins (41). through the tournament, was winners. “Now, we’re allowed to The Panthers were led by six are awarded the honor. Senior forward Olivia named the team’s most First-year varsity letter coach four girls at a time and I senior midfielder Maddy Tullis and Maddy Woolford are Dameron (52 points, 22 goals, improved. She had one goal, winners are seniors Maddy don’t really know much more Woolford, who had 78 points both first-team NLL. eight assists) is second-team but rarely had the opportunity Buck (two goals, three about it,” she said. “I know on 29 goals and 20 assists. The Tullis set a school career NLL and is now considering to score, and ended up as a assists), Janie Hudson and (boys coach) Doug (Everhart) 29 goals are a school record, as record in headers (267) and tied playing soccer at Ursuline team leader in steals. Natalie Rodriguez-Steen (one and I have been talking about are her career goals (70) and Woolford with the school’s College in the Cleveland area. “When we went into the goal), juniors Glovier and when we should do (offseason assists (54). Her 20 assists are mark for most assists (20). She had previously considered tournament, she improved so Sam Korsog and freshman practices) and where we should tied for most in a season. Tullis played injured in the running track at the University much, it was crazy,” Hamilton Bri Ortiz (two goals). do it.” For the third time in her regional semifinal, and possi- of Cincinnati, but still has not said. All 10 seniors, Buck, Junior Varsity career, Woolford is first-team ble surgery could have a bear- made a decision. After leaving Maumee, Dameron, Hudson, Jacq The Maumee JV team fin- all-Ohio to go along with this ing on her soccer future. “Originally, she wanted to playing at BGSU and then Korsog, Rodriguez-Steen, ished 1-7, including 0-4 in the year’s Northwest Ohio Because of that, she is in a leg go somewhere for track, but serving as an assistant coach in Sautter, Tullis, Winkle, Wong NLL, with some players getting Scholastic Soccer Association brace and will miss the basket- she didn’t realize that she had Springfield, Ohio, Hamilton and Maddy Woolford are on varsity playing time, including Player of the Year award, and ball season, where she was a other options,” Hamilton said. says these players made her the NLL senior all-academic dressing for the tournament. she is the team’s Most Valuable starting guard last year. Senior defender Brynn first year at the helm go that team. Jacq Korsog, Tullis and Juniors on the JV team are Player. She is keeping her col- Playing injured was nothing Sautter, who is third-team much better. Maddy Woolford are Salwa Al-Hajabed and Lauren lege playing options open for new to Coach Hamilton’s NLL, is also considering her “It has been amazing. NWOSSCA all-academic. Bailey. now. players, however. Senior goal- options at playing college soc- Honestly, I feel like they made Next year, with 10 seniors A large sophomore contin- Hamilton says Woolford keeper Jacq Korsog (55 saves) cer. She was a team leader in it so much easier,” Hamilton gone, Hamilton admits she gent includes Anne Al- was more than a soccer player played with an injured back for steals and headers, but also had said. “They already knew what will have her work cut out Hammoudi, Hailey Chaplin, for her teammates and the much of the season. nine points on four goals and they had to do, and then we for her. Olivia Dorr, Emily English, coach. That was the reason she “We’ll definitely miss her in one assist. had to get the whole team, in a “They did so well,” she Rebekah Glovier, Kayla got the MVP award, because goal,” Hamilton said. “We Not only are they potential sense, working as a team and I said. “I couldn’t be more Karcher, Cierra LaCourse, Hamilton had second thoughts already have a junior who is college soccer players, but feel like that was the biggest proud of my girls. As players, Sammy Michalak, Audrey about giving awards to any of going to step up to the plate Dameron, Sautter, Tullis and thing we actually accomplished some of them grew exponen- Miller, Taylor Nelson, Maddie her four co-captains. next year in Cassie Glovier, but Woolford are all four-year var- this year – We are a team and tially. Like Sam, that was Otterson and Sydney “She was actually a huge nobody even knew that Jacq sity letter winners. Tullis and not just one individual player. ridiculous, she did so much Stachowiak. support system for the girls. had a hurt back for much of Woolford are also first-team Jacq Korsog, Winkle and better throughout the year. Freshmen contributing The girls could talk to her the season. all-district, Dameron second- Wong are joined by junior “Just coming together as a include Allie Davis and Mia about anything and honestly, “That’s one of the amazing team and Sautter honorable defenseman/midfielder team was one of their bigger Lyons. Mirror SportS DEpArtMENt Phone: 419-893-8135 • Fax: 419-893-6397 • www.themirrornewspaper.com Page 2-S THE MIRROR November 21, 2013 Success Defines 2013 Maumee High School Boys Soccer Team BY J. PATRICK EAKEN Rossford (3-0), the their own. MIRROR SPORTS Sandusky Bay Conference “It’s amazing to go out The Maumee boys soccer and Northern Buckeye to Rolf Park on a Saturday team had its best season in Conference’s best. or Sunday and see players 10 years, according to After a 4-3 overtime win out there working to get research by fourth-year over Wauseon earned better, and a lot of these coach Doug Everhart.