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Show OtfgTfr , : i::z::::.: : PG Kickers Quiet Westlake Thunder 4-1 , but Suffer 3-1 Mauling at Mountain View by Dean Von Memmott The Pleasant Grove Vikings opened their 2011 girls' soccer season with a split in two road games. At Westlake on August 9, the Vikings quieted the West-lake West-lake Thunder 4-1. However, in an August 1 1 game in Orem, the Mountain View Bruins mauled Pleasant Grove 3-1. Viking Coach Caitlyn Young said, "In the Westlake game, Taylor Kirk scored two goals for us. Morgan Quaren- berg and Kristen Reynolds, also, each kicked in a goal for us. Westlake scored their only goal on a penalty kick." , The first half of the Mountain Moun-tain View game went down as a defensive battle. During that period, Viking Vi-king goalie Alicia Daniels and her Bruin counterpart, Nicole Smith, didn't let any shots zip past them. One of Daniels' most memorable mem-orable heroics for the game occurred oc-curred when Bruin Kiona Chris-tensen Chris-tensen carried out a breakaway play early in the opening period. The Bruin kicked a direct shot towards the goal. Daniels hurried hur-ried into the shot's path and intercepted in-tercepted the ball. Led by seniors Lydia Anderson An-derson and Britney Johnson, the Vikings made frequent penetrations pen-etrations of the Bruins' territory. Young said, "In the first half, our girls played with possession." posses-sion." Maddie Giles kicked up a lot of Viking attacks during the first period. Giles' kicks would often launch the ball way past the halfway line, and Sam Daly would dribble the ball into good areas for shots. Steals by Ashleigh Warner and Olivia Hoddy helped Smith in delaying the Vikings from getting get-ting onto the scoreboard first. Nevertheless, Mountain View could not prevent Pleasant Grove from securing the first lead. During the start of the second half, the Vikings had Kenedii Williams replace Daniels Dan-iels in the goalie spot. The replacement re-placement kept the Bruins from getting anything into the. net during the period's first 20 minutes, min-utes, frustrating Warner, Carli Wright, and other Mountain View starters. Meanwhile, five minutes into the second half, Johnson John-son scored a goal for Pleasant Grove. Young said, "After we had scored that goal, we simply gave up playing aggressively. The Bruins smelt a let-up, and they took advantage of it. They kept the ball on the Pleasant Grove side as often as the Vikings Vi-kings did on Mountain View's territory. In the final 20 minutes, Mountain View sunk its claws into the momentum and snatched it away from the Vikings. The snatch occurred when Hoddy tied the game through a shot she booted in from just outside the Viking penalty box. Chris-tensen Chris-tensen broke the tie a few minutes min-utes later. Seconds before the final whistle sounded, Warner booted in the third Bruin goal. The Vikings will open their home season with a 7 p.m. game against the Keams Cougars on August 18. |