For the Mountain Mail
The Lady Warrior soccer team weathered Roswell’s big school tournament winning two of three games. Socorro lost its first game of the tournament to Class 5A Carlsbad 0-3 on Friday. They went on to defeat Class 4A schools Roswell 7-4 and Silver City 5-1 on Saturday to finish fifth. Carlsbad won the tournament.
Socorro (5-1) will host Belen on Thursday, Sept. 10
Socorro coach Mitch Carrejo said that against Carlsbad his girls started out sluggish. The girls got there just an hour before game time after the long bus ride. He said the girls still played well. The game was scoreless until six minutes left in the first half. It was an own goal a defender bounced off of the goal keeper.
In the second half Socorro had seven shots on goal and Carlsbad had 10.
“We were pretty even in the second half,” Carrejo said. “They kind of wore us down a little bit there at the end. They had a bunch of subs and we didn’t have too many.”
Victoria Lopez, Maria Deters and Jennell Higgs were able to attend the Carlsbad game. Carrejo said that the game went back and forth and no team seemed to have the advantage. With 15 minutes left in the game, Socorro misplayed the ball on defense and Carlsbad scored again and their third goal was another own goal.
At 10 a.m. Saturday, Socorro went against Roswell High. Socorro scored two minutes into the game. After that Roswell scored twice and Socorro countered with two more goals and led 3-2 at the half.
“In the second half we came out aggressive and tried to get the ball to a forward in a breakaway situation,” Carrejo said. “We came out and scored four more goals against them.”
Socorro led 7-2 with about 15 minutes left in the game. Carrejo said that he played his bench for experience and to save the starters for their next game. Roswell scored twice. Socorro won 7-4.
Socorro played Silver next who had lost to Clovis and defeated Goddard.
“We came out real strong against Silver,” Carrejo said. “We pretty much dominated the whole game.”
Socorro scored four goals in the first half and led 4-1 at the half. Carrejo said that in the second half he rested his starters and used the lead to further the experience of his subs en route to a 5-1 victory
“I think that we were probably the second best team in the tournament,” Carrejo said. “Unfortunately we got put in the same pool as Roswell and Carlsbad. Carlsbad won the championship game by beating Clovis 8-0.”
Socorro’s only loss this year was to Class 5A Carlsbad.
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