SCIAC Success Continues For Athenas

In the first game of the second round of SCIAC play, the CMS Athenas beat the Whittier Poets 6-0.  The Athenas are still undefeated (7-0) in SCIAC play and 10-3-0 overall.

The Athenas came out hard right off the back and put two in the back of the net in the first eight minutes.  Brittney Watson (JR, Sammamish, WA) put a through-ball into Rebecca Pedroza (JR, Las Vegas, Nevada), who laid it back to Megan Kum (SR, Pasadena) who finished from the top of the 6-yard line.  Two minutes later, Ashley Green (JR, Seattle, WA) dribbled to the end line and put a cross in to Watson, who put a low, hard ball into the back of the net from the top of the 18-yard box.  For the next thirty minutes, the Athenas struggled with repeated offsides calls, before Carolyn Campbell (FR, Irvine) put one in unassisted in the 35th minute.  Five minutes later, Amanda Drasny (JR, San Jose) lobbed one in from 30 yards out to put the Athenas up 4-0.  With just a few minutes to go in the half, Kelsey Rose (SO, Irvine) sent a ball in from the outside, where Drasny passed it off to Katherine Jarvis (SR, Monrovia [pictured]) who finished, to put the Athenas up 5-0 at half.

The Athenas had a slow second half, again struggling with the offsides trap, but pulled out their 6th and final goal in the 87th minute.  Heather Marra (JR, Phoenix, AZ) dropped a ball back to Jarvis, who crushed the ball into the back of the net.  Keeper Erica Jones (SO, Tempe, AZ) earned the shutout and the Athenas won 6-0 over the Poets.

According to the latest NSCAA rankings, the Athenas are again ranked 15th in the nation and 2nd in the West for this week.  CMS hosts Pomona-Pitzer (5-4-2 overall and 9th in the West) on Wednesday, October 10th at 7 pm.