Staff report
SIDNEY — A dramatic goal by Kaitlyn Davis with just three minutes to go evened the score against Wayne Thursday night. But the visiting Lady Warriors scored just two minutes into overtime to bring Sidney’s season to an end in Division 1 Sectional soccer action at the high school.
The loss finished the Lady Jackets’ campaign at 12-5-1. Wayne advances to the sectional finals to face No. 2-seeded Beavercreek.
“While it’s not the way we wanted our season to end, I’m proud of how hard some of my players played and continued to battle through the end,” said Sidney coach Stacey Goffena. “Kaitlyn earned player of the year honors, and goalkeeper Sylvia Hudson led the entire GWOC in shutouts with 13.
“We had an opportunity to end it right at the start of overtime with our two forwards having perfect opportunities to close the game out. But we could not get it in the net,” she added.
Wayne then played a ball to the back side of the field that was not being marked properly and got the game-winner just two minutes into the overtime, the coach said.
Wayne took a 1-0 lead 20 minutes into the second half on another backside goal, and it appeared that would be enough. But Davis put in a free kick from 35 yards out to even the score with just three minutes left in regulation.
“I knew once Kaitlyn hit it, it was going in,” said Goffena. “She’s such a competitor and did not want to be defeated.”
VOLLEYBALL
Lady Jackets fall
in sectional play
CENTERVILLE — Sidney ran up against top-seeded and unbeaten Troy in the Division 1 Sectional Volleyball Tournament, and came up short in losing 3-0.
The scores were 25-17, 25-22, 25-11 and the verdict gave the Lady Jackets a final 10-14 record this season.
Adrienna Cook and Ally Spangler both had six kills and Amanda Thomas added five to go with three solo blocks. Carrie Nuss had 18 assists and Grace Shell finished with nine digs.
Minster loses
in D-4 tourney
MINSTER — Minster saw its season come to an end Thursday at home in a 3-2 loss to Delphos St. John’s in D-4 district tourney play at home.
Delphos won the first game 25-22, Minster the second 25-11, Delphos the third 25-21, Minster the fourth 25-17 and Delphos the fifth 15-13.
Minster finishes the campaign 14-10.
Katie Wuebker had 16 kills, 13 digs and three aces for the Lady Wildcats. Jordyn Heitbrink had 13 kills and 19 digs, and Paige Thobe added 10 kills.
Hayley Baumer finished with 48 assists.
Hannah Schmitmeyer led the defense with 22 digs and LeAnn Huelsman added 18.
Delphos advances to the semifinals to face top-seeded New Bremen Tuesday at Van Wert at 6:15.
Lady Rangers win
tourney game 3-0
NEW KNOXVILLE — Third-seeded New Knoxville took care of visiting Crestview in D-4 District volleyball action Thursday night, 3-0, the scores being 25-19, 25-21, 25-18.
The Lady Rangers are now 14-9 on the season and face Marion Local at Van Wert on Tuesday in the semifinals at 8 p.m. Marion Local won 3-0 over Ottoville Thursday.
Rachel Leffel and Shayna Bierlein both had eight kills, Madison Lammers seven and Caitlin Lammers and Jenna Schwieterman six kills each.
Leffel added 20 digs, Kenzie Schroer had 17 digs and 35 assists, Abby Lageman had 19 digs and Ashlyn Miller 13 digs.
Bierlein, Schwieterman and Sarah Hostetter all had nine digs.
Top seed New
Bremen advances
NEW BREMEN — The top-seeded New Bremen Lady Cardinals advanced to the D-4 district semifinals with a 3-0 win over Wayne Trace Thursday at home.
The scores were 25-23, 25-13, 25-10 and the win put Bremen at 15-9 on the season.
Devon Heitkamp had 14 kills to lead the Lady Cardinals at the net, and Paige Jones added a dozen.
Jones and Madison Pape both served three aces, and Pape also had 31 assists. Alyse Clune had four kills and nine digs.
