Published: August 28, 2007 11:28 pm         

Patriots roll past Vikings in boys, girls soccer

TERRE HAUTE — Picking out the busiest players in Tuesday evening’s high school soccer doubleheader at Terre Haute North was easy.

West Vigo goalkeepers Lisa Compton and Derek Edwards were under constant assault throughout the girl-boy doubleheader as the host Patriots eased their way to 9-0 and 12-1 victories.

“Lisa Compton did an excellent job in goal,” coach Ashley Luken of the Vikings said after seeing her keeper face 51 shots in the first match.

“Derek Edwards is amazing,” echoed coach Juan Montanez of the West Vigo boys team. “What matters is how many [of North’s 70 shots] he stopped. He was by far the best player on our team tonight.”

Kelly Meggs had three goals and two assists for North in the girls match, while Andy Khudayev had a first-period hat trick — he, like the rest of the Patriot starters, played just the first 40 minutes — for North’s boys.

North’s girls actually started slowly. Meggs was able to score at 36:38 of the first period after taking a long pass from Lindsay Thomas and then assisted on Kayla Fauber’s goal, passing it back to the kicker on a corner kick with Fauber scoring from a near-impossible angle near the corner. But the barrage of shots hadn’t actually started.

Then coach Emily Knight of the Patriots moved Caitlin Wulf from sweeper to a forward position, and suddenly Compton was in a shooting gallery. Wulf and Meggs combined for a pair of goals 32 seconds apart late in the half to break the match open.

“[Wulf] really gets the ball going and sets the tempo of the game,” Knight said later. “After we got one shot off, [the Patriots] could feel it.”

Knight used seemingly dozens of players as North launched 31 second-period shots, and was happy to see all of them contribute.

“Our bench did well today. That shows the potential we have — for the season and for next year,” she said. “And I was really pleased how well we played as a team.”

“It’s the same thing every game,” said Luken. “A lot of girls were off injured, we’re low in numbers and we wear out too quick.”

The Vikings got less than half a match from sweeper Sarah Klotz, midfielder Chandra Cortez and defender Jocelyn Gregg, and forward Lindsey Cates battled illness; that’s also a list of the Vikings’ best and most experienced players.

“They play hard to the end, though, no matter what the score is,” Luken noted.

Coach John Welch of the Patriots told his extremely deep team before the boys match that no one would play more than one period, and the players responded with an effort in the 95-degree weather that had the Vikings back on their heels.

“We told them each team had 40 minutes,” Welch confirmed afterward. “They’re in good shape. They’ve worked hard quite a bit.”

Edwards kept it close for awhile before Khudayev scored his first goal at the 31:19 mark; passes from Connor Lentz to Roberto Pasqualini to Tyler Lucas set up the score. At 22:50, Pasqualini scored on an assist from Eduardo Bohrer, a score set up by Lucas’s takeaway and run down the sideline.

Khudayev converted a long pass from Alex Walter to make it 3-0, and then the Patriots got spectacular. The fourth score came when Lentz launched a long free kick from near midfield that was headed home perfectly by Lucas, and the fifth was a header by Khudayev, who converted a cross from the sideline by Joe Welch.

“North is really well organized and well coached, and they have a lot of skills on the ball,” Montanez said after the match. “We wish them luck in their conference.”

North’s second unit scored 12 seconds into the second period when Jordan Evans converted a through ball from Jacob Price, but the Viking effort was more spirited for the last 40 minutes. West Vigo scored near the midpoint of the second period when Trevor Kelsheimer won a ball near midfield and hammered a long shot that got went in off the hands of one of the three goalkeepers the Patriots employed during the evening.

“[The Vikings] didn’t give up, and we got one [goal] back,” Montanez said. “Maybe we showed enough spirit to get a win down the road.”



Girls

West Vigo 0 0 — 0

Terre Haute North 5 4 — 9

THN — Kelly Meggs (Lindsay Thomas)

THN — Kayla Fauber (Meggs)

THN — Caitlin Wulf (Meggs)

THN — Meggs (Wulf)

THN — Madeline Whitaker

THN — Alexa McFadden

THN — Thomas

THN — Fauber (Chloe Laubert)

THN — Meggs

Next matches — North (2-4) plays Thursday at Greencastle. West Vigo (0-4-1) has a home match Sept. 5 against Terre Haute South.



Boys

West Vigo 0 1 — 1

Terre Haute North 6 6 — 12

THN — Andy Khudayev (Tyler Lucas)

THN — Roberto Pasqualini (Eduardo Bohrer)

THN — Khudayev (Alex Walter)

THN — Lucas (Connor Lentz)

THN — Khudayev (Joe Welch)

THN — Lucas (Walter)

THN — Jordan Evans (Jacob Price)

THN — Evans (Ben Ramseier)

THN — Garrett Sevigny

WV — Trevor Kelsheimer

THN — Ja.Price (Luke Lakstins)

THN — Ja.Price penalty kick

THN — Lakstins

Next matches — North (2-2) has Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference home matches at 10 a.m. Saturday against Center Grove and at 2 p.m. Saturday against Indianapolis North Central. West Vigo (0-4) has a home match Thursday against Northview.